AAR5220- Urban Contingency Planning and Practice
Disaster management department (DMA) (Trondheim Kommune): The Trondheim kommune in the form of disaster management authority is the closest stockholder to the action. They are tasked with on-site coordination of relief effort during a crisis, in this case the flood, as their staff is the main workforce behind crisis management. The department is the main crisis authority, that all local coordination goes through as they provide both the expertise in term of local knowledge and assessment of weak spots and main risks, but also coordinate all rescue efforts between the different agencies like fire department, the EMTs and the police force in addition to activating and supervising emergency procedures and plans. The DMA is also the main stakeholder when it comes to the creation of targeted contingency plans as it’s the central authority that analyses risks, copping capacity and resilience and is expected to have plans and safeguards in place to deal with hazards and limit their impact to avoid disasters (Lillestol & Rykkja, 2016).
Figure 12: The institutional stakeholders and their dynamic.
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