Geospatial information is a fundamental component of many crisis management activities. However, current geospatial technologies do not support work by crisis management personnel, most of whom are not technology specialistsöa key impediment is that the technologies require the user to learn the system's language. In addition, geospatial technologies are not `collaboration friendly'öthey impede...

Risk and crisis management has become an important topic for public and private organizations. Nowadays, an important problem concerns the management of disasters (flooding, fire, nuclear explosion ...) in urban environments. To face such events, different actors like firefighters, mayors, or policemen have typically to deal with a wide amount of data, each at different decision levels. Aggrega...

Major challenges and crises in global health will not be solved by health alone; requiring rather a multidisciplinary, evidence-based analytical approach to prevention, preparedness and response. One such potential crisis is the continued spread of nuclear weapons to more nations concurrent with the increased volatility of international relations that has significantly escalated the risk of a m...

The March 2011 nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station affected both shortand long-term energy-security in Japan, resulting in crisis-driven, ad hoc energy policy and, because of the decision to shutter all nuclear reactors, increased the country’s demand for fossil fuels, primarily natural gas. However, the effects of the accident on energy security were not restricted ...

Part I brings together material suggesting that the current financial “crisis” may well have been engineered to strengthen the hand of a relatively small group of people who use international financial institutions to manage the planet more generally. It is concluded that, behind the financial crisis lies a public management crisis. Part II discusses the interlinked crises in our habitat. It se...

A friend told me recently that he is suffering from crisis fatigue. Open an issue of just about any medical journal , he said, and you will find at least one article warning of an impending critical shortage of professionals. This issue of JOGC is no exception; on page 598, the Maternal Fetal Medicine Committee of the SOGC draws our attention—quite correctly—to the looming MFM shortage in this ...

an the managers have experienced one kind of crisis or another in their organizations, and hence are willing to group and empower themselves in challenging them. this article while classifying the organizations in two categories as crisis accepting and crisis challenging, suggestion for making the organization as crisis challenging have been given. the process of crisis creation, three perspect...

in a crisis, daily life of people is threatened by disaster. the management of the crisis is both a science and an art in which attempts are made to restore the critical situation to a normal one, not necessarily to the same conditions which existed before the crisis took place. the ability of a manager to overcome the crisis depends on his readiness before it occurs. in this review article, th...