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Confronting Catastrophe
A GIS Handbook
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GIS technology has become the one unifying component that
every community can use to plan for, respond to, and recover from, major
disasters—whether these are natural events such as hurricanes, or the man-made
destruction of terrorist attack. By giving responders and disaster managers a
way to analyze each stage of a disaster visually and to synthesize complex
information sets, GIS permits swifter decision-making and better communication.
Confronting Catastrophe: A GIS Handbook is a hands-on guide for both
emergency-operations and GIS managers, as well as for government
decision-makers, on ways to best to implement GIS into disaster management.
The book takes readers through the five stages of that
management—Identification and Planning, Mitigation, Preparedness, Response and
Recovery—and shows how GIS processes can be incorporated into each. Using
real-word examples from agencies across the country, the book offers practical
insights on using GIS technology to bring efficiency and speed to life-saving
work.
About the author:
R. W. Greene, staff writer and editor at ESRI Press, is a
graduate of the Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Reporting at The Ohio State
University, and author of GIS in Public Policy, Open Access: GIS in
e-Government and
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