            
 |
|
|
Information Systems for Emergency Management
Purchase of print edition includes online access. Click here for online only ($149.00). Click here for additional information about online access to this volume. |
||||||||||
|
|||||||||||
Comments/Reviews
Description: This book provides the most current and comprehensive overview available 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.
"Foundational" chapters provide a design framework and review ethical issues. "Context" chapters describe the characteristics of individuals and organizations in which EMIS are designed and studied. "Case Study" chapters include systems for distributed microbiology laboratory diagnostics to detect possible epidemics or bioterrorism, humantarian MIS, and response coordination systems. "Systems Design and Technology" chapters cover simulation, geocollaborative systems, global disaster impact analysis, and environmental risk analysis.
Throughout the book, the editors and contributors give special emphasis to the importance of assessing the practical usefulness of new information systems for supporting emergency preparedness and response, rather than drawing conclusions from a theoretical understanding of the potential benefits of new technologies.
Selected Contents:
Series Editor's Introduction
Vladimir Zwass
1. The Domain of Emergency Management Information, Starr Roxanne Hiltz, Bartel Van de Walle, and Murray Turoff
PART I. FOUNDATIONS
2. Structuring the Problem Space of User Interface Design for Disaster Response Technologies, Susanne Jul
3. Protecting the Public, Addressing Individual Rights: Ethical Issues in Emergency Management Information Systems for Public Health Emergencies, Irene Anne Jillson
PART II. INDIVIDUAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT
4. Mitigating Maladaptive Threat Rigidity Responses to Crisis, Linda Plotnick and Murray Turoff
5. Do Experts Teams in Rapid Crisis Response Use Their Tools Efficiently?, Jiri Trnka, Thomas Kemper, and Stefan Schneiderbauer
PART III. CASE STUDIES
6. STATPack: An Emergency Response System for Microbiology Laboratory Diagnostics and Consultation, Ann Fruhling
7. Coordination of Emergency Response: An Examination of the Roles of People, Process, and Information Technology, Rui Chen, Raj Sharman, H. Raghav Rao, Shambhu J. Upadhyaya, and Catherine P. Cook-Cottone
8. The Challenges Facing a Humanitarian MIS: A Study of the Information Management System for Mine Action in Iraq, Daniel Eriksson
9. User Perspectives on the Minnesota Inter-Organizational Mayday Information System, Benjamin L. Schooley, Thomas A. Horan, and Michael Marich
PART IV. SYSTEMS DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY
10. Simulation and Emergency Management, Julie Dugdale, Narjs Bellamine-Ben Saoud, Bernard Pavard, and Nico Pallamin
11. Conceptualizing a User-Support Task Structure for Geocollaborative Disaster Management Environments, Etien L. Koua, Alan M. MacEachren, Ian Turton, Scott Pezanowski, Brian Tomaszewski, and Tim Frazier
12. Operational Applications of Space Technologies in International Humanitarian Emergency Response, Einar Bjorgo and Olivier Senegas
13. Near Real-Time Global Disaster Impact Analysis, Tom De Groeve, Alessandro Annunziato, Zsofia Kugler, and Luca Vernaccini
14. Toward Standards-Based Resource Management Systems for Emergency Management, Karen Henricksen and Renato Iannella
15. Requirements and Open Architecture for Environmental Risk Management Information Systems, Thomas Uslander and Ralf Denzer
16. Emergency Response Information Systems: Past, Present and Future, Murray Turoff, Bartel Van de Walle, and Starr Roxanne Hiltz
Editors and Contributors
Series Editor
Index
    
|