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    Information systems for emergency management (2010)
    Armonk, N.Y. [u.a.] : Sharpe
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    Call number: M 11.0364
    Description / Table of Contents: This book provides the most current and comprehensive overview available today of the critical role of information systems in emergency response and preparedness. It includes contributions from leading scholars, practitioners, and industry researchers, and covers all phases of disaster management--mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery."Foundational" chapters provide a design framework and review ethical issues. "Context" chapters describe the characteristics of individuals and organizations in which EMIS are designed and studied. "Case Study" chapters include systems for distributed microbiology laboratory diagnostics to detect possible epidemics or bioterrorism, humantarian MIS, and response coordination systems. "Systems Design and Technology" chapters cover simulation, geocollaborative systems, global disaster impact analysis, and environmental risk analysis.Throughout the book, the editors and contributors give special emphasis to the importance of assessing the practical usefulness of new information systems for supporting emergency preparedness and response, rather than drawing conclusions from a theoretical understanding of the potential benefits of new technologies.
    Type of Medium: Monograph available for loan
    Pages: xii, 410 S. , ill , 26 cm
    ISBN: 9780765621344
    Series Statement: Advances in management information systems 16
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    Location: Upper compact magazine
    Branch Library: GFZ Library
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    Electronic Resource
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    Characterizable fuzzy preference structures (1998)
    Springer
    Annals of operations research 80 (1998), S. 105-136 
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    ISSN: 1572-9338
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Mathematics , Economics
    Notes: Abstract In this paper, we study the existence, construction and reconstruction of fuzzy preferencestructures. Starting from the definition of a classical preference structure, we propose anatural definition of a fuzzy preference structure, merely requiring the fuzzification of theset operations involved. Upon evaluating the existence of these structures, we discover thatthe idea of fuzzy preferences is best captured when fuzzy preference structures are definedusing a L Ú ukasiewicz triplet. We then proceed to investigate the role of the completenesscondition in these structures. This rather extensive investigation leads to the proposal of astrongest completeness condition, and results in the definition of a one-parameter class offuzzy preference structures. Invoking earlier results by Fodor and Roubens, the constructionof these structures from a reflexive binary fuzzy relation is then easily obtained. Thereconstruction of such a structure from its fuzzy large preference relation inevitable toobtain a full characterization of these structures in analogy to the classical case is morecumbersome. The main result of this paper is the discovery of a non-trivial characterizingcondition that enables us to fully characterize the members of a two-parameter class offuzzy preference structures in terms of their fuzzy large preference relation. As a remarkableside-result, we discover three limit classes of characterizable fuzzy preference structures,traces of which are found throughout the preference modelling literature.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1018903628661
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    The implications of irreversibility in emergency response decisions (2000)
    Springer
    Theory and decision 49 (2000), S. 25-51 
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    ISSN: 1573-7187
    Keywords: Emergency response ; Flexibility ; Information ; Irreversibility ; Option value
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Sociology , Economics
    Notes: Abstract The irreversibility effect implies that a decision maker who neglects the prospect of receiving more complete information at later stages of a sequential decision problem will in certain cases too easily take an irreversible decision, as he ignores the existence of a positive option value in favour of reversible decisions. This option value represents the decision maker's flexibility to adapt subsequent decisions to the obtained information. In this paper we show that the economic models dealing with irreversibility as used in environmental and capital investment decision making can be extended to emergency response decisions that produce important irreversible effects. In particular, we concentrate on the decision whether or not to evacuate an industrial area threatened by a possible nuclear accident. We show in a simple two-period evacuation decision model that non-optimal conclusions may be drawn when evacuation is regarded as a `now or never decision'. The robustness of these results is verified by means of a sensitivity analysis of the various model parameters. The importance of `options thinking' in this decision context is illustrated in an example.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1005155426945
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    Design for Societal Resilience: The Risk Evaluation Diversity-Aiding Approach (RED-A) (2020)
    Molecular Diversity Preservation International
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    Publication Date: 2020-07-07
    Description: The global impacts of disaster risks are on the rise. Moreover, evidence shows that the severity of damage will increase exponentially. In 2019, there were 395 natural disasters that caused 11,755 deaths. Literature and practice indicate that diversification of disaster risk management (DRM) approaches can make communities more resilient. One notable bottleneck in adopting diverse DRM approaches is the historical dominance of natural and technological sciences with little contribution from social sciences. Thus, a heterogeneous social-technical approach to DRM is rare and risk governance challenges are hardly understood. We conducted a systematic literature and practice review and extracted data to develop and answer five sub-questions. After that, we reviewed relevant information and selected eight risk evaluation approaches. We made comparisons and used the input to design the Risk Evaluation Diversity-aiding Approach (RED-A). The approach consists of 12 criteria and a checklist with 22 items. RED-A provides guidance to DRM researchers and practitioners when conducting socio-technical risk evaluations. It helps identify cognitive biases in the ongoing DRM process that may largely impact the quality of risk evaluation procedures. The goal of the 22-item checklist is to ensure that the 12 RED-A criteria are incorporated as much as possible to support the progressive transition towards a heterogeneous social-technical DRM approach. Finally, the RED-A criteria and checklist are applied in the Solotvyno municipality context (in Ukraine), to illustrate the use of the approach.
