Disaster Management: Warning Response and Community RelocationOverall this book expands on the problematic nature of disaster management.It has done so by stressing how the basic conceptual basis of disaster management,preparedness,has little scientific grounding and is plagued by conflicting interpretations,all of which suit organisational demands rather than the potential victims needs.Further it reviews related to hazard vulnerbility,disaster event characteristcs and pre-impact emergency management interventions as determinants of disaster impacts.It illustrates global patterns in disaster risk and development and introduces the concept of sustainable development as vision for creating disaster-resilient places.Further it outlines a vision for IT-enhanced disaster management in terms of six areas of IT-based capabilities with existing IT use in disaster management and to highlight how to progress would have tangible positive impacts. |
Contents
An Introduction | 1 |
Preparing for the Worst | 51 |
Disaster Agencies and their Effectiveness | 91 |
Emergency and Recovery Preparedness | 153 |
Challenges of Disaster Risk Reduction and | 209 |
Local to Global Concerns | 235 |
Key IT Potential to Enhance Disaster Management | 251 |
| 291 | |
| 299 | |
Common terms and phrases
analysis approach assessment basic bureaucratic characteristics client-stakeholders clients concept coordination decisions defined demographic disaster agencies disaster behaviour disaster events disaster management agencies disaster management organisations disaster management units disaster recovery disaster research disaster resiliency earthquake economic emergency management emergency response evacuation evaluate example factors flood focused gas mask global groups Gulf War hazard adjustments hazard mitigation hazards and disasters hazmat Home Front Command horizontal integration households Hurricane Hurricane Katrina impact important increase individuals infrastructure integration interoperability involved issues losses measures natural disasters number of disasters organisation's organisational effectiveness perceived physical planning political population potential victims prepared preparedness problems programmes public administration public sector disaster relief risk area role sector disaster management significant situational awareness social capital social networks social science specific stakeholders structures studies survival sustainable development traditional trust variables warning