Improving Disaster Management: The Role of IT in Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery - Softcover

National Research Council; Division On Engineering And Physical Sciences; Computer Science And Telecommunications Board; Committee On Using Information Technology To Enhance Disaster Management

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0309103967 ISBN 13: 9780309103961

Publisher: National Academies Press, 2007

Synopsis

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.

Table of Contents

• Front Matter
• Summary and Recommendations
• 1 Introduction and Context
• 2 The Potential to Enhance Disaster Management: Key IT-Based Capabilities
• 3 Improving Acquisition and Adoption of IT for Disaster Management
• 4 Elements of a Research Agenda
• Appendixes
• A Illustrative Fictional Narratives of IT Use in Disaster Management
• B Review of Interoperability Initiatives
• C Workshop Agenda
• D Speakers and Participants at Meetings and Site Visits
• E Biographies of Committee Members and Staff

About this title

About the Author:

Ramesh R. Rao, Jon Eisenberg, and Ted Schmitt, Editors, Committee on Using Information Technology to Enhance Disaster Management, National Research Council

About this edition

• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0309103967
• ISBN 13: 9780309103961
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: Schmitt Ted, Eisenberg Jon, Rao Ramesh R.