Decision making in emergency management.

Decision-Making in Emergency Management examines decisions the authors have made over their careers based on their combined training, experience and instinct. Through a broad range of case studies, readers discover how experience impacts decision-making in conjunction with research and tools availab...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Glarum, Jan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: San Diego : Elsevier Science & Technology, 2019.
Temas:
Emergency management.
Decision making.
Decision Making
Prise de d�ecision.
decision making.
Decision making
Emergency management
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Front Cover
  • Decision Making in Emergency Management
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Author Biography
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1: Introduction to decision making for emergency managers in perspective
  • Some examples of FEMA staffing failures during the Katrina Hurricane period
  • Chapter 2: The military decision making process
  • The Simple O.O.D.A Loop
  • A more complex diagram of the OODA Loop
  • Observation
  • Orientation
  • Decide (hypothesis)
  • Action
  • Chapter 3: A short history of the study of decision making
  • Incrementalism
  • Thinking fast and slow in decision making
  • Barriers to effective decision making and some methods to try to avoid them
  • The framing effect
  • The familiarity effect
  • The confirmation bias
  • The halo effect
  • Group think
  • The true believers
  • The "smart person" problem
  • Simple mathematical formulas often make better predictions than professionals
  • The Black Swan: The impact of the highly improbable
  • Thoughts on how to think well from Allan Jacobs
  • Governmental effects and constraints on good decision making
  • Model I: Rational policy
  • Model II: Organizational process
  • Model III: Bureaucratic politics
  • The emergency manager as bureaucrat
  • Can we improve our decision making?
  • Improving decision making by attempting to avoid some of our brain's limitations
  • Using simple mathematical formulas to improve decision making
  • Applying some of the wisdom of Allan Jacob's to improve decision making
  • Applying Finkelstein, Whitehead, and Campbell (FWC) methods to improve decision making
  • The value of checklists in decision making
  • Evolutionary approaches and game theory
  • Chapter 4: Decision making in emergencies, disasters, and catastrophic events
  • Emerging trends and history affecting emergency management decision making
  • Background
  • The 911 attack and the development of the US Department of Homeland Security
  • Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2004, 2005
  • The extended, nonfederal government and its effects on emergency management
  • Increasing global vulnerability to disasters
  • The professionalization of emergency management
  • The poor and the vulnerable as a special concern in emergency management
  • Private business approaches to disaster response communication with AT & T
  • Failing infrastructure must be considered in many disaster situations
  • Weather-related hazards, technological hazards, and induced events (terrorists' use of weapons of mass destruction)
  • Continued urbanization across the world
  • Weather-related hazards
  • Floods
  • Coastal flooding
  • Earthquakes
  • Volcanoes
  • Tsunamis
  • Hurricanes
  • NDMS DMAT assets as a key factor in early hurricane response
  • Winter storms
  • Tornadoes
  • Droughts and wildfires
  • Heat waves
  • Urban heat islands
  • Technological hazards
  • Lessons for industry based on the Three Mile Island (TMI) reactor disaster
  • Lessons for the regulator based on the Three Mile island (TMI) reactor disaster.

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