Different than sometimes suggested : E-O-Cs in Canadian emergency management.

By:

Scanlon, Joseph

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: [Ottawa, Canada : Carleton University], 1992Description: 23 pDDC classification:

363.348 21

Subject: Examines 19 Canadian emergency incidents, 13 with and 6 without Emergency Operations Centers, in order to analyze how EOCs work, and evaluate their operations. Examines the literature on EOCs, location of EOCs, who gets involved, overcrowding, who's in charge?, the style of the EOC, communications and information, changes over time, informing the public and the pattern when EOCs are not used. Concludes that EOCs are an efficient way to achieve coordination among agencies responding to a major emergency or disaster

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"Prepared for presentation at discussion of emergency management at Public Administration conference in Vienna, July, 1992"

References: p. 19-21

Examines 19 Canadian emergency incidents, 13 with and 6 without Emergency Operations Centers, in order to analyze how EOCs work, and evaluate their operations. Examines the literature on EOCs, location of EOCs, who gets involved, overcrowding, who's in charge?, the style of the EOC, communications and information, changes over time, informing the public and the pattern when EOCs are not used. Concludes that EOCs are an efficient way to achieve coordination among agencies responding to a major emergency or disaster

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