Title Improving disaster management : the role of IT in mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery / 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.

Publication Info.	Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2007]
	©2007

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Description	1 online resource (xiii, 177 pages)
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
Contents	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.
Summary	"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.
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Subject	Emergency management.
	Emergency management.
	Disaster relief.
	Disaster relief.
	Information technology.
	Information technology.
	Disaster Planning.
	Information Services.
	Technology.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
Added Author	Rao, Ramesh Ragothama.
	Eisenberg, Jon.
	Schmitt, Ted.
Other Form:	Print version: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Using Information Technology to Enhance Disaster Management. Improving disaster management. Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, ©2007 0309103967 (DLC) 2007297029 (OCoLC)138032315
ISBN	9780309667449 (electronic book)
	0309667445 (electronic book)
	1280844477
	9781280844478
	0309103967 (paperback)
	9780309103961 (paperback)

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