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Strategic Planning in Emergency Management: Evaluating the Impacts on Local Program Quality

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  • Manning Scott Robert

    (Jacksonville State University, Department of Emergency Management, 700 Pelham Road North, Jacksonville, AL, 36265-2796, USA)

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This study examined the strategic planning practices of county-level emergency management agencies (EMAs), with a specific focus on strategic planning adoption and its relationship to local program quality. The study utilized a descriptive, cross-sectional survey design to collect planning- and program-related data from more than 300 county-level EMAs across the United States. The study findings revealed that most of the county EMAs included in the final sample had previously engaged in strategic planning activities, with nearly all of them continuing to use strategic planning as part of their general management practice. The study findings further revealed that strategic planning had a direct and significant impact on the overall quality of local emergency management programs, and that the strategic planning EMAs had significantly higher mean quality scores across all program dimensions when compared to the non-strategic planning EMAs.

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  • Manning Scott Robert, 2020. "Strategic Planning in Emergency Management: Evaluating the Impacts on Local Program Quality," Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, De Gruyter, vol. 17(3), pages 1-37.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:johsem:v:17:y:2020:i:3:p:37:n:1006
    DOI: 10.1515/jhsem-2019-0051
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