Despite preemptive preparations, disasters can and do occur. Whether natural disasters, catastrophic accidents, or terrorist attacks, the risk cannot be completely eliminated. A carefully prepared response is your best defense. Handbook of Emergency Response: A Human Factors and Systems Engineering Approach presents practical advice and guidelines

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Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Editors
Contributors
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Robotic technologies for first response: A review
Chapter 2 - A practical, simplified chemical agent sensor placement methodology
Chapter 3 - Harnessing disruptive technologies: Quick systems engineering for emergency response
Chapter 4 - An emerging framework for unmanned aircraft systems in the national airspace system: Opportunities and challenges for first responders and emergency management
Chapter 5 - Optimization in evacuation route planning
Chapter 6 - Evacuation planning, analysis, and management
Chapter 7 - Hierarchical optimization for helicopter mission planning in large-scale emergencies
Chapter 8 - Planning and management of transportation systems for evacuation
Chapter 9 - Riverflow prediction for emergency response: Military applications using artificial neural networks
Chapter 10 - Understanding the influence of the “cry wolf hypothesis” and “false alarm effect” on public response to emergency warnings
Chapter 11 - Accessible emergency management: A human factors engineering approach
Chapter 12 - Framework for preparing for the unprepared
Chapter 13 - Lest we forget: A critical analysis of bioterrorist incidents, national exercises, and U.S. prevention, response, and recovery strategies
Chapter 14 - Resilience to WMD: Communication and active participation are key
Chapter 15 - First responders: A biomechanical evaluation of supply distribution
Chapter 16 - Dynamics and dangers of therapeutic strategies for organophosphate poisoning: A physiologically based model
Chapter 17 - Coordinated project systems approach to emergency response
Chapter 18 - Overcoming obstacles to integrated response among incongruent organizations
Chapter 19 - Decisions in disaster recovery operations: A game theoretic perspective on organization cooperation
Chapter 20 - Integrating Department of Defense response with nongovernmental organizations during a disaster
Chapter 21 - Time is a murderer: The cost of critical path drag in emergency response
Chapter 22 - Coordination and control in emergency response
Chapter 23 - Managing the complexities of incident command
Chapter 24 - Begin with the end in mind: An all-hazards systems approach to waste management planning for homeland security incidents
Chapter 25 - Creating effective response communications
Chapter 26 - Assessing the state of knowledge about emergency management in other countries
Chapter 27 - Framework for real-time, all-hazards global situational awareness
Chapter 28 - All-hazards response team preparation: Planning and training concepts
Chapter 29 - Medical supply chain resiliency in disasters
Chapter 30 - Decision support for inland waterways emergency response
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