Multiple perspectives on planning for emergencies: An introduction to the special issue on planning and foresight for emergency preparedness and management

Turoff, Murray; Hiltz, Starr Roxanne; Bañuls, Víctor A.; Eede, Gerd Van Den

doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2013.07.014

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“…A final point of departure for future work is related to the observation by Turoff et al (2013) that social media may not be as useful for effective collaboration as systems directly designed for crisis planning and response. Social media certainly entail opportunities for mobilisation like cleaning the streets during the riots, however we are not fully aware of how these activities can be planned or encouraged more systematically and what is the relationship with emergency systems that are based on closed information flows.…”

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“…Dorasamy et al, 2013), social media have created much more open and ubiquitous information flows between authorities and the public. This is one of the reasons why Turoff et al (2013) more specifically suggest that social media merit further attention with regard to their potential to engage with the public during emergencies. This paper focuses on the role of social media in communicating risks to the public during emergency events.…”

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Social media in emergency management: Twitter as a tool for communicating risks to the public

Panagiotopoulos

Barnett

Bigdeli

et al. 2016

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

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One of the main challenges of emergency management lies in communicating risks to the public. On some occasions, risk communicators might seek to increase awareness over emerging risks, while on others the aim might be to avoid escalation of public reactions. Social media accounts offer an opportunity to rapidly distribute critical information and in doing so to mitigate the impact of emergencies by influencing public reactions. This article draws on theories of risk and emergency communication in order to consider the impact of Twitter as a tool for communicating risks to the public. We analyse 10,020 Twitter messages posted by the official accounts of UK local government authorities (councils) in the context of two major emergencies: the heavy snow of December 2010 and the riots of August 2011. Twitter was used in a variety of ways to communicate and manage associated risks including messages to provide official updates, encourage protective behaviour, increase awareness and guide public attention to mitigating actions. We discuss the importance of social media as means of increasing confidence in emergency management institutions.

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Social media in emergency management: Twitter as a tool for communicating risks to the public

Panagiotopoulos

Barnett

Bigdeli

et al. 2016

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

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“…However, as suggested by Comfort et al (2012), a more systematic study of social media is needed to improve public response. Turoff et al (2013) is also of the same view, and have appealed to the research community to devise methods to improve citizen-engagement during emergencies. Quick and accurate responses from the leaders during disaster may boost their personal political standing (Ulku et al 2015).…”

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Event classification and location prediction from tweets during disasters

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Social media is a platform to express one's view in real time. This real time nature of social media makes it an attractive tool for disaster management, as both victims and officials can put their problems and solutions at the same place in real time. We investigate the Twitter post in a flood related disaster and propose an algorithm to identify victims asking for help. The developed system takes tweets as inputs and categorizes them into high or low priority tweets. User location of high priority tweets with no location information is predicted based on historical locations of the users using the Markov model. The system is working well, with its classification accuracy of 81%, and location prediction accuracy of 87%. The present system can be extended for use in other natural disaster situations, such as earthquake, tsunami, etc., as well as man-made disasters such as riots, terrorist attacks etc. The present system is first of its kind, aimed at helping victims during disasters based on their tweets.

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“…And there are several such technologies already deployed to achieve this goal. Let's discuss such techniques made for this sole purpose [1].…”

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Low Cost Emergency Android Base Paging

Sheikh¹,

Kulsoom²

2017

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Number of disasters is increasing day by day. A large number of people get affected by these disasters. The most immediate action to take once some disaster has occurred is to visit that location and provide facilities to the victims of disaster. This approach i.e. to provide services to the affected victims should be as timelier and as soon possible to save maximum lives and other properties from disasters. This paper discusses and analyzes that how are the services provided by disaster management systems by detection of disaster in immediate manner, how we can improve this system to identify the affected area immediately and to reach over there with minimum delay. It also discusses that what sort of network architecture and paging mechanism can be designed for better communication with minimum delay. General TermsDisaster Management

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Multiple perspectives on planning for emergencies: An introduction to the special issue on planning and foresight for emergency preparedness and management

Cited by 38 publications

References 5 publications

Social media in emergency management: Twitter as a tool for communicating risks to the public

Social media in emergency management: Twitter as a tool for communicating risks to the public

Event classification and location prediction from tweets during disasters

Low Cost Emergency Android Base Paging

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