Transforming Disaster Response

Author : William Lester
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429871894

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Much of the published work on disaster response has focused on specific disasters, highlighting what went wrong. Taking a new approach, this book explores ways in which transformational leadership principles may be applied to an organization’s disaster preparation and response, moving the organization away from a competitive or top-down approach and toward a more collaborative one. Rather than focus on centralizing responsibility, with commands emanating from the top, author William Lester offers readers a new paradigm, with step by step instructions on placing transformative and collaborative systems front and center, in order to develop a sustainable disaster response system – one that is not centered on a specific leader or time, but instead focuses on the changes needed to build a system that can outlive any one leader. Implementation plans to move from concept into workable, effective strategies that can be used immediately are included. Assuming no prior background in either organizational theory or disaster response systems, the book offers practical examples and hands-on explorations of the responses to Hurricanes Sandy, Harvey, Irma, and Maria, written by experts who know those disasters best – delivering important insight into what elements make the best disaster response system.

Author : Liza Ireni Saban
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781438452449

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Disaster Emergency Management by Liza Ireni Saban Pdf

Examines how public officials in the US, China, Japan, and Indonesia have interacted with communities affected by natural disasters. Survival in times of disaster is a question of utmost importance to both the victims of those events and to the professionals and people in authority who are there to serve them. In Disaster Emergency Management, Liza Ireni Saban examines what leads some nations, communities, and individuals to rise to the occasion during these times of trauma, while others do not. Utilizing case studies of China, Indonesia, Japan, and the United States, she focuses in particular on the dilemma faced by local emergency officials who, rather than elected officials, find themselves “on the front lines,” suddenly confronted with complex public problems. Recent studies have pointed to a breakdown of government and bureaucratic decision making in the face of intense crisis situations. Saban demonstrates the inadequacies of grappling with what are in truth contested ethical issues within a framework whose approach is technical-rational. She draws on communitarian ethics to redefine the role of the bureaucrat so that community resilience, through attention to local values and needs, is fostered prior to the actual crisis. Liza Ireni Saban is Senior Lecturer in the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy, and Strategy at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel. She is the coauthor (with Alberto Spektorowski) of Politics of Eugenics: Productionism, Population, and National Welfare.

Author : James Bohland,Jack Harrald,Deborah Brosnan
Publisher : Charles C Thomas Publisher
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780398092344

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The Disaster Resiliency Challenge by James Bohland,Jack Harrald,Deborah Brosnan Pdf

Resilience as a concept has become embedded in public policy discourse within countries across the world in a wide range of contexts--planning, education, emergency management, and supply chains. The goal of this book is to assist future community leaders and professionals with the subsystem components and the actions that must be taken to insure community resilience, and to alert them to the potential pitfalls when adapting their community to the challenges that continually change. The development of trust among and between diverse members of communities and the political and economic leaders is essential if our views of how to build resilience are to change. The book is divided into five sections. The first section explores the challenges of transformational change, building community resilience with alternative frameworks, and resilience in time and space with lessons from ecology. Section II covers the building of hazard resilient communities through technology, microscale disaster and local resilience, the building of resilient cities by harnessing the power of urban analytics. and the failure to describe and communicate the possible future climate change scenarios. Section III examines challenges for urban theory when conceptualizing financial resilience, the role of social capital in community disaster resilience, the challenges of citizen engagement and resilience in the Dutch disaster management, and the rationalities of extraction and resilience of fossil-fueling vulnerability in an age of extreme energy. Section IV explores shifting from risks to consequences when building resilience to mega-hazards, resilience and small island nations, the sea level rise, demographics and rural resilience on Maryland’s Eastern shore, and the epicenter of community resilience in the California’s San Francisco Bay Area. Section V discusses observations and challenges on building community resilience in the twenty-first century. This highly informative and indispensable volume will be meaningful for future community leaders, citizens, stakeholders, government officials, emergency management, and crisis interveners.

Author : David A. McEntire
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Disaster relief
ISBN : OCLC:1280846245

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Disaster Response and Recovery by David A. McEntire Pdf

Author : Sahlin, John P.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781466685574

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Social Media and the Transformation of Interaction in Society by Sahlin, John P. Pdf

The availability of various technological platforms enables individuals to feel a deeper sense of connectivity and contribution to their social circles and the world around them. This growing dependence on social networking platforms has altered the ways in which society functions and communicates. Social Media and the Transformation of Interaction in Society is a definitive reference source for timely scholarly research evaluating the impact of social networking platforms on a variety of relationships, including those between individuals, governments, citizens, businesses, and consumers. Featuring expansive coverage on a range of topics relating to social media applications and uses across industries, this publication is a critical reference source for professionals, educators, students, and academicians seeking current research on the role and impact of new media on modern society. This publication features authoritative, research-based chapters across a range of relevant topics including, but not limited to, computer-mediated communication, nonprofit projects, disaster response management, education, cyberbullying, microblogging, digital paranoia, user interaction augmentation, and viral messaging.

