Adam S. Crowe

Gebundenes Buch

A Futurist's Guide to Emergency Management

Beschreibung

New technologies and communication tools have changed how the public prepares and response to emergencies and disasters within the community. Despite troubling issues like global climate change, regional crises, and global economic recession, advances in GIS and spatial technologies, the social media and real-time communications during a crisis, simulation and modeling technologies, and even the possible use of drones and robots in search and rescue are among many possible solutions improved preparedness. This book addresses new and emerging trends and technologies that will help emergency managers and communities better prepare for emerging threats and future disasters.

Autor

Adam Crowe is a certified emergency manager (CEM), associate business continuity professional (ABCP), and master exercise practitioner (MEP). He is a nationally recognized leader in social media and emergency management and routinely engages in cutting-edge planning, training, and exercise opportunities that improve the readiness of communities, organizations, and businesses to respond to and recover from emergencies and disasters. He has spoken at over 50 regional, statewide, or national conferences on how social media impacts emergency management and has been published more than a dozen times in professional journals. In addition to A Futurist's Guide to Emergency Management, he is also the author of Disasters 2.0: The Application of Social Media in Modern Emergency Management (2012) and Leadership in the Open: A New Paradigm in Emergency Management (2013). He currently serves as the director of emergency preparedness at Virginia Commonwealth University and lives with his wife and children in Richmond, Virginia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 687g
• ISBN-13: 9781482253917
• ISBN-10: 1482253917
• Artikelnr.: 42748398