Information systems for emergency management / Bartel van de Walle, Murray Turoff, Starr Roxanne Hiltz, editors.

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TextSeries: Advances in management information systems ; v. 16.Publication details: Armonk, NY : M.E. Sharpe, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 410 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780765621351
0765621355

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Information systems for emergency management.DDC classification:

360 22

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HV551.2 .I646 2010eb

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Contents:

1. The domain of emergency management information -- 2. Structuring the problem space of user interface design for disaster response technologies -- 3. Protecting the public, addressing individual rights : ethical issues in emergency management information systems for public health emergencies -- 4. Mitigating maladaptive threat rigidity responses to crisis -- 5. Do expert teams in rapid crisis response use their tools efficiently? -- 6. STATPack : an emergency response system for microbiology laboratory diagnostics and consultation -- 7. Coordination of emergency response : an examination of the roles of people, process, and information technology -- 8. The challenges facing a humanitarian MIS : a study of the information management systems for mine action in Iraq.

9. User perspectives on the Minnesota interorganizational Mayday information system -- 10. Simulation and emergency management -- 11. Conceptualizing a user-support task structure for geocollaborative disaster management environments -- 12. Operational applications of space technologies in international humanitarian emergency response -- 13. Near real-time global disaster impact analysis -- 14. Toward standards-based resource management systems for emergency management -- 15. Requirements and open architecture for environmental risk management information systems -- 16. Emergency response information systems : past, present, and future.

Summary: This book provides the most current and comprehensive overview avaliable today of the critical role of information systems in emergency response and preparedness, It includes contributions from leading scholars, practitioners, and industry researchers, and covers all phases of disaster management--mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

This book provides the most current and comprehensive overview avaliable today of the critical role of information systems in emergency response and preparedness, It includes contributions from leading scholars, practitioners, and industry researchers, and covers all phases of disaster management--mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery.