Discover a modern approach to understanding threats and hazards
that are more complex, costly, and devastating than ever before.
Agencies around the world rely on geographic information systems
(GIS) every day to plan for and mitigate complicated threats and
hazards and coordinate emergency response and recovery efforts.
Location intelligence provides the kind of deep, real-time data
insights needed for managers, directors, and other decision-makers
to analyze risk, gain situational awareness, and manage tomorrow's
emergencies. Dealing with Disasters: GIS for Emergency Management
explores a collection of real-life case studies about emergency
management agencies successfully using GIS for real and potential
hazards. Chapters are laid out to explore three primary areas of
disaster management: Preparedness: To effectively reduce risks,
emergency management professionals must incorporate real-time data,
big data, and other critical data feeds into their analysis. Learn
how organizations spanning from Arizona to Taiwan use data-driven
insights to effectively prepare for worst-case scenarios. Response:
Emergency management professionals must become more agile and
informed at all points during response efforts. Find out how the US
National Park Service, the Puerto Rico Emergency Operations Center,
and others have successfully responded to growing threats that
require agility and effective communication to save lives and
property. Recovery: Recovery efforts can take years, and it's
critical to avoid missteps that delay progress. See how tools like
drones help refugees; imagery helps insurance companies; and maps
help post-tornado efforts while aiding in prioritizing work and
delivering on every recovery dollar invested in a community. Each
of the three themed parts also includes a "how to get started"
section that provides ideas, strategies, tools, and actions to help
jump-start your own use of GIS for emergency management, and an
index organized by disaster type allows you to quickly learn or
refresh yourself on GIS implementation. A collection of online
resources, including additional stories, videos, new ideas and
concepts, and downloadable tools and content, complements this
book. Use Dealing with Disasters: GIS for Emergency Management as a
guide for strategizing against and surviving the emergencies that
befall communities. Introduction by Martin O'Malley, former
governor of Maryland, former mayor of Baltimore, and author of
Smarter Government: How to Govern for Results in the Information
Age (Esri Press, 2019).
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