Sökning: "crisis and emergency response"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 9 avhandlingar innehållade orden crisis and emergency response.
1. Secure emergency communications of emergency responders : a case study of Kemi municipality in Finland
Sammanfattning : Emergency response is highly time-critical and information dependent: every moment counts and organizations need to access various information that supports their decision making and informs them about the scale and location of the emergency, the damages, and the availability of human and physical resources. This kind information can originate from many different places and the situation can be stressful as there is a need to communicate quickly, reliably and accurately within their own organization, but also inter-organizationally. LÄS MER
2. Toward ICT-enabled Co-production for Effective Crisis and Emergency Response
Sammanfattning : In contemporary society, public services struggle to maintain a high quality of service if the authority responsible for the service delivery experiences resource deficit and increased uncertainties and vulnerabilities. This thesis explores how information and communication technology (ICT) can enable new types of network collaborations – co-production – between government (municipalities) and citizens, for a more effective crisis and emergency response. LÄS MER
3. Improving disaster response evaluations : Supporting advances in disaster risk management through the enhancement of response evaluation usefulness
Sammanfattning : Future disasters or crises are difficult to predict and therefore hard to prepare for. However, while a specific event might not have happened, it can be simulated in an exercise. LÄS MER
4. Behind the Charts - Exploring Conditions for High Level Emergency Response Management in a Complex Environment
Sammanfattning : The thesis uses, as a starting point for a discussion of emergency response management, the problem of gradual coordinated adaptation of management functions in relation to an event and its dynamics. Empirical observations and analyses carried out in the research project show that important problemsolving processes not included in, and sometimes diverging from, planning and preparations frequently occur. LÄS MER
5. New Forms of Collaboration in Emergency Response Systems : A framework for participatory design of information systems
Sammanfattning : An emergency response systems (ERS) is usually responsible for delivering essential services to save lives and minimise environmental damage in case of small, frequent or large-scale emergencies. The ongoing global financial crisis, lack of professional resources, public sector cuts and rising public expectations are some of the challenges ERSs currently are facing. LÄS MER
