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Annotated Bibliography: Literature Review of National Response Plan
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Annotated Bibliography: Literature Review of National Response Plan
Bennett, D. (2010). State emergency plans: assessing the inclusiveness of vulnerable populations. International Journal of Emergency Management, 7(1), 100-110.
Bennett explores in-depth insights into comparisons of National Response Plan (NRP), the National Response Framework (NRF), and the National Incident Management System (NIMS) to state emergency plans in the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in the context of a vulnerable population. The core aim of the study is to establish if there were fundamental variations between the states’ plans and the national guidelines.
The author notes that FEMA’s effort of adjustment of plans and implementation of new guidelines on management response tends to be ignored during state emergency plans. Thus, recent changes in emergency plans might have had little impact on state emergency plans, especially on vulnerable populations. The majority of states rely on their plan off of the predecessor of the NRF or merely on the NIMS, and the state plans may match the inclusiveness of the NIMS or exceed it. Thus, it appears that the NRF was established to guide states on how to manage emergencies, but there are more inclinations for the states to deploy the NIMS template in the majority of state plans are being modeled after.
The study findings show that one state plan did exceed the NRF in terms of effectiveness, i.e., the State of Florida, which has the Florida Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan (FCEMP). This study suggests that states may not adhere to guidelines and recommendations set by NRF, while NIMS is consistently being used though it was not created as a response plan. NRF and NIMS are supposed to be used together, but in reality, NIMS appears widely used than NRF or older NRP. Bennett postulates that the NIMS might be easier to follow due to consistency, unlike NRF, which is often subjected to various adjustments. Besides, the sates appear to be guided by state demographics and statistics.
The study is quite reliable and consistent due to the suitable use of research methodologies.
Federal Emergency Management Agency (2016).National Response Framework.
NRF is a critical idea in U.S disaster preparedness and response. It provides the blueprint to U.s on how to conduct an all-hazard response. NRF is anchored on flexibility, scalability, and adaptability in terms of coordination structures that align key responsibilities across the nation. The NRF is not only for the federal government but also but for non-governmental and private-sector leadership, and other emergency response management teams.
NRF is essential because it provides emergency response practitioners with tools and structures during disaster response. NRF is an offshoot of previous planning documents in the context of the former Federal Response Plan of 1992, which was inadequate because it tends to highlight the roles and responsibilities of the federal government merely. It is a 9/11 attack that informed major modification. The attack called for universal incident management and respo...