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PAPERBACK price:$21.00 add to cart Rights & Permissions Free PDF Access Sign in to download PDF book and chapters Free Resources PDF SUMMARY Display this book on your site! Related Titles Facing Hazards and Disasters: Understanding Human Dimensions A Safer Future:Reducing the Impacts of Natural Disasters Other Related Titles Reducing Disaster Losses Through Better Information (1999) Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources (CGER) Citation Manager Export the bibliographic data for this book in your chosen format Web Search Builder Use this book's key terms to search within this book, across our collection, or across the Web. Skim This Chapter Skim this chapter and use this chapter's key terms to search within this book. Reference Finder Paste in your own text to find books that relate to your topic. Citation Manager . "Appendix A: Workshop Agenda." Reducing Disaster Losses Through Better Information. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 1999. Please select a format: Page 49   E-mail Share on facebook Facebook Share on delicious Delicious Share on stumbleupon Stumble Share on twitter Twitter More Sharing ServicesMore The following HTML text is provided to enhance online readability. Many aspects of typography translate only awkwardly to HTML. Please use the page image as the authoritative form to ensure accuracy. Appendix A Workshop Agenda “The Role of an Information Network in Reducing Losses from Natural Disasters” Board on Natural Disasters Green Building, Room 126 2001 Wisconsin Ave., NW Washington, D.C. June 22–24, 1998 Monday, June 22 Open Session: 9:00 a.m. Discussion of study goals and expectations 10:00 Break 10:10 Global Disaster Information Network—Overview and Discussion Peter Ward 11:00 Current Examples of Disaster Information Integration   Remote Sensing, GIS, and the Intranet Andrew Bruzewicz Atmospheric Release Advisory Capability Thomas Sullivan, U.S. Department of Energy 12:00 p.m. Lunch Page 49 Front Matter (R1-R10) Executive Summary (1-3) 1 Introduction (4-11) 2 Information for Decision Making (12-24) 3 Benefits and Challenges of an Integrated Disaster Information Network (25-37) 4 Conclusions and Recommendations (38-44) References (45-48) Appendix A: Workshop Agenda (49-51) Appendix B: Federal Disaster Information Centers (52-57) Appendix C: Biographies of BOND Members (58-61)

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--> 1:00 p.m. Presentations   Crisis Management and Oil Spill Training Mike Collins, Ship Analytics International Emergency Information System (EIS)/InfoBook Jim Morentz, Essential Technologies, Inc. 2:00 Issues for Consideration (to stimulate later discussion)   Discussion leaders (10 minutes each)     Kevin Stewart—Information availability and the needs of entities engaged in flood prediction and response John Hwang—Information needs of local government for emergency management Dave Jones—Disaster information with respect to public perception and response Joanne Nigg—Warning and disaster information systems: User perspectives Lloyd Cluff—General needs of the industrial sector, public utilities in particular, for various types of information 3:10 Break 3:20 Open Discussion 4:10 Report Outline and Writing Assignments 5:30 Recess for the day Tuesday, June 23 8:30 a.m. Working Group Writing Sessions 12:30 p.m. Lunch

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