Getting Down to Business: An Action Plan for Public-Private Disaster Response Coordination: The Report of the Business Response Task Force
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The 2005 hurricane season and its prolonged crisis aftermath demonstrated beyond doubt that the
United States is not adequately prepared to deal with major catastrophes, whether natural or man-made.
Coming nearly four years after the 9/11 attacks, the inadequate local, state and federal government
responses to Hurricane Katrina put the entire nation on alert that America has many problems to
overcome before being truly ready to mount a reinforced and efficient disaster response.
Invited by the senior leadership of both the United States Senate and U.S. House of Representatives to offer advice for integrating the resources of Americaā€™s vast private sector into its disaster response plans, in June 2006 BENS formed a Task Force to recommend to the U.S. Government steps to systematically integrate the capabilities of the private sectorā€”principally those of the business communityā€”into a comprehensive national disaster response mechanism.
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