Overview
- Broadens the understanding of agile and effective management of disaster response
- Presents the public administration context of global disaster response and recovery efforts
- Studies the efficacy of CIMS in establishing and maintaining situational awareness and a common operating picture
Part of the book series: Public Administration and Information Technology (PAIT, volume 40)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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CIMS in Emergency Management Practice
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CIMS Functionalities and Features
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CIMS Requirements, Development, and Testing
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CIMS Assessment, Evaluation, and Data Management
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Kees Boersma is full professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Faculty of Science at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His interest is in organizational and technological innovation in relation to societal resilience. He is co-founder of the Crisis Resilience Academy of the Institute for Societal Resilience. From 2015-2022 he served as a board member of the Association Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM). Since 2019 he is a member of the steering committee of KUNO: the Platform for Humanitarian Knowledge Exchange. He was a visiting scholar at Johns Hopkins University, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the USA, and at the University of the Free State in South Africa. His current projects include: the EU Horizon 2020 project "LINKS: Strengthening links between technologies and society for European disaster resilience" (PI), and the EU Horizon 2020 COVID-19 project "HERoS: Health Emergency Response in Interconnected Systems" (WP leader). In his research, Prof. Boersma works closely together with practitioner organizations, policy makers and community members to investigate how new technologies and innovations are or can be used to improve information sharing, mobilization, new ways of working, steering and coordination, and risk communication.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Disaster Management and Information Technology
Book Subtitle: Professional Response and Recovery Management in the Age of Disasters
Editors: Hans Jochen Scholl, Eric E. Holdeman, F. Kees Boersma
Series Title: Public Administration and Information Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20939-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-20938-3Published: 01 April 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-20941-3Published: 02 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-20939-0Published: 31 March 2023
Series ISSN: 2512-1812
Series E-ISSN: 2512-1839
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 485
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations, 48 illustrations in colour
Topics: Public Administration, Public Policy, Science and Technology Studies, Computer Applications