The rise of IT and communications technologies to improve decision support in emergency and disaster management

Often subordinated to situational awareness in global scholarship and real-world analysis, decision support is meant to enable agencies and entities to detect and report incidents automatically, as well as dynamically adapt resource allocation and dispatch approaches, particularly when the environment in which emergencies occur changes (Pettet et al).

This presentation from Stephen Foreman will focus on advanced IT and communications technologies for decision support in emergency and disaster management.