A Public Sector Practitioner's Perspective on Public Private Partnerships

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Author(s): Erinn N. Harris (Baltimore City Fire Department, USA)
Copyright: 2015
Pages: 10
Source title: Emergency Management and Disaster Response Utilizing Public-Private Partnerships
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Marvine Paula Hamner (LeaTech, LLC, USA), S. Shane Stovall (True North Emergency Management, USA), Doaa M. Taha (GMI, Ltd, USA)and Salah C. Brahimi (GMI, Ltd, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8159-0.ch004

Keywords: Business Science Reference / Crisis Response and Management / Emergency & Disaster Management / Government & Law

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Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) are something that greatly benefit the public sector and should be encouraged in as many ways as possible. That is, the more participation that can be generated from entities in the public and the private sectors, then the better mitigation, preparedness, and response activities will be. The main concerns are the management of realistic expectations and of all involved entities upholding their promises. This chapter discusses how proper training and transparency of the actions can diminish the risks associated with PPPs. This chapter also discusses how open communication helps maintain realistic expectations, and how maintaining realistic expectations will result in less reliance being placed on any one business or agency. This will lead to more educated people responding faster, which in turn ultimately leads to the original goal of emergency managers (i.e. working yourself out of a job).

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