Author : David Sanderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138849634

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Design for Urban Disaster : Response, Resilience, Transformation by David Sanderson Pdf

Author : Naim Kapucu,Alpaslan ?zerdem
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780763781552

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Managing Emergencies and Crises by Naim Kapucu,Alpaslan ?zerdem Pdf

Managing Emergencies and Crisis provides future public administrators and policymakers with a comprehensive understanding of the institutional, socio-cultural, and political dimensions of natural and human-made disasters, as well as providing them with the tools needed for confronting the challenges of preparedness and response.--[book cover]

Author : Bojan Lalic,Vidosav Majstorovic,Ugljesa Marjanovic,Gregor von Cieminski,David Romero
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 693 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030579937

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Advances in Production Management Systems. The Path to Digital Transformation and Innovation of Production Management Systems by Bojan Lalic,Vidosav Majstorovic,Ugljesa Marjanovic,Gregor von Cieminski,David Romero Pdf

The two-volume set IFIP AICT 591 and 592 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International IFIP WG 5.7 Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems, APMS 2020, held in Novi Sad, Serbia, in August/September 2020. The 164 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 199 submissions. They discuss globally pressing issues in smart manufacturing, operations management, supply chain management, and Industry 4.0. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Part I: advanced modelling, simulation and data analytics in production and supply networks; advanced, digital and smart manufacturing; digital and virtual quality management systems; cloud-manufacturing; cyber-physical production systems and digital twins; IIOT interoperability; supply chain planning and optimization; digital and smart supply chain management; intelligent logistics networks management; artificial intelligence and blockchain technologies in logistics and DSN; novel production planning and control approaches; machine learning and artificial intelligence; connected, smart factories of the future; manufacturing systems engineering: agile, flexible, reconfigurable; digital assistance systems: augmented reality and virtual reality; circular products design and engineering; circular, green, sustainable manufacturing; environmental and social lifecycle assessments; socio-cultural aspects in production systems; data-driven manufacturing and services operations management; product-service systems in DSN; and collaborative design and engineering Part II: the Operator 4.0: new physical and cognitive evolutionary paths; digital transformation approaches in production management; digital transformation for more sustainable supply chains; data-driven applications in smart manufacturing and logistics systems; data-driven services: characteristics, trends and applications; the future of lean thinking and practice; digital lean manufacturing and its emerging practices; new reconfigurable, flexible or agile production systems in the era of industry 4.0; operations management in engineer-to-order manufacturing; production management in food supply chains; gastronomic service system design; product and asset life cycle management in the circular economy; and production ramp-up strategies for product

Author : Hamner, Marvine Paula
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781466681606

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Emergency Management and Disaster Response Utilizing Public-Private Partnerships by Hamner, Marvine Paula Pdf

In a world of earthquakes, tsunamis, and terrorist attacks, it is evident that emergency response plans are crucial to solve problems, overcome challenges, and restore and improve communities affected by such negative events. Although the necessity for quick and efficient aid is understood, researchers and professionals continue to strive for the best practices and methodologies to properly handle such significant events. Emergency Management and Disaster Response Utilizing Public-Private Partnerships bridges the gap between the theoretical and the practical components of crisis management and response. By discussing and presenting research on the benefits and challenges of such partnerships, this publication is an essential resource for academicians, practitioners, and researchers interested in understanding the complexities of crisis management and relief through public and private partnerships.

Author : Sakiko Kanbara,Rajib Shaw,Naonori Kato,Hiroyuki Miyazaki,Akira Morita
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9789811956461

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Society 5.0, Digital Transformation and Disasters by Sakiko Kanbara,Rajib Shaw,Naonori Kato,Hiroyuki Miyazaki,Akira Morita Pdf

