the role of IT in mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery /
First Statement of Responsibility
Committee on Using Information Technology to Enhance Disaster Management, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences ; Ramesh R. Rao, Jon Eisenberg, and Ted Schmitt, editors ; National Research Council of the National Academies.
Introduction and context -- The potential to enhance disaster management : key IT-based capabilities -- Improving acquisition and adoption of IT for disaster management -- Elements of a research agenda.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
"Information technology (IT) has the potential to play a critical role in managing natural and human-made disasters. Damage to communications infrastructure, along with other communications problems exacerbated the difficulties in carrying out response and recovery efforts following Hurricane Katrina. To assist government planning in this area, the Congress, in the E-government Act of 2002, directed the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to request the NRC to conduct a study on the application of IT to disaster management. This report characterizes disaster management providing a framework for considering the range and nature of information and communication needs; presents a vision of the potential for IT to improve disaster management; provides an analysis of structural, organizational, and other non-technical barriers to the acquisition, adoption, and effective use of IT in disaster; and offers an outline of a research program aimed at strengthening IT-enabled capabilities for disaster management."--Publisher's description.
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Improving disaster management.
International Standard Book Number
0309103967
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Disaster relief.
Emergency management.
Information technology.
Disaster Planning.
Information Services.
Technology.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Infrastructure.
Disaster relief.
Emergency management.
Information technology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE-- General.
(SUBJECT CATEGORY (Provisional
BUS-- 032000
SOC-- 000000
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DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
363
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34/8068
Edition
22
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
HV551
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2
Book number
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N37
2007eb
OTHER CLASS NUMBERS
Class number
WA
296
Book Number
N2772
2007
PERSONAL NAME - ALTERNATIVE RESPONSIBILITY
Eisenberg, Jon.
Rao, Ramesh Ragothama.
Schmitt, Ted.
CORPORATE BODY NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
National Research Council (U.S.)., Committee on Using Information Technology to Enhance Disaster Management.