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Introduction to Emergency Management

Authors : Rajendra Akerkar, Minsung Hong

Published in: Big Data in Emergency Management: Exploitation Techniques for Social and Mobile Data

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The term emergency management is used in this book to encompass all of the activities carried out by the federal state and local agencies that are referred to as emergency services. These activities have the primary goal of managing hazards, risks, and emergencies of all types. The advances in information and communication technology have a profound impact on emergency management by making unprecedented volumes of data available to decision makers. This has resulted in new challenges related to an effective management of large volumes of data. In this chapter, we examine basic concepts of emergency management and provide its brief history.

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Title: Introduction to Emergency Management
Authors: Rajendra Akerkar
Minsung Hong
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Big Data in Emergency Management: Exploitation Techniques for Social and Mobile Data
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-48098-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-48099-8

Copyright Year: 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48099-8_1

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