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. Provide an overview of the natural or human-made disaster that occurred in your geographic region
A natural human made disaster that occurred in my geographic was the BP oil spill that occurred back in 2010. At the time, this was the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry. Here, the oil spill had very dramatic impact not only the economic circumstances of the geographic region, but also the marine life with the geographic region. Here, oil and gas prices spiked creating adverse economic circumstances for those throughout the region. This ultimately contributed to income and wealth inequality as consumers were forced to pay more for petroleum-based products. The cost of marine based products such as fish, fish oil, and other forms of seafood also increased. In addition to the economic impact, food chains were heavily disrupted as the oil spill killed millions of forms of marine life. This disrupted the fishing industry as well, causing large amounts of economic job losses within the region. Beaches were also temporarily destroyed as oil was cast on shore making them unusable in terms of swimming. The spill areas itself was host to over 8000 different species of fish, mollusks, and crustaceans.
2. Describe the emergency management steps that were taken.
A number of different agencies were leverage to help clean up the spill, institute new drilling policies, save marine life, and ultimately return the areas back to its pre-spill conditions. First the US Coast Guard helps to establish physical barriers in the ocean to help manager the overall range of the oil spill within the region. In addition, nonprofit Marine Spill Response Corporation helped to clean up nearly 1.4 million gallons of oil dispersed in the ocean. Nonprofit, National Response Corp also helped to the treat the existing oil in the ocean through airplane and helicopter. The American Wildlife Federation also helped to provide beach cleanup services while also helping to save marine life harmed by the oil spill. Essentially, the emergency management steps involved containing the oil spill within a single geographic area. This was done by US Coast Guard and other government agencies. Next, the spill must be cleaned up to mitigate the damage to marine life, ecosystems, and the environment. This was conducted by various profit and not for profit organizations. Finally, the oil that does reach the shores will...…thereby helping to preserve marine life. This was done with collaborations between the Coast Guard and the United States Air Force who were able to disburse chemicals designed to help clean up and degenerate the oil. This was important to help prevent the rippling economic impacts associated with the oil spill on the marine industries. Through proper collaboration, these agencies also help to lower the economic impact on society from the oil spill. These chemicals were spread via helicopter in hopes of maintaining the adequate level of toxicity in the ocean to better conserve the marine life. Finally, the EPA also had to collaborate with politicians and other entities to direct legal action, fines, and legislation aided at preventing another oil spill of this magnitude from occurring again (Gray, 1991).
7. Provide recommendations for how to improve communication and collaboration between agencies in the future
To improve communication and collaboration in the future, government agencies should look to leverage virtual communication such as video conferencing. In addition, technological tools associated with workflow management such as Slack or Asana would also be helpful in these circumstances. Here collaboration can be much improved through seamless communication and less delay associated with communication…
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