Crisis response & management and emerging information systems critical applications /

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Jennex, Murray E., 1956-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2011.
• Subjects: Emergency management > Information services.; Emergency communication systems.; Collaborative and intelligent systems; Communication technologies; Crisis planning, training, exercising, and gaming; Data fusion, representation, and visualization; Early warning systems; Emergency response systems; Globalization; Development issues; Humanitarian operations; Information systems strategy; Knowledge management systems
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"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.