This book presents the evolution of the science technology paradigm in Japan and analyzes the critical community and local governance issues from the perspectives of the changing risk landscape, Society 5.0, and digital transformation. It also provides suggestions for the future development of a resilient society and community, by drawing lessons from other countries. Advancements in science technology in recent decades in Japan and the world might have increased our capacity to tackle the adverse human consequences of various kinds of disasters and environmental issues. However, the accompanied and interlinking phenomena of urbanization, climate change, rural to urban migration, population decreases, and aged population have posed new challenges, especially in the small, medium-sized cities, and in rural areas of Japan. This is also enhanced by the risk of cascading, complex and systemic risk, which is defining a new normal as “living with uncertainties”. Society 5.0 is defined as "A human-centered society that balances economic advancement with the resolution of social problems by a system that highly integrates cyberspace and physical space." Society 5.0 was proposed in the 5th Science and Technology Basic Plan as a future society that Japan should aspire to. Society 5.0 achieves a high degree of convergence between cyberspace (virtual space) and physical space (real space), compared with the past information society (Society 4.0) that people would access a cloud service (databases) in cyberspace via the Internet and search for, retrieve, and analyze information or data. In Japan, in the initial stage, a great deal of confusion about the number of people infected with coronavirus occurred. Not only made it inefficient, but it did not produce the accurate data needed for critical decisions. Japan may have unique disadvantages compared with other countries. Trying to drive digitization without thoroughly understanding these disadvantages and addressing them head-on will only lead to failed digital transformations. With these three pillars of changing risk landscape, Society 5.0, and Digital transformation drive, the book will analyze the evolution of the science technology paradigm in Japan, will go deeper into the critical community and local governance issues, and will provide suggestions for future development of resilient society and community, by drawing lessons from overseas disaster risk reduction.

Author : Satishkumar, D.,Sivaraja, M.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9798369333631

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Utilizing AI and Machine Learning for Natural Disaster Management by Satishkumar, D.,Sivaraja, M. Pdf

Acute events of natural origin, spanning atmospheric, biological, geophysical, hydrologic, and oceanographic realms, persistently menace societies globally. Approximately 160 million people annually bear the brunt of these disasters, with certain regions facing disproportionate impacts. The lack of predictability intensifies the challenge, creating intercommunal capacity gaps and amplifying the dire consequences. Utilizing AI and Machine Learning for Natural Disaster Management provides instances of ML in predicting earthquakes. By leveraging seismic data, AI systems can analyze magnitude and patterns, providing invaluable insights to forecast earthquake occurrences and aftershocks. Similarly, the book unveils the potential of ML in simulating floods by recording and analyzing rainfall patterns from previous years. The predictive power extends to hurricanes, where data on wind speed, rainfall, temperature, and moisture converge to anticipate future occurrences, potentially saving millions in property damage.

Author : Roland Azibo Balgah,Jude Ndzifon Kimengsi
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781802628197

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Disaster Management in Sub-Saharan Africa by Roland Azibo Balgah,Jude Ndzifon Kimengsi Pdf

A combined analysis of all the chapters provides an interesting summary and information for creating disaster management policies for improved results in SSA. With an extensive glossary of terms and index, the book lends itself to specialized academics and students, but also to disaster management policy makers and practitioners.

Author : Tugrul U Daim
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789811214646

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Digital Transformation: Evaluating Emerging Technologies by Tugrul U Daim Pdf

Selecting the right technology is one of the most critical decisions in technology driven enterprises, and no selection is complete without a thorough and informed evaluation. This book explores the digital transformation movement from three perspectives: the technological, the personal, and the organizational.The technical perspective analyses and evaluates new and up and coming technologies such as IoT and Cloud Technology. The personal perspective focuses on the consumer's attitude and experience in the adoption of technologies such as smart homes, smart watches, drones and wireless devices. And the organizational perspective focuses on evaluating how technology-driven an organization and their core activities or products are.This book is an ideal reference for managers who are responsible for digital transformation in their organizations and also serves a good starting point for researchers interested in understanding the trend. The book contains case studies that may be used by educators in MBA and Engineering and Technology Management MS programs covering digital transformation related courses.

Author : Wanglin Yan,Will Galloway
Publisher : Springer
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319501710

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Rethinking Resilience, Adaptation and Transformation in a Time of Change by Wanglin Yan,Will Galloway Pdf

This book contributes to the literature on resilience, hazard planning, risk management, environmental policy and design, presenting articles that focus on building resilience through social and technical means. Bringing together contributions from Japanese authors, the book also offers a rare English-language glimpse into current policy and practice in Japan since the 2011 Tohoku disaster. The growth of resilience as a common point of contact for fields as disparate as economics, architecture and population politics reflects a shared concern about our capacity to cope with and adapt to change. The ability to bounce back from hardship and disaster is essential to all of our futures. Yet, if such ability is to be sustainable, and not rely on a “brute force” response, innovation will need to become a core practice for policymakers and on-the-ground responders alike. The book offers a valuable reference guide for graduate students, researchers and policy analysts who are looking for a holistic but practical approach to resilience planning.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Homeland Security. Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Response and Communications
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Emergency communication systems
ISBN : MINN:31951D03647456V

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Emergency Mgmt 2.0 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Homeland Security. Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Response and Communications Pdf