Assignment Description

You are the emergency manager in a city of 200,000 people in the Northeastern United States. You have been asked to serve as a panel member at this year's National Emergency Management Association meeting in Little Rock, Arkansas.

As a panel member, you are expected to give a 15-minute presentation on emergency management practices in other countries and respond to questions for 15 minutes.

Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400-600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas:

• What information will you include in your presentation? Explain.

• Why do you feel the specific information that you are including is important to U.S. emergency management? Explain.

• What do you see as the 3 most significant emergency management challenges outside of the United States? Why?

• What promising strategies or tactics are likely to help effectively address those challenges?

Responses to Other Students: Respond to at least 2 of your fellow classmates with at least a 100-word reply about their Primary Task

Response regarding items you found to be compelling and enlightening. To help you with your discussion, please consider the following questions:

• What did you learn from your classmate's posting?

• What additional questions do you have after reading the posting?

• What clarification do you need regarding the posting?

• What differences or similarities do you see between your posting and other classmate's postings ?

Assignment Objectives

• Discuss the different approaches to Homeland Security and Emergency Management employed by other nations.

400-600 words