BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Disaster Management
- the actions taken by an organization in response to unexpected events that are adversely affecting people or resources and threatening the continued operation of the organization. Disaster management includes the development of disaster recovery plans, for minimizing the risk of disasters and for handling them when they do occur, and the implementation of such plans. Disaster management usually refers to the management of natural catastrophes such as fire, flooding, or earthquakes. Related techniques include crisis management, contingency management, and risk management.
Additional Resources
- SDI Conceptual Modeling For Disaster Management
- One of the main challenges of disaster management concerns to proper management of information. In more details, while most of the information required for disaster management has spatial component or location, current studies show that there are different problems with collection, dissemination, access and usage of spatial data/information for disaster...
- White papers 2005-09-19
- Horizontal political externalities: the supply and demand of disaster management.
- ABSTRACT This Article discusses the dynamics of shared political accountability and provides a supply- and demand-side analysis of disaster management. Because multiple levels of government share political accountability in national scale disasters, disaster management is subject to a collective action problem. Introducing the...
- Research articles 2006-10-01
- Elsevier Science will launch Disaster Management & Response in January. (Related News in Brief).
- Elsevier Science will launch Disaster Management & Response in January, a quarterly journal produced in partnership with the Emergency Nurses Association (Des Plaines, IL). The title will focus on the health care management of issues associated w Elsevier Science will launch Disaster Management & Response in...
- Research articles 2002-12-31
- ImageWare Systems Announces Disaster Management Solution
- SAN DIEGO -- ImageWare Systems, Inc. (AMEX:IW), a leading developer and provider of identity management solutions, today announced the company continues to deliver comprehensive identity management capabilities with the launch of its IWSTM Disaster Management solution suite designed specifically to address mission-critical disaster recovery and emergency management initiatives.
- Research articles 2006-07-26
- Tsunami provides an opportunity to rethink disaster management: World Bank.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-19 January 2005-WORLD BANK: Tsunami provides an opportunity to rethink disaster management: World BankC1994-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:01172005 KOBE, JAPAN - The December 26 tsunami provides an opportunity to rethink the world's approaches to natural disasters and development, a...
- Research articles 2005-01-19
- Disaster management in the United States: examining key political and policy challenges.
- The failures associated with the Hurricane Katrina response call attention to the challenges of, and the need to better understand disaster management practices in the United States. This article reviews several recent contributions to the field of disaster research and considers four key issues: the concept of disaster vulnerability, how...
- Research articles 2007-05-01
- Sustainability And Disaster Management
- Sustainability is a integrative policy agenda often treated as unrelated to disaster management. This paper argues that not only are the two domains related, but are closely connected in terms of substantive issues and of underlying research and policy challenges. The paper examines shared attributes of problems in sustainability and...
- White papers 2004-03-01
- ISRAEL: MAGEN DAVID ADOM WORKSHOP.(disaster management workshop)(Brief Article)
- Magen David Adom in Israel MDA is hosting its first ever disaster management workshop on November 10th and 11th,. The workshop is organized in cooperation with the International Committee of the Red Cross ICRC, the International Federation of Re Magen David Adom in Israel MDA...
- Research articles 2003-11-09
- WORLD BANK: World Bank finances emergency recovery and disaster management program for the Caribbean.
- 3 M2 PRESSWIRE-11 December 1998-WORLD BANK: World Bank finances emergency recovery and disaster management program for the Caribbean C1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD3 RDATE:101298 The World Bank today announced the approval of two credits and three loans totaling...
- Research articles 1998-12-11
- World Bank approves US$7.5 million for disaster management in St. Lucia.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-23 June 2004-WORLD BANK: World Bank approves US$7.5 million for disaster management in St. LuciaC1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:06222004 Washington - The World Bank approved today a total of US$7.5 million in financing for St. Lucia to reduce the country's...
