Information flow and teamwork in Incident Control Centers

Proceedings of ISCRAM 2008 - 5th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 742-751

  Owen, Christine ^a   Douglas, Jan ^a   Hickey, Gregory ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Incident management teams; Information flow; Teamwork; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

FIRES; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PERSONNEL TRAINING; SURVEYS;

CONFERENCE SESSIONS; INCIDENT MANAGEMENT; INCIDENT MANAGEMENT TEAM; INFORMATION FLOWS; QUALITY OF INTERACTION; TEAMWORK; TRAINING SIMULATION; WILDFIRE;

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84897430787     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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