Emergency Management Recovery Overview

Emergency Management Recovery Overview Student’s Name Institution Affiliation Course Name & Code Instructor’s Name Date Emergency Management Recovery Overview Recovery in the framework of emergency management refers to getting a community back to its state before a disaster occurs or enhancing the ability of a society to cope with and rebound from future emergencies. The recovery phase entails rebuilding demolished structures, resettling the affected persons, assisting in some of their needs, and providing solutions to the social, economic, political, and environmental effects this disaster is bound to leave behind. For example, if the calamity is a hurricane, it means reconstruction of homes, fixing power lines, and offering financial and counseling to families affected by the natural disaster. Coordinated by federal, state, and local agencies, NGOs, and the private sector, these efforts involve partnerships between all stakeholders (FEMA, n.d.-a). This phase ensures that people are ready to handle subsequent disasters even as they address their current needs with solutions that will not repeat the same problem in the future. Recovery's Role in Emergency Management Recovery is one of the four phases of disaster management: mitigation, preparedness, response, and, last but not least, recovery. These phases work as a cycle that effectively helps communities reduce disaster risks and impacts. Recovery is more than the response phase; it involves the next phase, which emphasizes the restoration process for the impacted people. For example, the response phase aims to ensure that displaced people are provided with temporary shelters, while the recovery phase focuses more on providing them with permanent structures – a house. Further, it allows one to incorporate measures to lower susceptibility to future adverse events, such as modifying the building codes or developing flood-protective structures (Combaz, 2014). Therefore, Recovery in this cycle considers the impacts arising from disasters and includes rebuilding resilient communities against future similar event risks. Disaster Impacts and Assistance Disasters are not limited to loss of property, social and economic losses and gains, and psychological effects. For instance, some infrastructural issues like storms or earthquakes may lead to denying essential utilities such as electricity, potable water, or movement. The economic effects frequently do not stop at infrastructure damage but can hurt local economies for many years. These outcomes are desired to be prevented by supporting struggling groups exceptionally and merging various solutions meant to restore the economically affected areas. Another way is to understand the Federal Emergency Management Agency FEMA's key role in providing money to rebuild houses and shops and find the victims' temporary homes. Local governments and NGOs also add to these services by focusing on rendering services specific to the needs of particular communities (“HHS Disaster Human Services Concept of Operations”, 2014). National Response Framework (NRF) and the Disaster Human Services Concept of Operations (CONOPS) ensure that these recoveries will go through streamlined processes across local, state, federal, and other sectors of society (“HHS Disaster Human Services Concept of Operations”, 2014). Issues in Recovery Nonetheless, enormous difficulties can be met during recovery, such as fraud, environmental issues, and disparities in the allocation of resources. As in this case, fraudsters always take advantage of the disaster recovery programs by presenting fake requests, taking the resources from where they are supposed to go. However, strict supervision and monitoring measures must be introduced to eliminate this problem. Env...