ICT-enabled city government field operations: Resiliency during extreme events

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 2346-2356

  Scholl, Hans J ^a   Patin, Beth J ^a   Chatfield, Akemi Takeoka ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISASTERS;

EMERGENCY PROCEDURES; EMERGENCY RESPONSE; FIELD INTERVIEWS; FIELD OPERATION; INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENTS; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES; TOHOKU EARTHQUAKES;

DATA INTEGRATION;

EID: 84857949674     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2012.307     Document Type: Conference Paper

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