**5. Conclusion**

Disaster management is challenged by the difficulty we have as people and organizations to think about future, uncertain events. The complexity and chaos of disasters further complicate the tasks of planning, preparing, and responding. The more complex the event, the more an organization must adapt and collaborate with other organizations. This frameworks of resource management in disasters will guide organizations in their disaster preparedness activities. We have touched on some applications of these principles to hospitals and resource-poor environments. From an accurate understanding of what constitutes a disaster, education and training will more likely be effective — directed to the right people, developing the right skills in the right places.

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**Author details**

Jared Bly1,2\*, Louis Hugo Francescutti1

1 University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

2 Royal Roads University, Victoria, Canada

provided the original work is properly cited.

\*Address all correspondence to: jrdbly@gmail.com

3 Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, Edmonton, Canada

© 2020 The Author(s). Licensee IntechOpen. This chapter is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium,

and Danielle Weiss3

*Disaster Management: A State-of-the-Art Review DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.94489*

*Disaster Management: A State-of-the-Art Review DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.94489*

*Natural Hazards - Impacts, Adjustments and Resilience*

• *Who is the exercise intended to benefit?*

• *Is training for emergency or disaster?*

• *Is the possibility of psychological effects addressed?*

• *Is collaboration being trained in disaster exercises?*

• *Is there an adequate and effective debriefing?*

• *Is the exercise overly complex?*

• *Are there clear objectives?*

*Questions to ask to make disaster training effective.*

exercise increases with reflection individually and collectively [21, 44, 51]. The utility of an effective and adequate debrief cannot be underemphasized (**Table 1**).

*He was just shaking his head. "Forget this dream and it might as well be three days till the next one. Be the same dream all over again unless you keep this one in* 

Disaster management is challenged by the difficulty we have as people and organizations to think about future, uncertain events. The complexity and chaos of disasters further complicate the tasks of planning, preparing, and responding. The more complex the event, the more an organization must adapt and collaborate with other organizations. This frameworks of resource management in disasters will guide organizations in their disaster preparedness activities. We have touched on some applications of these principles to hospitals and resource-poor environments. From an accurate understanding of what constitutes a disaster, education and training will more likely be effective — directed to the right people, developing the right

*see another one like that for a hundred years."*

*mind."*

**Table 1.**

**5. Conclusion**

skills in the right places.

*Seems like a dream. A dream I'd like to forget. I said as much to Raj, adding "won't* 

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