Disaster Management and Information Technology : Professional Response and Recovery Management in the Age of Disasters

1. Emergency Management’s Journey with Technology -- 2. Deploying Modern Technology for Disaster Management Practitioners -- 3. Technology and information management supporting resilience in health care and rescue systems -- 4. A System for Collaboration and Information Sharing in Disaster Management -- 5. A decade of netcentric crisis management: challenges and future development -- 6. Common Operational Picture and Interconnected Tools for Disaster Response: the FASTER toolkit -- 7. Intelligent Building Evacuation: From Modeling Systems to Behaviors -- 8. Challenges of Integrating Advanced Information Technologies with 5G in Disaster Risk Management -- 9. An Integrated Framework to Evaluate Information Systems Performance in High-Risk Settings: Experiences from the iTRACK Project -- 10. Rural First Responders and Communication Technology: A Mixed Methods Approach to Assessing Their Challenges and Needs -- 11. Designing well-accepted IT solutions for emergency response: Methods and approaches -- 12. Mobile Device-to-Device Communication for Crisis Scenarios Using Low-cost LoRa Modems -- 13. Digitalized Cross-sector Collaboration for an Effective Emergency Response: Emerging Forms of Network Governance -- 14. Defining common information requirements for supporting inter-agency emergency operations -- 15. A Commercial Cloud-based Crisis Information Management System: How Fit and Robust is it in Response to a Catastrophe?- 16. Practitioners’ Perceptions of Fitness to Task of a Leading Disaster Response Management Tool -- 17. From Digital Public Warning Systems to Emergency Warning Ecosystems -- 18. The role of Ontologies and Linked Open Data in support of Disaster Management -- 19. Towards a taxonomy for classifying Crisis Information Management Systems.