10 Strategies for Improving Emergency Management

Tim Riecker wrote the following, 10 Strategies for Improving Emergency Management, which was also carried on Lucien Canton's publication/update. Much of it I totally agree with — with some exceptions.

A few things to say "Amen" to include:

• Incentivizing Mitigation — there aren't many sticks to make this work anyway
• Embracing Technology — it is the 21st century
• Disaster Recovery — it is more than the FEMA programs, I call it the bridge not yet crossed by most emergency management programs
• Regional — the world does not end at your jurisdictional boundaries
• Scholar Practitioners — keep learning until you are dead
• Emergency Management is a social science — attend the Natural Hazards Workshop this July in Boulder, Colo.
• Think strategy, not tactics — my May 2019 IAEM Bulletin Disaster Zone Column will be about relationships
• Private citizens won't prepare — if emergency managers are not prepared, why do you expect citizens to become prepared?

Good job, Tim! Yes, ICS training does suck! What difference have all those online courses made?