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Improving Disaster Management: The Role of It in Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery

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Improving Disaster Management: The Role of It in Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery - National Research Council, and Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, and Computer Science and Telecommunications Board
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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 ...

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Improving Disaster Management: The Role of It in Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery 2007, National Academies Press, Washington, D.C.

ISBN-13: 9780309103961

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