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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Walle, Bartel van de, editor.

Turoff, Murray, editor.

Hiltz, Starr Roxanne, editor.

Series:

Advances in management information systems.

Advances in management information systems, 1554-6152 ; v. 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Management information systems.

Emergency management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 410 pages) : illustrations, map.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, 2010.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Series Page; Advisory Board; 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. STATPackTM: 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 Challenge Facing 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 Environments12. 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

Notes:

First published 2010 by M.E. Sharpe.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786612554797

9781317467953

1317467957

9781315703473

1315703475

9781317467960

1317467965

9781282554795

1282554794

9780765621351

0765621355

OCLC:

611063996