NEW THINKING IS NEEDED

• Broader thinking
• multi-disciplinary
• multi-hazard
• multi-institutional
• international cooperation
  
  
• Joint planning and sharing of resourcesamong regions, states and nations
• mutual planning and mutual aid for response
• county level and sub-state planning; multi-state regional earthquake consortia
  
  
• Regional and Bilateral organizational arrangements
  
  
• More research, especially empirical case studies
• on technological hazards triggered by large-scale natural disasters
• case examples of what works and what does not (policies, programs, organizational arrangements)
• cost-effective ways to deal with hazards/disasters

• monitor and evaluate efforts; risk assessment and risk management techniques, economic analyses, behavioral studies
  

• More and better risk assessment and risk management efforts
  
  
• More training
• in substantive areas of emergency management
• in telecommunications techniques, use of computers, Internet and Intranets