Within the Discussion Board area, write 5 paragraphs that respond to the following questions:

• 1. How important do you feel the mitigation phase is in emergency management? Explain.
• 2. What do you think are the most important operations to conduct within the mitigation phase? Explain.
• 3. What is the role of the emergency management community in the pre-disaster phase? Explain.
• 4. Should emergency managers be working with planning boards and community planners? Why or why not?
• 5. If emergency managers were going to work on the planning boards, how should they do so? What are the best practices?