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Disaster Risk Management For Coastal Tourism Destinations Responding To Climate Change A Practical Guide For Decision Makers TIPS: Assessing Damage. If not adequately planned for, damage assessment can be overlooked. This should be considered an integral element of disaster response and if done well, provides a situational awareness for effective disaster operations, as well as, setting the stage for recovery and reconstruction. Select individuals, perhaps from local an event to conduct rapid damage assessments of homes, businesses, infrastructure and environmental impacts. Identifying risk reduction opportunities pre-disaster that could be implemented in a post-disaster scenario; and, Ensuring mechanisms to better integrate hazard mitigation into long-term reconstruction. Consider the creation of a recovery task force that could be mobilized post-disaster to streamline recovery while incorporating more sustainable and disaster resistant reconstruction practices. 10) Plan Revision and Updating: The plan must be viewed as a living document – one that must be monitored over time, evaluated for its continued relevance and updated periodically to address growth in the destination, along with changes in key personnel and institutional structures. Some key considerations include: An annual review should be the minimum frequency for updating the plan (minor revisions and adjustments) and one that precedes high tourist seasons or periods when hazard events occur (if predictable); A periodic cycle for major plan revisions should also be included and, depending on local circumstances, might range from 3 to 5 years; and, A lead agency, either the local emergency management agency or tourism ministry (or department) or both, and their key personnel should assign responsibility for routine monitoring and updating of the plan. 72 | Developing The Disaster Preparedness Plan
6 Implementing The Preparedness Plan 6 6.1 Introduction The previous Chapter discussed in detail the procedures for formulating and writing the disaster preparedness plan, including use of the all important stakeholder participatory network. The truest test of whether a preparedness plan will achieve its goal of preserving lives and property in vulnerable communities depends upon the extent to which the actors involved know their functions and are able to carry them out, can make decisions in high-stress situations quickly and effectively and arrive at the desired outcome with minimal consequences; and the level of awareness of the plan and its requirements at the destination. The scale and devastation of destinations in South Asia from the December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, and of New Orleans, USA from Hurricane Katrina provided many lessons. These events caused mass casualties, huge property losses and created situations of highly charged emotion. They were very demanding on emergency coordinators, responders, and volunteers. Some of the lessons emerging from these disasters highlighted the following areas as key to responding to disasters: Agility and speed of the disaster response network: the disaster response effort brought much needed relief and consolation where it was nimble, agile and expeditious in attending to vulnerable populations. A major factor communities, networks and the terrain and their ability to make decisions quickly when situations changed. Multi-agency responses: the network of agencies with various resources and expertise served to share the burdens and costs of responding to an emergency to save lives, providing assistance and to transport relief supplies where most needed. This is an especially important lesson for tourism destinations. The Coordinating Group should not overlook the importance home. Adequate and disciplined staff: Disaster response is predicated on a disaster events will not necessarily be able to cope with high stress conditions over long periods, without opportunities for rest and recuperation. The response effort must therefore be adequately staffed in order to rotate tours of workers and volunteers. Hotels unaffected by the disaster should also be prepared to accommodate emergency workers and volunteers. A cooperating and properly informed media: A dedicated effort to treat the media as partners and conduits of accurate and timely information is a hallmark of a successful and disciplined disaster response organization. Otherwise, the media will serve as an unwelcome distraction to the response effort. 73
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