Information systems for emergency management / Bartel van de Walle, Murray Turoff, Starr Roxanne Hiltz, editors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The domain of emergency management information -- 2. Structuring the problem space of user interface design for disaster response technologies -- 3. Protecting the public, addressing individual rights : ethical issues in emergency management information systems for public health emergencies -- 4. Mitigating maladaptive threat rigidity responses to crisis -- 5. Do expert teams in rapid crisis response use their tools efficiently? -- 6. STATPack : an emergency response system for microbiology laboratory diagnostics and consultation -- 7. Coordination of emergency response : an examination of the roles of people, process, and information technology -- 8. The challenges facing a humanitarian MIS : a study of the information management systems for mine action in Iraq --

9. User perspectives on the Minnesota interorganizational Mayday information system -- 10. Simulation and emergency management -- 11. Conceptualizing a user-support task structure for geocollaborative disaster management environments -- 12. Operational applications of space technologies in international humanitarian emergency response -- 13. Near real-time global disaster impact analysis -- 14. Toward standards-based resource management systems for emergency management -- 15. Requirements and open architecture for environmental risk management information systems -- 16. Emergency response information systems : past, present, and future.