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Information Systems for Emergency Management.

Van De Walle, Bartel.

Information Systems for Emergency Management. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (423 pages)

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Series Editor's Introduction -- 1. The Domain of Emergency Management Information -- Part I. Foundations -- 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 -- Part II. Individual and Organizational Context -- 4. Mitigating Maladaptive Threat Rigidity Responses to Crisis -- 5. Do Expert Teams in Rapid Crisis Response Use Their Tools Efficiently? -- Part III. Case Studies -- 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 System for Mine Action in Iraq -- 9. User Perspectives on the Minnesota Interorganizational Mayday Information System -- Part IV. Emis Design and Technology -- 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 -- Editors and Contributors -- Series Editor -- Index.

Discusses the role of information systems in emergency response and preparedness. This book covers various phases of disaster management - mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery. It includes 'Systems Design and Technology' chapter that cover simulation, geocollaborative systems, and global disaster impact analysis.

9781317467960


Management information systems.


Electronic books.

HV551.2 .I54 2014

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