emergency management Articles
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Emergency management and ethics
Though ethics underlie emergency management in important ways, they have received insufficient attention in the mainstream academic and professional literature. This has led to the problem of people being insufficiently addressed as beings of moral worth in disasters, in spite of the overall claim that the responses are for their benefit. In the emergency field they can instead be treated as ...
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Translating emergency management concepts into reality: where the rubber meets the road
In this article the author, an experienced emergency management practitioner, presents the difference between the perception of the researcher and that of the practitioner in ten stumbling blocks that most emergency managers in the field will agree they have encountered at least once if not regularly. This point of view tries to demonstrate some of the reasons why existing research is not ...
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Mapping an emergency management network
We present a web-based method for mapping various relations between agents that have been involved in an emergency response operation. The method is based on combining a web-questionnaire with telephone interviews and it provides an efficient way of collecting large amount of information concerning the agents. By using the resulting network of agents, it is possible to perform various network ...
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Knowledge management systems for emergency management: a situational approach
Research on the role and relevance of knowledge management systems in support of emergency management continues to grow. Knowledge management (KM) literature aptly suggests that KM systems have the ability to support emergency management. Well–designed and implemented KM systems offer more accurate information/knowledge representation relevant to communication and coordination efforts required ...
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Training for improvisation in emergency management: opportunities and limits for information technology
Skill in improvising enables emergency management personnel to make creative decisions under time constraint, even when risks are high. It therefore complements skill in plan-following, which is particularly appropriate when the current emergency is similar to a past one. This paper develops recommendations on how to use Information Technology (IT) in the design of training programmes for ...
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Emergency management and decision making on accident scenes: taxonomy, models and future research
An effective emergency management is often connected with the goals achieved in the response activities. However, it is not clear as to which subsequent factors contribute to whether the emergency management should be regarded as a success or not. One factor, the on-scene commanding structure, and the on-scene commander in particular, plays an important role in fighting emerging crises. Dynamic ...
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Measuring the effectiveness of emergency management teams: scale development and validation
This paper is about the development and validity testing of a context–sensitive measure of the effectiveness of multidisciplinary emergency management teams that coordinate the multidisciplinary assistance on an incident scene. The scale can assist in future research, and serve as an instrument to evaluate team effectiveness during not only actual incidents but also emergency management exercises ...
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A case study of information and communication technology in emergency management training
This paper addresses the roles of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in training for effective emergency management and inter-organisational coordination. Collocation can encourage the development of common ground and trust and, in turn, result in greater efficiency and effectiveness. We expect to find communication and artefact use during collocated training that cannot readily ...
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An online social network for emergency management
Online Social Networking Sites (SNSs) are becoming extremely popular and can be employed in a variety of contexts. They permit the establishment of global relationships that are domain related or can be based on some need shared by the participants. Emergency domain-related websites, each with their own stated mission, are becoming widespread. Can a social network offer a solution to bringing ...
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The need for digital educational resources in emergency management
The internet offers potentially great benefits to the emergency management community as a medium that can provide quality information resources 24 hours a day/seven days a week (24/7). Concern is growing that the emergency management field will have a glut of information but a dearth of knowledge. Systematic efforts to select, digitise, and effectively present basic information and guidance are ...
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An analysis of emergency map symbology
The lack of standardised symbology on emergency maps hinders information sharing during crucial emergency situations by emergency managers and people responding to disasters. The development of a standard symbology for emergency and hazard maps will strengthen coordination and communication between planners and will enhance the ability of emergency managers to better understand information at a ...
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The FRANZ agreement: France's complex involvement in South Pacific regional cooperation on emergency management
In 1992, France, Australia and New Zealand decided to coordinate their emergency management efforts in the South Pacific through the FRANZ agreement to optimise their humanitarian assistance during disasters. The South Pacific is a complex area that requires regional cooperation. The FRANZ agreement provides a suitable framework for considering the political, economic and social difficulties that ...
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E-emergency management in the USA: a preliminary survey of the operational state of the art
In a world of e-commerce and a growing range of governmental services offered on the internet, what is the state of electronic emergency management in the USA? Interest in the use of computers to perform emergency management functions at the state and local level emerged in the 1980s. Today, survey data indicates widespread use of the internet for communications, a moderate level of data ...
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The use of emergency operations centres in local government emergency management
This paper presents exploratory research into how local government emergency operations centres (EOCs) are used during emergency management preparedness activities, through a questionnaire survey of 48 organisations from New Zealand, Canada, and USA. Analysis was framed by defining effective emergency management as a person–environment fit process in which both person (competence, response ...
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Make no mistake: the effectiveness of the lessons-learned approach to emergency management in Canada
The primary means of knowledge management within emergency management agencies in Canada is the lessons-learned approach; that is, the experiences gained during a disaster are collected and filtered, and the mistakes or oversights are highlighted as lessons. These lessons motivate the organisation to change or adapt to ensure that these same mistakes are not repeated. However, this approach only ...
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State emergency plans: assessing the inclusiveness of vulnerable populations
The US federal government's involvement in emergency management has evolved in magnitude since the 1800s. Each significant change usually occurred following a catastrophic event. The USA had two large-scale emergencies in 2001 and 2005 – man-made (September 11 terrorist attacks in 2001) and natural (Hurricane Katrina in 2005) – that shaped a new policy regarding emergency management. These ...
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Risk regulation strategies in public emergency management ? a learning perspective
The aim of this study is to explore how risk regulation strategies in the public sector contribute to learning within emergency management. Strategies applied by the regulator entail diverse activities involving interaction and communication between regulator and regulatee. The paper explores learning aspects related to these activities. The paper is based on a multiple case study within the ...
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An overview of developing tribal emergency management in the USA
As sovereign governments, American Indian and Alaska Native tribes are responsible for providing prevention, protection, response, and recovery for their members within the evolving Emergency Management (EM) environment in the USA. The current structure for the emergency response system in the USA does not fully embrace tribal sovereignty to allow tribes to maintain their government to government ...
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An Australian innovation in emergency risk management
A 1997/98 risk management study in flood-prone areas of central western Queensland was the first practical application of national emergency risk management guidelines based on the Australian/New Zealand risk management standard [1]. The paper reports on the study, its outcomes and its implications for future comprehensive and integrated emergency risk management programmes.Keywords: Australia, ...
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Judgment and decision making under stress: an overview for emergency managers
This paper discusses human judgment and decision making under stress. The authors review selected recent literature across various disciplines and suggest a definition of stress within the context of decision making during the management of emergencies. They also discuss fieldwork by the Pittsburgh Research Laboratory, NIOSH, which explores traumatic incident stress, the relationship between ...
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