COORDINATION IN EMERGENCY
RESPONSE MANAGEMENT
Developing a framework to analyze coordination patterns
occurring in the emergency response life cycle.
Emergency Response Management (ERM) enables and supports
emergency response operations across organizational, jurisdictional, and geographical boundaries. Recognizing the growing
importance of ERM in countering both natural and manmade
hazards, the U.S. government ordered (via Homeland Security
Presidential Directive- 5) the establishment, at the federal level, of
a National Incident Management System (NIMS) [ 4]. The NIMS prescribes
institutional response guidelines that help in establishing rule structures and
developing a normative environment with defined tasks regarding what
should be done during a response. Howitt and Leonard [ 6] point out that while