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International Journal of Emergency Management Volume 1 Issue 1

Subject Areas: Emergency Medicine
Publisher: Inderscience Publishers - Inderscience Publishers
ISSN: 1471-4825
SJR: 24

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Training of medical teams on-site for individual and coordinated response in emergency management

Andersen, Verner

2001 International Journal of Emergency Management

A system for training of coordination and cooperation of decision makers in emergency management has been under construction for some time. A first prototype of the system was developed in the MUSTER system. The system is being developed modularly with one module for each of the suborganisations...
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Technologies for today's mine emergency responders

Conti, Ronald S.; Chasko, Linda L.

2001 International Journal of Emergency Management

Historically, underground mine rescue teams have only received training in the course of actual emergencies, or in simulated mine environments, usually on the surface, with placards to identify objects and hazards. Also, while US Federal Regulations require all underground miners to walk...
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Decision support for improvisation during emergency response operations

Mendonca, David; Beroggi, Giampiero E.G.; Wallace, William A.

2001 International Journal of Emergency Management

Emergency response organisations are faced with complex, unpredictable events with the risk of catastrophic losses. To assist emergency response organisations in responding to these events, new models must be developed and the traditional command and control structure of decision-making must be...
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The land use guidance system: a disaster mitigation tool for rural communities

Smith, Susan M.

2001 International Journal of Emergency Management

As rural communities grow, the need to mitigate disasters and manage growth responsibly increases. Growth management and disaster planning and mitigation strategies designed for urban regions have been adopted by few rural communities in the USA. The Land Use Guidance System, a practical and...
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Effective problem and crisis management - FAST© and the six interaction rules

Heath, Robert

2001 International Journal of Emergency Management

Much attention over the last 20 years has been placed on tracing how effective decisions have been (and can be) made. In problem and crisis situations, this attention has included "backward mapping" and situational awareness. Approaches for operating in active problem and crisis situations have...
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Financing catastrophe risk in the capital markets

Torre-Enciso, Isabel Martinez; Laye, John E.

2001 International Journal of Emergency Management

This article provides an overview of how insurance and reinsurance companies and institutions can use new methods to finance extraordinary or catastrophe risk in the capital markets as well as to split or swap it. These new methods are divided into two groups those that issue new assets...
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E-emergency management in the USA: a preliminary survey of the operational state of the art

III, Walter G. Green

2001 International Journal of Emergency Management

In a world of e-commerce and a growing range of governmental services offered on the internet, what is the state of electronic emergency management in the USA? Interest in the use of computers to perform emergency management functions at the state and local level emerged in the 1980s. Today,...
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A framework for web-based dissemination of models and lessons learned from emergency-response exercises and operations

Jenvald, Johan; Morin, Magnus; Kincaid, J. Peter

2001 International Journal of Emergency Management

Emerging web-based technologies enable information sharing within and among rescue agencies and organisations. This development can facilitate education, training and development through effective distribution of documentation, models and lessons learned from training exercises and rescue...
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Learning in emergency organisations: trial without error

Aase, Karina; Tjensvoll, Torstein

2001 International Journal of Emergency Management

Extremely hazardous operations require organisations to rely on other forms of learning mechanisms than experimentation and trial-and-error. Studies of high-risk organisations reveal that despite the trying conditions they are operating within, some of these organisations display outstanding...

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