Textbooks: Haddow, G. D., Bullock, J. A., & Coppola, D. P. (2021). Emergency management (7th edition). Butterworth-Heinemann. Huder, R. (2012). Disaster Operations and Decision Making. Wiley. Chapters 2,3 and 4 Meyers, S. A. (2014). SWAT operations and critical incidents: Why people die. OpTac International, Inc. Writing Assignment 3: According to FEMA, decision making and problem solving are closely related activities. Problem solving is a set of activities designed to analyze a situation systematically and generate, implement, and evaluate solutions. However, decision making the mechanism for making choices at each step of the problem-solving process. For this assignment, there are two parts, First, read through the handouts from the FEMA Independent Study course IS-241.B Decision Making and Problem Solving, then, using the textbook, select a scenario from Chapters 3-8 to answer the following questions: 1. Provide a brief overview of the scenario selected. 2. Identify the problem-solving activities used to help the officers make good decisions. 3. Make one recommendation which might have improved the outcome of the scenario. Please note, your work must be supported with references and intext citations. This assignment should be approximately 2 pages in length, 12 font, double-spaced.
