Conference proceeding
Managing multihazards risk in metropolitan USA
Proceedings of SPIE, v 5048(1), pp 1-16
16 Jul 2003
Abstract
This proposal outlines an action plan for risk management in the Delaware Valley Metropolitan Region. This plan is consistent with the goals for strengthening homeland security announced by President Bush, and is designed to complement efforts currently under development by Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency and Department of Health. This plan proposes the formation of a Delaware Valley Risk Management Consortium, representing the critical disciplines and organizations related to risk assessment and management. This group would have membership from academic institutions, government agencies, industry, and nonprofit organizations. This Consortium would develop a systemic scope of work with the appropriate recommendations for technology acquisition, development and integration with risk management policies and procedures. This scope of work would include the development of two related information systems for the Delaware Valley Region. The first would be a comprehensive 'health monitoring' system to assess the continuity of operations, which would use integrated remote sensing and imaging, information gathering, communication, computation, and, information processing and management over wide-area networks covering the entire metropolitan area. The second would use real-time information from the health monitoring system to support interactive communication, search and information exchange needed to coordinate action among the relevant agencies to mitigate risk, respond to hazards and manage its resources efficiently and effectively.
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- Title
- Managing multihazards risk in metropolitan USA
- Creators
- A. Emin Aktan - Drexel UniversityLouise K Comfort - University of PittsburghDonald S Shanis - Planning Commission (India)
- Publication Details
- Proceedings of SPIE, v 5048(1), pp 1-16
- Publisher
- SPIE
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- [Retired Faculty]
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000185330900001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-0242609932
- Other Identifier
- 991019182664204721
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- Engineering, Multidisciplinary
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