AAR5220- Urban Contingency Planning and Practice
We have approached the construction of the contingency plan through a four phase cycle that includes: Response, Recovery, Mitigation and Preparedness. We understand that a contingency plan is not only focused on reducing the risk, but also enhance capacities by looking at the events as opportunities to learn and improve. “Preparing a contingency plan before disasters is essential to increase the capacity of personnel in charge of disaster response and enhance local resilience to disasters” (Ohara et. al., 2018).
These phases are embedded into the different parts of the plan to be described and detailed, and they don’t correspond to a linear model, being interdependent between each other. For example, some actions within the implementation phase could work both as mitigation and recovery measurements.
Figure 2: The ‘comprehensive approach’ to disaster management. Source: Queensland Government, Disaster Management
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