Background: In different crises without any exception, especially sudden emergencies, the role of Human Effective Components (HECs), Native Human Effective Components (NHECs) (belonging to a specific space and location), and especially Core Native Human Effective Components (CNHECs); and among CNHECs, level of management skills, ignorance, and manager’s mind bandwidth are of vital importance in...

Experimentation is an essential element to improve crisis management and to assess crisis management tools. Unfortunately, for the moment, real crisis management experimentations are episodic and generally focus on a specific geographical and/or thematic area. This is why the European DRIVER project aims to provide a test-bed platform where crisis management testing and experimentation can be c...

This paper examines the management of uncertainty among emergency responders, the media, and the public following the crash of an Israeli cargo plane carrying apparently hazardous cargo in Amsterdam's Bijlmermeer area. While the authorities' management of the emergency created by the initial crash was effective, the long-term crisis management performance was considerably less effective. It is ...

Crisis management is an increasingly important activity of management. Organizations’ critical crises can induce severe consequences or even disasters if wrong decisions are made. The World Wide Web provides an unprecedented freedom for the public to discuss one’s opinions which impact much on the progress of the crisis. Based on the study of web mining and its relative techniques, a combined w...

BACKGROUND Bam earthquake was the most catastrophic natural disasters in recent years. The aim of this study was to review different aspects of crisis management during and after the catastrophic earthquake in Bam City, Iran. METHODS Data needed for this systematic review were collected through searching PubMed, EMBASE and SID databases, for the period from 2003 to 2011. Keywords included ear...

This study examines crisis-management practices in the Israeli restaurant industry. The study uses a questionnaire for evaluating the importance and usage of different practices for crisis management. The findings show that managers are generally consistent in crisis management and that they generally use the most important practices. The findings illustrate the significance of government suppo...

Crisis management teams (e.g. fire & rescue services, anti-terrorist units, .. ) are often confronted with dramatic situations where critical decisions have to be made within hard time constraints. A complete overview of the crisis site is necessary to take correct decisions in these circumstances. However, obtaining such a complete overview of a complex site is not possible in real-life situat...

In crisis situations different organizations have to cooperate to gain shared situation awareness and to take accurate decisions. However, several evaluation studies of crisis mitigation processes indicate that it is hard to effectively coordinate efforts of all organizations involved. The goal of our project is to improve coordination in crisis management teams, by improving the interaction pr...