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Summary:

Abstract: "This book provides a comprehensive, cross disciplinary look at the advancing and understanding of organizational, technical, human, and cognitive issues associated with the use of information systems in responding and managing crises of all kinds"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

• 1. Achieving agility in disaster management / John R. Harrald
• 2. The past as the future of emergency preparedness and management / Murray Turoff, Starr Roxanne Hiltz, Connie White, Linda Plotnick, Art Hendela and Xiang Yao
• 3. Only connect: problem sciences, information systems and humanitarian reform / Paul Currion
• 4. Web-based group decision support for crisis management / Simon French, Clare Bayley and Nan Zhang
• 5. Incident command situation assessment utilizing video feeds from UAVs: new risks for decision making breakdowns / John McGuirl, Nadine Sarter and David Woods
• 6. When and how (not) to trust it?: supporting virtual emergency teamwork / Monika Büscher, Preben Holst Mogensen and Margit Kristensen
• 7. Multilingual crisis knowledge representation / Aviv Segev
• 8. Open infrastructure for a nationwide emergency services network / Mark Gaynor, Sarah Friedeck, Alan Pearce, Scott Bradner and Ken Post
• 9. Resilient emergency response: supporting flexibility and improvisation in collaborative command and control / Jiri Trnka and Björn J.E. Johansson
• 10. Exploring socio-technical design of crisis management information systems / Dan Harnesk and John Lindström
• 11. Information seeking and retrieval service for crisis response / Nong Chen and Ajantha Dahanayake
• 12. Emergency messaging to general public via public wireless networks / L-F Pau and P. Simonsen
• 13. Knowledge management in support of crisis response / Murray E. Jennex and Murali Raman
• 14. A unified localizable emergency events scale / Eli Rohn and Denis Blackmore
• 15. Disaster management and virtual globes: a high potential for developing countries / Gunter Zeug and Dominik Brunner
• 16. Strategies to prepare emergency management personnel to integrate geospatial tools into emergency management / Tricia Toomey, Eric Frost and Murray E. Jennex
• 17. Initial requirements of national crisis decision support system / Ahmad Kabil and Magdy M. Kabeil.

Contributors:

Jennex, Murray E., 1956-

IGI Global

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Emergency management — Information services

Emergency communication systems

Emergency management

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on online resource; title from title screen (IGI Global, viewed June 16, 2011).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (286 pages) : illustrations

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

HV551.2 .C755 2011eb

ISBNs:

9781609606107 (ebook)
9781609606091 (hbk.) [Invalid]

Other Standard Numbers:

Digital Object Identifier: 10.4018/978-1-60960-609-1

OCLC Numbers:

807845973

Other Control Numbers:

gtp00548350 (source: CaBNVSL)
[Unknown Type]: igi00047441