Building assessment during disaster response and recovery

Building assessment during disaster response and recovery

During disaster response and recovery operations, civil engineers can be assigned a multitude of tasks including triage of building search priorities, identifi cation and evaluation of structural hazards, as well as the development of appropriate structural hazard mitigation techniques and monitoring of hazards, while coordinating and reporting this information to the incident command centre (I...

Addressing Privacy Issues During Disaster Recovery

IS PRIVACY IMPORTANT DURING A DISASTER? Businesses possess a staggering amount of private and personally identifiable information (which I will collectively reference for the rest of this article as “PII”), not only about their customers, but also about their employees. Under which circumstances and representations was the information collected? How is that information being used? To whom is th...

Building robust supply networks for effective and efficient disaster response

The effective and efficient distribution of relief goods is a key challenge in disaster management. Typically, adhoc supply networks (SNs) need to be built, in which various actors with different interests collaborate. Although information is sparse and highly uncertain, time for SN design is short, and important strategic decisions (e.g., location of facilities), whose revision requires invest...

Challenges in Information Systems for Disaster Recovery and Response

Disaster recovery and response require a timely coordination of the emergency services. IT-technology provides a tremendous potential to increase efficiency and effectiveness in this area by propagating information efficiently to all the right locations. In this paper we sketch requirements and describe challenges for an integrated disaster management communication and information system, addre...

Library as Safe Haven: Disaster Planning, Response, and Recovery