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What is Fragility – Fragile, At Risk, Environments

Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition
Easily broken, shattered, or damaged; delicate; brittle; frail: a fragile ceramic container; a very fragile alliance, also applies to communities, regions or nations with limited capacity or infrastructure to recover from calamity.
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Information Science and Technology in Crisis Response and Management
Randy Basham (University of Texas at Arlington, USA)
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 12
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2255-3.ch121
Abstract
Emergent technological innovations in robotics and miniaturization of robotics, drone technologies, acoustical sensors, and others are revolutionizing the effectiveness of crisis response and management efforts, on smaller local events, and in combination, may be applied to larger disaster events such as major community or regional crises. This article will define and identify the essential component parts of effective information driven and technological based crises response and management, as well as larger systems to address disasters as crises events.
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