Summary and Final Tasks
Completion of this lesson increased your understanding of:
- Cutter's concept of the "All Hazards" approach to disaster management.
- Social justice issues in the disaster management process.
- Federal disaster planning and response efforts including the NRP and NIPP, as well as the roles of DHS in Homeland Security and DOD in Homeland Defense and Civil Support.
- The capabilities and limitations of geospatial intelligence in support of the disaster management process.
- How geospatial intelligence can be of value to the first responder.
- How geospatial intelligence for disaster management compares with other national security applications.
Looking Ahead
Next week is a case study of Hurricane Katrina capped off by your third discussion forum. It should be quite interesting as several of you were involved in Katrina. In our next lesson we are going to consider:
- The use of intelligence and especially geospatial intelligence in the planning for, and response to Hurricane Katrina.
- A synthesis of the ideas of previous lessons to critique the role of intelligence and especially geo-spatial intelligence in relation to Hurricane Katrina.
- The social justice implications for geospatial intelligence applications in Hurricane Katrina.
- Future applications of geospatial intelligence for disaster management.