The handbook of disaster and emergency policies and institutions

Disasters both natural and human-induced are leading to spiralling costs in terms of human lives, lost livelihoods and damaged assets and businesses. Yet these consequences and the financial and human crises that follow catastrophes can often be traced to policies unsuited to the emerging scales of the problems they confront, and the lack of institutional capacity to implement planning and prev…

Geo-information for disaster management

Geo-information technology offers an opportunity to support disaster management: industrial accidents, road collisions, complex emergencies, earthquakes, fires, floods and similar catastrophes (for example the recent huge disaster with the Tsunami in South-East Asia on 26 December 2004). Access to needed information, facilitation of the interoperability of emergency services, and provision of h…

Disaster management handbook

Introduces the theoretical constructs and conceptual foundations of disaster management. This book examines case studies of natural disasters around the world, and compares and contrasts the efficacy of different management strategies from national, provincial, and local governments, as well as non-governmental agencies.

Disaster management and preparedness

Detailing methods for preparing organizations for disasters, this book discusses tried and true tactics and areas often overlooked during the reactive and post-disaster phases. It addresses special considerations important in planning for disaster management, from chemical spills, floods, and terrorist attacks to catastrophic events.

Disaster management and civil society: earthquake relief in Japan, Turkey and…

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

9781845110536

Collation

xiv, 142 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Series Title

International library of postwar reconstruction and development ; 1

Call Number

[TIN-LIB-97]

Chaos organization and disaster management

The Official Organizing of Chaos Creating Disasters Preparing for the Worst Are Disaster Agencies Effective? The Other Side-Victims Perspective The Power of Tradition The Odds of Being a Victim The Mother Hen Effect Alternative Organizational Forms Disaster Communities as Survival Mechanisms Privatizing Disaster Management

Production development: design and operation of production systems

Production development is about improving existing production systems and developing new ones. The production system should be developed in integration with the product, as a part of the overall product realization process, and not in sequence after the product has already been designed. Production Development: Design and Operation of Production Systems takes a holistic viewpoint on the product…

Business dynamics: systems thinking and modeling for a complex world

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

0072311355

Collation

xxvi, 982 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. + 1 computer optical

Series Title

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Call Number

[TIN-LIB-13]

Operations and supply management: the core

Jacobs and Chase continue to lead the field of Operations Management with cutting edge up-to-date content, technology, and motivation. Now, in this Second Edition Jacobs and Chase focus on the core concepts of operations and supply management. This condensed text was constructed with sections on the four essential core areas—strategy, process management, supply chain management, and inventory…

Database system concepts

Database System Concepts by Silberschatz, Korth and Sudarshan is now in its 6th edition and is one of the cornerstone texts of database education. It presents the fundamental concepts of database management in an intuitive manner geared toward allowing students to begin working with databases as quickly as possible. The text is designed for a first course in databases at the junior/senior under…