Investigating the significance of disaster information management

Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies

 
 
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Title Investigating the significance of disaster information management
 
Creator Mutasa, Mukundi
 
Subject — disaster risk management; disaster risk reduction; information management; knowledge management
Description Disaster information informs disaster risk management interventions. However, it is the systematic management of this key resource that has not yet been fully embraced. In some cases, information is still haphazardly collected, analysed, managed and disseminated. This paper, utilising mainly secondary literature sources, explores the importance of disaster information and its systematic management in disaster risk management programming. It presents challenges associated with information management in disaster situations and critiques the trend whereby the collection, management and dissemination of information are usually limited to disaster situations. This only serves to further marginalise post-disaster recovery processes, which are integral with regard to generating knowledge essential for the formulation of future disaster mitigation strategies. The paper concludes by arguing for the integration of disaster information management into current disaster risk management curriculum.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
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Date 2013-02-14
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — —
Format text/html application/octet-stream text/xml application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/jamba.v5i2.73
 
Source Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies; Vol 5, No 2 (2013); 6 pages 2072-845X 1996-1421
 
Language eng
 
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Rights Copyright (c) 2013 Mukundi Mutasa https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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