- Research articles 2004-06-23
- An Approach Toward A Decentralised Disaster Management Information Network
- The existing Disaster Management DM approaches are quite unstructured and are usually centralised in nature with the instructions following some sort of fixed hierarchy. This results in poor resource management and hence inefficiency. Since Disasters themselves are unstructured in scope and hence can't be managed centrally, there is a need...
- White papers 2004-06-07
- Lessons Learned From Disaster Management
- The DEFACTO system is a multiagent based tool for training incident commanders of large scale disasters. In this paper, we highlight some of the lessons that we have learned from our interaction with the Los Angeles Fire Department LAFD and how they have affected the way that we continued the...
- White papers 2006-02-08
- National Institutional Capacities For Disaster Management
- This paper considers issues pertaining to national institutional disaster management systems, with particular reference to Ethiopia. It further describes the concept of "Humanitarian governance" and suggests that it may be an effective way of addressing some of the shortcomings of the current international and national responses to humanitarian crises. The...
- White papers 2003-01-15
- MyRapidMD, a Medical Alert Company, Invited to Attend FEMA Region IX Collaboration & Disaster Management Solutions Conference
- MARINA DEL REY, Calif. -- MyRapidMD has been invited to attend the CDMS conference sponsored by FEMA Region IX and the American Red Cross. As an invite only event the uniqueness of a CDMS conference is its size. CDMS provides a very unique and hands on environment for its attendees...
- Research articles 2008-01-28
- US Coast Guard San Francisco Puts Coach2100 Technology to the Test; Breakthrough Disaster Management System Proves Real-Time Interoperability and Information-Sharing Capabilities in Destroyed Infrastructure Environment
- SAN FRANCISCO -- COACH2100, Inc., the leader in Command and Control Disaster Management applications, today announced the successful demonstration and testing of its technology by the United States Coast Guard Sector San Francisco USCG San Francisco. Coach2100 demonstrated that its technology is capable in assisting the agency during a destroyed...
- Research articles 2006-09-13
- Drexel University to Host "ReadinessNow": A Summit for Disaster Management Training
- PHILADELPHIA -- On October 23, 2006 local corporations, first responders and subject matter experts will gather at Drexel University for the area's first ReadinessNow Summit for disaster management training, featuring Mark Schweiker, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, as keynote speaker along with Dr....
- Research articles 2006-10-17
- WB UN PROCUREMENT - IRAN, DISASTER MANAGEMENT.
- *** Asia Pulse Tender *** WORLD BANK UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT BUSINESS SERVICE PROCUREMENTS - SEPTEMBER 2004 Country: Iran Project: EARTHQUAKE EMERGENCY RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT Financing: World Bank Abstract: LOCAL DISASTER MANAGEMENT ASSESSMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY...
- Research articles 2004-09-16
- GIS at Ground Zero: Spatial Technology Bolsters World Trade Center response and recovery. (Disaster Management).(geographic information systems)
- Since the World Trade Center atrocities on Sept. 11, news reports have described at length the heroic efforts of fire, police and many other professionals responding to New York's urban trauma. New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and his fire and police commissioners demonstrated tremendous compassion...
- Research articles 2002-01-01
- Disaster management training.(NBC Preparedness Showcase)
- Environmental Tectonics Corp. introduces the latest Advanced Disaster Management Simulator ADMS product, ADMS-COMMAND, an entry-level, modular system developed for emergency response agencies with limited training space, or other financial or operational restrictions. ADMS-COMMAND is a single laptop-based training simulator, which is expandable into a team...
- Research articles 2006-09-01
- Central Africa focuses on telecommunications to meet emergencies; Workshop on strengthening ICT for disaster management concludes in Yaounde, Cameroon.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-1 June 2007-International Telecommunication Union ITU: Central Africa focuses on telecommunications to meet emergencies; Workshop on strengthening ICT for disaster management concludes in Yaounde, CameroonC1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:01062007 Geneva -- Experts from governments, international organizations, the private sector...
- Research articles 2007-06-01
