Disaster Management

1 August 2009 by Jim Bennett

“Disaster Management: The Structure, Function, and Significance of Network-Centric Operations”, reveals how poor information flow both within and among the organizations/agencies involved in the preparation for, and management of, disasters is among the principal source of failures whose cost often reaches millions of dollars and thousands of unnecessarily lost lives. The authors show how the use of a network-centric approach to disaster management has several advantages in handling information/knowledge and tasks associated with complex, multi-domain operations.

This is consistent with well developed organisational maturity involving continuous learning and collaboration.