Annotated Bibliography (Emergency)

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nEburn, M. (2010, December). International law and disaster response. Monash

nUniversity Law Review, 36(3)

nThis article analyses the process of disaster response especially during natural disasters such as earthquake, fire and floods. The scholar noted that in contemporary world, there is need to develop effective practices, processes and tools to assist in management of natural disasters. An effective process of disaster response offers appropriate technology to assist the response team to analytically deal with different sources of information. In addition, the author argued that it helps to promote teamwork, which plays a crucial role in damage mitigation, survivor assistance and rebuilding.

nThe article suggests that disaster response team should have a rich idea of the issues they are attempting to resolve as well as the practices and processes they intend to use to deal will the problem. Additionally, the team require proper technology which assist them to offer help such as recovery and lifesavings operations to the victims. The application used should be interoperable and cost-effective. Moreover, the article highlighted that search and rescue operations, applications and procedures should adapt swiftly to the changing circumstances. The capacity to use application that adapt rapidly is very beneficial as they assist to protect the lives of victims.

nMost importantly, the scholar recommended that systems of sharing vital knowledge and situational alertness should be given a higher priority. In this regard, it helps humanitarian groups to speedily provide medical supplies, food and other relief services. Furthermore, the article emphasized that more accurate and complete information should be provided to families and communities as the disaster response team search and rescue the victims. Following these operations, the rescue team should analyse information in order to guide the time and procedure of rebuilding.

nReferences

nEburn, M. (2010, December). International law and disaster response. Monash

nUniversity Law Review, 36(3)