Week Four Assignment: Project Paper
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Instructions
This assignment should discuss the following:
How communications, the National Incident Management System (NIMS) and planning are utilized to properly conduct crisis management operations. Include examples of incidents from the case studies in the Howitt and Leonard Managing Crises text and other sources that illustrate your paper’s position. Your writing should identify both the “do’s” and “don’ts” associated with these concepts.
Your paper should draw conclusions and make recommendations concerning lessons to be learned in developing an Emergency Operations Plan and implementing the Incident Command System (ICS).
You must support your report and recommendations by using both the course textbook (Howitt and Leonard, Managing Crises) cases and external research. Your external research must be credible and come from authoritative sources, preferably from peer-reviewed (refereed) publications. You must include a minimum of four (4) course-external references. (Note: If you are unfamiliar with ‘peer-reviewed’ publications, see the module provided in the Course Resources).
All submissions must include the following technical components:
A cover or title page.
Length: A body of text, between 1,500 and 2,000 words (about 6-8 pages double-spaced, 12-point font).
A reference page containing all resources used in your paper. References cited at the end of the report must be cited in text to illustrate how they were used.
Written in APA Style.