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.
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.
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 Finlands 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.
LeeAnn Racz is a Supervising Engineer at ToxStrategies LLC in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, USA. Prior to this initiative, she was President and Founder of ClearView Environmental Engineering and Consulting and she served for 23 years as a bioenvironmental engineer and civil engineer in the US Air Force. Dr. Racz is a licensed professional engineer, certified industrial hygienist, and board-certified environmental engineer. She earned a BS in Environmental Engineering from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, an MS in Biological and Agricultural Engineering from the University of Idaho, and a PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Utah. She has authored dozens of refereed journal articles, conference proceedings, magazine articles, and presentations, and edited six handbooks. Dr. Racz is a member of several professional organizations and honor societies and has received numerous prestigious teaching and research awards.
Adedeji B. Badiru is Dean Emeritus and a retired Professor of Systems Engineering at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT). He is a registered professional engineer and a fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers as well as a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Engineering. He has a BS degree in Industrial Engineering, MS in Mathematics, and MS in Industrial Engineering from Tennessee University, and PhD in Industrial Engineering from the University of Central Florida. He is the author of several books and technical journal articles and has received several awards and recognitions for his accomplishments. His special skills, experience, and interests center on research mentoring of faculty and graduate students.
