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4 Conclusions and Recommendations
4 Conclusions and Recommendations
Pages 38-44
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Chapter 3 establishes the need for an improved disaster information system. There can be no justification for continuing in the current mode of nonstandard disparate resources when available modern technologies would make their linkage into one system a relatively straightforward matter, with obvious potential payoffs in saving lives and reducing losses if the system is utilized effectively.
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· Successful implementation of the DIN concept will require a commitment of resources from a broad spectrum of stakeholders. Although the costs of establishing a DIN would not be large compared with its likely benefits or the investments already made in developing data and information resources, maintaining a DIN would require additional expenditures and commitments from the organizations involved.
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The critical prerequisite is systematic and continuous involvement of an information users' representative from the disaster management community in the design, development, operation, and maintenance ofthe DIN throughout its evolution. Involvement means establishment of a user/provider forum wherein information users and data providers openly discuss their capabilities and needs and together address each of the major natural hazards in the context of each of the four emergency management system phases (mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery)
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To accomplish this, standards and protocols should be agreed on by a representative group of potential users and information providers. Existing information integration models should be assessed to facilitate discussion and identify the pros and cons of various approaches.
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Some of the most useful information products for disaster management could be derived by merging real-time with archival information. Some examples are as follows: · Preparing for an approaching hurricane requires incorporating meteorological data into models that predict storm track and storm surge and then overlaying the results on maps showing population distribution' evacu ~ 0 - - -- -- -- - -- r - - - - - 0 r -r -- -- - - -- - - - -- - - ~ - - -- - at~on routes, deployment of emergency personnel and supplies, and other relevant response information.
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Potential means and methods include private nets such as Intranet or Extranet, which allow controlled access to special communities, thus avoiding some connectivity problems in time of emergencies. At the source nodes, aHowances for emergency managers to have priority access to information in time for decision making should be implemented.
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Disasters are worldwide issues, and many of the relevant phenomena are global in nature. The International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction~ has heightened global awareness of the value of disaster information and opened lines of communication relevant to disaster issues, factors that should help facilitate extension of a DIN from U.S.
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