Short description:

This second edition of Handbook of Emergency Response presents practical advice and guidelines on how to plan the coordinated execution of emergency response. It incorporates human factors and a systems engineering approach in emergency response project management.

Long description:

Despite pre-emptive preparations, disasters can and do occur and are a fact of life. Whether natural disasters, catastrophic accidents, or terrorist attacks, the risk cannot be completely eliminated. A carefully prepared response is your best defense. This fully updated second edition of Handbook of Emergency Response presents practical advice and guidelines on how to plan the coordinated execution of emergency response.

This handbook incorporates human factors and a systems engineering approach in emergency response project management. It provides cutting-edge research in developing a systematic structure for communication, cooperation, and coordination. Managing a project in the wake of a tragedy is complicated and involves various emotional, sentimental, reactive, and chaotic responses. This is the time that a structured communication model is most needed. This second edition includes important lessons learned and developments since the first edition was published, as well as additional information devoted to systems thinking and industrial engineering in planning for responses to emergencies. The reader will develop a thorough understanding of how to handle an emergency response using a systems approach.

The handbook is an ideal purchase for any student or practitioner of human factors, safety, systems engineering, events management, local or federal governance or those in the emergency services.

Table of Contents:

1. Resilient Organizations Overcome Challenges to Unified Response.  2. A Multi-layered Dynamic Systems Model of Disaster Response.  3. Creating Effective Response Communications.  4. Effectively Communicating Risk and Uncertainty to the Public in Crises.  5. Time Is a Murderer: The Cost of Critical Path Drag in Emergency Response.  6. Evacuation Planning, Analysis, and Management.  7. Planning and Management of Transportation Systems for Evacuation.  8. Modeling and Simulation of Fuel Availability at Gas Stations During Extreme Events.  9. Deciphering the Code of False Alarms to Understand Public Response to Emergency Warnings.  10. Damage Assessment and the Use of Technology after Disasters: Implications for Emergency Managers and Others Involved in an Important Function.  11. Revisiting Human Behavior after Disasters: The Possibility of Anti-Social Activity and its Relation to Disaster Assistance.  12. Current Threats to Biosecurity.  13. An Integrated Approach to Planning for and Responding to Ionizing Radiation Incidents.  14. Understanding the Impacts of Heat.  15. Coordinated Project Management for Emergency Response.  16. DEJI Systems Model: Factors and Elements for Emergency Response.  17. Cooperation and Compliance in Emergency Response.  18. Emergency Response: Systems-based Use of Finland?s Concept of Sisu.  19. Emergency Response Process Improvement Using Lean Six Sigma Techniques.  20. Learning Curve Application for Emergency Response.  21. Systems Engineering Framework for Environmental Conservation and Restoration Management.  22. Climate-Change Drivers for Emergency Response.  23. Qualitative Impact of Climate Change, Infrastructure Integrity, Sustainability, and Environmental Degradation on Emergency Response Programs.