Disaster Management and Information Technology

Chapter 1 Emergency Management’s Journey with Technology

Chapter 2 Deploying Modern Technology for Disaster Management Practitioners

Chapter 3 Technology and Information Management Supporting Resilience in Healthcare and Rescue Systems

Chapter 4 A System for Collaboration and Information Sharing in Disaster Management

Chapter 5 A Decade of Netcentric Crisis Management: Challenges and Future Development

Chapter 6 Common Operational Picture and Interconnected Tools for Disaster Response: The FASTER Toolkit

Chapter 7 Intelligent Building Evacuation: From Modeling Systems to Behaviors

Chapter 8 Challenges of Integrating Advanced Information Technologies with 5G in Disaster Risk Management

Chapter 9 An Integrated Framework to Evaluate Information Systems Performance in High-Risk Settings: Experiences from the iTRACK Project

Chapter 10 Rural First Responders and Communication Technology: A Mixed Methods Approach to Assessing Their Challenges and Needs

Chapter 11 Designing Well-Accepted IT Solutions for Emergency Response: Methods and Approaches

Chapter 12 Mobile Device-to-Device Communication for Crisis Scenarios Using Low-Cost LoRa Modems

Chapter 13 Digitalized Cross-Sector Collaboration for an Effective Emergency Response: Emerging Forms of Network Governance

Chapter 14 Defining Common Information Requirements for Supporting Multiagency Emergency Operations

Chapter 15 A Commercial Cloud-Based Crisis Information Management System: How Fit and Robust Is It in Response to a Catastrophe?

Chapter 16 Practitioners’ Perceptions of Fitness to Task of a Leading Disaster Response Management Tool

Chapter 17 From Digital Public Warning Systems to Emergency Warning Ecosystems

Chapter 18 The Role of Ontologies and Linked Open Data in Support of Disaster Management

Chapter 19 Toward a Taxonomy for Classifying Crisis Information Management Systems