    Electronic ISSN: 2071-1050
    Topics: Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering
    Published by Molecular Diversity Preservation International
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    Humanitarian access, interrupted: dynamic near real-time network analytics and mapping for reaching communities in disaster-affected countries (2020)
    Springer
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    Publication Date: 2020-03-04
    Print ISSN: 0171-6468
    Electronic ISSN: 1436-6304
    Topics: Mathematics , Economics
    Published by Springer
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    Decision support for emergency situations (2008)
    Springer
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    Publication Date: 2008-03-26
    Print ISSN: 1617-9846
    Electronic ISSN: 1617-9854
    Topics: Economics
    Published by Springer
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    A Study of Trust and Cooperation in the Nzoia River Basin Using a Water Policy Game (2018)
    Molecular Diversity Preservation International
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    Publication Date: 2018-12-08
    Description: Nzoia river basin county governments barely cooperate in water resources management to jointly increase the basin’s food and energy productivity levels, due to limited trust. In this paper, we propose a game-based approach that can be replicated in any river basin, to assess trust and collaboration processes. In particular, we used the pre-game, in-game, and post-game assessment results to assess the relationship between Cooperation and Competition; Trust and Trustworthiness; Trust and Distrust; and (Dis) trust, Complexity, and Uncertainty. The initial assessment of respondents’ propensity to trust (PTS) was divided into two variables (trust and trustworthiness) while adopting the unidimensional view of trust and distrust. We later examined whether we could separate the two constructs using a multidimensional scaling (MDS) technique known as the ALSCAL procedure. There are potentially significant results. Namely, that: trustworthiness and trust are not complementary; both cooperation and competition coexisted and increased throughout the game; more profound complexity and uncertainty led to an increment in trust, and reduced complexity and uncertainty led to a decrease in distrust. Based on the results and discussions, we provide recommendations for further research on trust, trustworthiness, and distrust in the river basin management context.
    Electronic ISSN: 2071-1050
    Topics: Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering
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    Influence of Personal Attributes and Demographic Diversity on Nzoia Basin Negotiation Outcomes (2019)
    Molecular Diversity Preservation International
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    Publication Date: 2019-01-29
    Description: The Kenyan government has made significant advances in water resources management at the local authority (county) level with little or no cooperation at the drainage basin level. Research on critical determinants of cooperation amongst transboundary water negotiation teams is limited. In this paper, we assess whether personal attribute diversity (PAD) is a stronger factor than demographic diversity (gender, age, and education play) in determining whether the negotiation team will cooperate or make unilateral actions. We use a negotiation game to study decisions taken by water policymakers. After that, we conduct a multiple discriminant analysis (MDA) to assess the influence of PAD, gender, age, and education on water negotiation outcomes. The findings indicate that PAD plays a significant role in determining whether the group will cooperate or compete. Gender, education, and age barely influence the outcome. Only upon removal of the PAD variable do we see an increase in the discriminant power of gender and education. Age has minimal influence on the negotiation outcomes. We apply the research at a lower level of governance (Nzoia River Basin). However, results might be extrapolated to a bigger basin, like the Nile Basin, through future multiple level analysis which takes account of the complex socio-technical systems.
    Electronic ISSN: 2073-4441
    Topics: Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering
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    From Paris Agreement to Action: Enhancing Climate Change Familiarity and Situation Awareness (2018)
    Molecular Diversity Preservation International
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    Publication Date: 2018-06-08
    Electronic ISSN: 2071-1050
    Topics: Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering
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    Methodology for Participatory GIS Risk Mapping and Citizen Science for Solotvyno Salt Mines (2018)
    Molecular Diversity Preservation International
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    Publication Date: 2018-11-19
    Description: The Horizon 2020 interim evaluation (2017) indicates a steep increase in citizen engagement in European Union Citizen Science (CS) projects, with less than 1% in budgetary terms and minimal influence. Research findings attribute weak CS influence to the restriction of citizen actions to data collection, with minimal or no engagement in co-design, co-creation, data analysis, and elucidation of results. We design a participatory GIS and CS methodology aimed at engaging the citizens in the entire Earth Observation (EO) project cycle. The methodology also seeks to address previous CS project challenges related to data quality, data interoperability, citizen-motivation, and participation. We draw the high-level requirements from the SENDAI framework of action and the three pillars of active citizen engagement, as enshrined in Principle 10 of the Rio Declaration and the Aarhus Convention. The primary input of the methodology is the Haklay (2018) approach for participatory mapping and CS, and the Reed (2009) stakeholder analysis framework. The proposed methodology comprises of three main parts: system analysis, stakeholder analysis, and a six-step methodology. We designed the six-step methodology using an iterative and flexible approach, to take account of unforeseen changes. Future research will focus on implementing the methodology and evaluating its effectiveness in the Solotvyno Saltmine case study in Ukraine.
    Electronic ISSN: 2072-4292
    Topics: Architecture, Civil Engineering, Surveying , Geography
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