Confronting Catastrophe: A GIS Handbook - Softcover

Greene, R W

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1589480406 ISBN 13: 9781589480407

Publisher: ESRI Press, 2002

Synopsis

Confronting Catastrophe: A GIS Handbook demonstrates how the digital mapping and analysis tools of GIS technology can be critical for comprehensive preparation and quick response to disastrous events. This book takes readers through the five stages of management: identification and planning, mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery and shows how GIS processes can be incorporated into each. With full-color maps, checklists, and the hard lessons learned from the real world of catastrophe response and preparedness, ""Confronting Catastrophe"" is a hands-on manual for GIS practitioners and decision makers whose communities face the threat of large-scale disasters.

About this title

Synopsis:

Showing how geographic information systems (GIS) technology can provide crucial and timely information and analysis to organisations involved in emergency response and homeland security, this hands-on manual is written for communities that face the threat of large-scale disasters, whether they be wildfires, hurricanes, earthquakes, or terrorist attacks. With full-colour maps depicting the landscape of real catastrophic events, community checklists, and lessons learned from the real world of catastrophe response and preparedness, this manual is essential reading for communities that seek to make themselves more prepared should the unthinkable happen. Included are examples of how technology-savvy organisations have used the digital mapping and analysis tools of GIS technology to help in response to disasters.

About the Author:

R. W. Greene is a former staff writer and editor at ESRI Press. He is a graduate of the Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Reporting at the Ohio State University and author of GIS in Public Policy.

About this edition

• Publisher: ESRI Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1589480406
• ISBN 13: 9781589480407
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 154