Mitigation and recovery are also important, and they fall outside the purview of emergency management. Emergency managers and their allied professions typically have little or no ability to control where and how development occurs, standards to which new construction is held, enforcement of these standards, or long-term recovery activities after a disaster, which can take years.
Not to blame, but it’s a misnomer to say unimportant for EMAs not to understand basics of mitigation and recovery.
