Community engagement and resilience in emergency management

Zombie Management Add on Richard

Richard, I appreciate your comments and strongly resonate with your ideas about the individual and his responsibility to save himself. I think others need to adopt the approach the we have taken on this idea and derive a new idea of the word community. To me community is should be more liberal and voluntary that what is presented in today's culture. This is unfortunate but allows us to learn and grow from these ideas.

Raymond

Ray, I enjoyed reading your comments on resilience and its relationship to emergency management and community itself. You seem to bring out the best qualities of the ideas of resilience in your comments, and I strongly agree with its importance in sustaining and eventually surviving in an emergency or disaster. I believe that the source of resilience is what makes us human and urges us to continue to grow and unfold into what we are to become. Resilience is great tool when honed with discipline and purpose.

Bryan

Biedrzycke & Koltun (2012) argued "Deeper understanding of community social and economic dynamics will allow for better coordination with other emerging federal agency initiatives and policies. This entails refocusing on language, culture, socio-economic, geographic, and community status to attain true "whole of community" engagement." Bryan, it seems that you tend to agree with this idea as well as it is expressed in your comments. What I like best about what you have to express, is the idea of incorporating patience into community engagement. Current society tends to rush to conclusions, often to the dismay of its members. All we need is just a little patience and things will work out fine.

Derek

Derek, I think it is important that you stressed the federal tendency to micromanage when it is dealing with community engagement and successful outreach. By singling out the federal aspects of the problem and most likely the true root of many of the problems, you bring some well needed awareness to the imbalance that seems to be occurring between local and federal authorities. Like Biedrzycki (2012) pointed out, we all have a role to play in this game and that only a holistic approach with total and comprehensive understanding will get us anywhere. Perhaps it may be time to redefine what being a citizen is and what responsibilities it entails to guarantee freedom.

Gary

Gary, your comments on whole community were very detailed, reasonable and well thought out. I appreciate much of what you have to say. You seem to take great effort in expressing in a very deliberate manner, the means and ways that the concept can be integrated with a very systematic approach. It appears that you don't fully define the term genuine and authentic and you seem to ignore these more delicate ideas. I do however fully agree with your concluding ideas on the All Hazards Approach and how it is lacking in any comprehensive application.

Derek

Derek, even though I disagree with the philosophy and intent of a zombie apocalypse emergency plan, your summation of such a plan is very good and addressed many of the key issues that would need to happen, even though it is most likely impossible. You hit on all the key agencies and did not take the assignment too seriously which made it an enjoyable read, thanks for the effort.

Bryan

Bryan, thanks for making me laugh with your comments about the zombie apocalypse plan. You really emphasized the role of the individual family unit and its role in protecting itself. I agree that the small unit survival rate will be better if this plan is followed and the proper kits are assembled. While I find the efforts dedicated to such an attack are wasteful and dishonest, your plan is simple and addressed a key point that the government cannot be relied on if such a disaster was to happen.