This book proposes the use of knowledge management strategy incorporating security to assist in this analysis and specifically warns against just adopting social media for crisis response without first considering its impact on and risk to the organization and its members. The [...] chapters will support readers in determining these impacts and risks. It is my hope that readers will get sufficient knowledge and tools from these chapters to support their crisis response management researches and/or initiatives.
– Murray E. Jennex, San Diego State University, USA
Expanded from their version in the first volume of the International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, 17 articles explore technical approaches to emergency response. Researchers in computer and information science, organizations, security, and other fields consider such topics as the past as the future of emergency preparedness and management, web-based group decision support for crisis management, multilingual crisis knowledge representation, supporting flexibility and improvisation in collaborative command and control, emergency messaging to the general public through public wireless networks, a unified localized emergency events scale, and initial requirements of a national crisis decision support system. This begins a projected annual series.
– Book News, Reference - Research Book News - August 2011