Pandemics and bioterrorism [electronic resource] : transdisciplinary information sharing for decision-making against biological threats / edited by Andrey Trufanov, Alessandra Rossodivita and Matteo Guidotti.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Trufanov, Andrey.

Rossodivita, Alessandra.

Guidotti, Matteo.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Public Diplomacy Division.

Series:

NATO science for peace and security series. Human and societal dynamics ; E, v. 62.

NATO science for peace and security series. E, Human and societal dynamics, 1874-6276 ; v. 62

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bioterrorism.

Epidemics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : IOS Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A collection of papers presented at the NATO ASI conference Transdisciplinary Information Sharing for Decision-Making against Biological Threats. It highlights strategic enablers such as cross-disciplinary information sharing, international outreach and partner activities, public diplomacy and strategic communication.

Contents:

Title page; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; 1. Introduction; The Need of Preparing Regional Leaders with the Knowledge, Training and Instruments for Information Sharing and Decision-Making against Biological Threats and Pandemics. Preparing for the Next Pandemi; 2. Information-Sharing for Counteracting Biological and Other Global Threats; Information Sharing in Knowledge Society; Learning from Catastrophe: Lessons for Pandemic Planning; Governance in Counteracting Natural and Man-Made Disasters: the LEFIS Network as Example

Legal and Political Implications of a Pandemic and Biological Threats. Ethical Dilemmas in DisastersThe Economic and Systemic Impacts of a Pandemic; 3. Improving Preparedness through Education and Awareness; Health "Security" Systems; Tools Against Terrorist Threats: Considerations on How to be Prepared; The Viewpoint of ED Personnel about Avian Flu: Do Emergency Department Healthcare Professionals Feel Ready to Face Epidemics/Pandemics?; Bioterrorism and Pandemics: A New World Order of Civil Defence; 4. Multidisciplinary Approaches to Address Biological and Nonconventional Threats

Nanosystems and CBRN Threats: A Resource Worth Exploiting, a Potential Worth ControllingModern Biooptical Instruments for the Express Control of Total Toxicity, Individual Chemicals, Viral and Bacterial Infections to Prevent Bio- and Medical Threats; Behavior of Some Pathogenic and Genetically Modified Bacteria in Groundwater Samples; Geological Environment as a Factor of Natural and Man-Made Disasters; Mass Destruction Weapons and their Contribution to Pandemic Effects; Significance of Noninvasive Cardiology Care in Present-Day Peculiarities of Hazardous Regions

5. Modeling Information-Sharing and CommunicationThe Supercourse: Former Soviet Union Countries Practice; Globalization of Public Health Communication: Preparing Local Leaders using the Supercourse; Model of the Adaptive Hierarchical Information Security System; 6. Case Studies and Regional Threats; Cooperation between Civilian and Military Organizations during an Emergency: A Case Study Evaluation of the 2008 Reentry of an Uncontrolled U.S. Government Satellite Contaminated with Hydrazine; Counterterrorism: The First Italian Drill; Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever in Turkey (2002-2008)

The Anopheles Mosquitoes: Their Role in Malaria Transmission in GeorgiaThe Problem of Preventing Natural Foci Infections during the Development of New Territories; Pseudotuberculosis - Epidemiology, Clinic and Prevention Measures; Subject Index; Author Index

Notes:

"Published in cooperation with NATO Public Diplomacy Division."

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

661269274X

1-282-69274-7

9786612692741

1-60750-492-8

OCLC:

647216468