Integrating Hazard Mitigation Into Local Planning

After reading all of the executive summary examples and the integration material, please prepare a one to one and half page executive summary on the assigned reading. Points that need to be contained in your executive summary are as follows: 1. Introduction 2. Importance of Integrating Hazard Mitigation Into Local Planning 3. How to Plan Resilient Communities Through Integration 4. Overcoming Obstacles to Successful Integration 5. Case Studies 6. Fact Sheetshe Executive Summary The government and some companies have begun to request executive summaries at the beginning of a long report. An executive summary is a one-page statement of the problem, the purpose of the communication, and a summary of the results, conclusions, and recommendations. The same considerations of readers and situation should guide your executive summaries. Executive Summaries are a kind of informative abstract aimed at busy executives. They comprehensively restate document purpose, scope, methods, findings, results, conclusions, and recommendations; their purpose is to aid the executive to make personnel, funding, or policy decisions. Executive summaries should be written so that they can be read independently of the report: mirroring the report in enough detail to reflect the contents accurately, but concisely enough so that a busy reader can quickly digest its significance. Directions: Write a 1/2-1-page executive summary for your proposal, and hand it in with your paper. Tips for Proceeding: Think about the main points, or sections, of your paper. Remember that you need to include all the major points (ex.: scope, problem, methodology, feasibility, proposed solution), but you will also need to cut out a great deal of detail and background information. Ask a friend to read your summary; are all the points clear? Is your summary enough to give the reader a full understanding of your complete proposal, and in particular of the action(s) recommended? Elements of an executive summary for a research paper Executive summaries for research papers typically contain several components. Your document might differ due to your organization’s requirements, but an executive summary often includes: Introduction: This one-paragraph section provides details about the business and the ideas the report aims to address. Purpose of study: This section details the reasons the study took place. Methods to gather data: This section explains the processes used to accumulate, compile and analyze data during the research study. Findings: This section provides details regarding the study’s results. Recommendations: This section focuses on recommended actions the business can take based on the study’s results. Report limitations: When necessary, this section notes any factors that impeded the study, such as lack of data or information. Implementation: This section provides guidance that the business can use to implement the recommended actions. Conclusion: If your document is longer than two pages, you may add a conclusion to summarize each section’s major points. An executive summary (or management summary, sometimes also called speed read) is a short document or section of a document produced for business purposes. It summarizes a longer report or proposal or a group of related reports in such a way that readers can rapidly become acquainted with a large body of material without having to read it all. It usually contains a brief statement of the problem or proposal covered in the major document(s), background information, concise analysis and main conclusions. It is intended as an aid to decision-making by managers and has been described as the most important part of a business plan.[1][2][3][4] An executive summary was formerly known as a summary. It differs from an abstract in that an abstract will usually be shorter and is typically intended as an overview or orientation rather than being a condensed version of the full document. Abstracts are extensively used in academic research where the concept of the executive summary is not in common usage. “An abstract is a brief summarizing statement… read by parties who are trying to decide whether or not to read the main document”, while “an executive summary, unlike an abstract, is a document in miniature that may be read in place of the longer document”.[5] In common usage the term “executive summary” is a synonym for “summary” and has partially displaced that term.An executive summary is a concise summary of a business report. It restates the purpose of the report, it highlights the major points of the report, and it describes any results, conclusions, or recommendations from the report. An executive summary should be aimed at an audience that is interested in and wants to learn more about the purpose of the main business report. An executive summary should… Be presented as a document that can stand on its own Be one to three pages, depending on the length of the report Note: For academic purposes, a title page is attached to the executive summary. In the professional world, however, this is not required. 2 Sample Executive Summary: Sunco Through partnering with utility companies and other energy regulators, Sunco can make renewable energy a dependable option for our customers. The opportunity, recommendation, timeline, and cost are provided in this report. Opportunity In the absence of a national smart grid, which would increase pricing transparency, as well as enable a host of consumer-producer interactive transactions (Contreras, 2012, p. 645), we here at Sunco, as producers of renewable energy, have run into the problem of getting our services to the customers who demand them. Similarly, our consumers who generate renewable energy on-site from solar panels and wind turbines have also run into the problem of permits, regulations, and service charges that vary from state to state and utility to utility (Ryor, 2014). Currently, the main challenge is convincing local utilities of the economic viability of renewable energy, and since the energy supplied is undifferentiated, the general customer base is unaware that other options exist. Solution Since we, as a company, lack the necessary knowledge and authority to enable our services to be accessed and expedited in a way that would make them economically feasible in the existing system, we seek to engage in a partnership with utilities and regulators around the country to grant our clients exclusive, contractual renewable energy options. These options will standardize and simplify contracting processes and fees for our behind-the-grid In the introduction, the writer quickly (a) states the purpose of the report and (b) highlights the major points within the executive summary and the full business report. Section headings are used to show the different parts of the report. Describe any results, conclusions, or recommendations from the report. 3 customers and require utilities to offer renewable energy alternatives to our on-the-grid customers. Of course, the on-the-grid renewable energy the utilities offer their customers will be supplied by Sunco. In return for these waivers, we will offer to finance energy efficiency renovations for their customers (our customers) homes, which would include weatherizing and sealing, the installation of smart appliances and meters, and use the energy savings generated from these improvements to repay the loan and give the remaining 50% of the savings to the utility and customer to split. So, our customers will not only get the renewable energy they want and the savings at the meter but will also get the updated information systems they will need to optimize their energy use in the future. The utilities will benefit by the lessening of demand on their plants not only through employing our renewable energy resources as an option for their customers but also by decreased consumption at the meter from smart technology (Friedman, 2008). This initiative will increase our companys market share and change the dynamic of the energy industry as a whole since regulators will no longer be giving incentives to utilities for the unlimited power they deliver, but instead for the power they save. Timeline and Costs This solution will take an estimated 5 years to complete, with gradual phases being completed within this time. An investment of $1,000 to $2,000 would be adequate to energy renovate most dwellings to the degree that power savings would be substantial for clients. Because the timeline and the costs are included within the overall business report, a short summary of this information should also be included in the executive summary. When the student refers to ideas from the research, those sentences are cited in APA style.