Volunteers in disaster response

Scholarly Project Topics

Paper length should be approximately 3000 words, but substance is more important than volume. Use recent articles from peer-reviewed journals as well as textbooks. Texts are often out of date soon after published. Expect to use no fewer than 10 references.

A few thoughts are included in parentheses to give you some early guidance, but you should not limit your paper/project to these ideas.

Here is the topic.

1. Volunteers in disaster response – What are the rewards and the risks? (Consider advantages to using volunteers in response along with challenges such as training, legal concerns, personal exposure, insurance, integration into ICS, etc.Be sure to reference important legislation such as the Volunteer Protection Act).

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Disasters refer to unexpected incidents or accidents that are natural and cause suffering, loss of property and damage, or even death to human beings (Perry, and Ronald, 2015). They include occurrences such as famine, floods, wars, disease outbreaks, earthquakes, among others. Disaster response, therefore, refers to the measures or decisions that are taken to contain the disastrous occurrence or reduce its effects such as loss of life and property and to restore order and return things to the normal way they were and also…

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