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Summary:

Abstract: "This book offers the most vital, up-to-date research within the field of disaster management technologies, offering research and updates from authors from around the world, with a variety of perspectives and insights into the most cutting edge technology the field has to offer"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

• 1. The transformative power of social media on emergency and crisis management / Gideon F. For-mukwai
• 2. The use of social media in disaster situations: framework and cases / Guido Lang and Raquel Benbunan-Fich
• 3. Building community resilience through social networking sites: using online social networks for emergency management / Miriam S. Belblidia
• 4. A framework to identify best practices: social media and Web 2.0 technologies in the emergency domain / Connie White and Linda Plotnick
• 5. Wiki technology and emergency response: an action research study / Murali Raman ... [et al.]
• 6. A normative enterprise architecture for guiding end-to-end emergency response decision support / Michael J. Marich, Benjamin L. Schooley and Thomas A. Horan
• 7. Lessons of disaster recovery learned for information systems management in US higher education / Ruben Xing ... [et al.]
• 8. An approach to using ontologies for the development of high quality disaster recovery plans / Lila Rao ... [et al.]
• 9. The relationship between IT director values and extent of IT disaster recovery planning in the banking industry / Jordan Shropshire and Christopher Kadlec
• 10. Lessons learned on the operation of the LoST protocol for mobile IP-based emergency calls / Ana Goulart ... [et al.]
• 11. Factors that influence crisis managers and their decision-making ability during extreme events / Connie White and Murray Turoff
• 12. Achieving electric restoration logistical efficiencies during critical infrastructure crisis response: a knowledge management analysis / Teresa Durbin ... [et al.]
• 13. Curriculum design and development at the nexus of international crisis management and information systems / Keith Clement
• 14. A methodology for inter-organizational emergency management continuity planning / John Lindström ... [et al.]
• 15. Implementing social media in crisis response using knowledge management / Murray E. Jennex
• 16. Managing crises in the healthcare service chain: lessons from the past and future directions / Panos Constantinides
• 17. The role of social networks in emergency management: a research agenda / Linna Li and Michael F. Goodchild.

Contributors:

Jennex, Murray E., 1956-

IGI Global

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Emergency management — Technological innovations

Emergency communication systems

Social media

Emergency management

Technological innovations

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on online resource; title from title screen (IGI Global, viewed January 23, 2012).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 pages)

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

HV551.2 .M36 2012eb

ISBNs:

9781466601680 (ebook)
9781466601673 (hardcover) [Invalid]
9781466601697 (print & perpetual access) [Invalid]

Other Standard Numbers:

Digital Object Identifier: 10.4018/978-1-4666-0167-3

OCLC Numbers:

807848604

Other Control Numbers:

gtp00550679 (source: CaBNVSL)
[Unknown Type]: igi00058290