Achieving agility in evacuation operations: an evidence-based framework

There is an agreement among European countries about the need to achieve efficient, effective and responsive evacuations as part of disaster management. Evacuations face uncertain dynamic conditions, which often challenge expectations at planning stage. This research looks adoption agility in evacuation operations. Managers involved operations three were interviewed identify current practices needs during evacuations. article potential beneficiary engagement, staff information, cooperation, fitness for change incorporate agile each one stages planning. The purpose provide Agile Evacuation Operations (AEO) evidence-based framework inform theory practice. analysis provided shows that along with it important engage beneficiaries more closely, empower train react unexpected take advantage local knowledge enhance