Management Strategies for Disaster Policies

Abstract

Our discussion of past efforts to develop and implement hazard mitigation and preparedness policies leads to fundamental questions about the appropriate modes of shared governance and the need for a federal agency like FEMA. Addressing these questions at the broadest level requires a basic reconsideration of the mandates for federal involvement in the disaster policy arena. A narrower focus to these questions requires a rethinking of the question of how mandates become translated into programs and operations.