Emergency management is successful when multiple agencies can collaborate and communicate effectively and efficiently. In this assignment, you connect interagency collaboration theories to practice in a case study based around a natural or human-made disaster that occurred in your area. Content to be on Storm Uri in Texas. The three interagency interactions that would be investigated for the effectiveness of communication and collaboration are the Homeland Security and Emergency Management(HSEM), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT). Write a paper in which you analyze the various government agency components involved in resolving a disaster event in your area. Address the following in your Summative Assessment: Interagency Communication Case Study paper: o Provide an overview of the natural or human-made disaster that occurred in your geographic region. o Describe the emergency management steps that were taken. o Discuss the interagency collaboration theories that can be applied to this scenario, and how they apply. o Explain the effectiveness of the relationships between the government agencies involved in the event. o Describe how the effected agencies communicated. o Explain how interagency collaboration was achieved.
