Risk accelerators in disasters: Insights from the typhoon Haiyan response on humanitarian information management and decision support

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 8484 LNCS, Issue , 2014, Pages 12-23

  Van De Walle, Bartel ^a   Comes, Tina ^b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AGDER   (Norway)

Author keywords

Disaster response; humanitarian information management; preparedness; risk management; robust decision support; sensemaking

Indexed keywords

DAMAGE DETECTION; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; HURRICANES; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RISK MANAGEMENT; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

ACCURATE PREDICTION; AD-HOC COLLABORATION; DISASTER RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS; GOAL-ORIENTED APPROACH; PREPAREDNESS; ROBUST DECISIONS; SENSEMAKING;

DISASTERS;

EID: 84903146969     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-07881-6_2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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