Showing papers on "Disaster recovery published in 1991"

Recovery From Natural Disaster: Travel Writers And Tourist Destinations

Abstract: Mass media complicate tourist industry disaster recovery, as coveragepassesfrom hard news to feature writers. A survey of travel writers following the 1989 San Francisco earthquake identifies their recovery stage attitudes and newsgathering techniques. The authors suggest strategies to build loyalty to assist destinations in lessening negative media coverage.

Managing natural disasters and the environment : selected materials from the Colloquium on the Environment and Natural Disaster Management

Abstract: The purpose of this report is to explore the relationship of environmental degradation and vulnerability to disaster and their combined effects on both natural and man-made habitats. The papers gathered in this volume represent the concerns expressed at the colloquium sponsored by the World Bank on June 27-28, 1990, in Washington, D.C. The contributions in this report have been grouped around four main topics: strategic issues, development (from vulnerability to resilience), risk management, and the coordination of efforts to reduce vulnerability to disaster. Papers in the first section examine the implications of strategic global, systematic, and survival issues; in the second section, the continuum of responses to disaster, from vulnerability to resilience, examining diferent approaches to ensuring the sustainability of development; the third section, focuses on risk management and; the fourth and final section, describes local, national, and international efforts to coordinate prevention, mitigation, and recovery efforts.

Designing an interactive, intelligent, spatial information system for international disaster assistance

Abstract: The complexity of disaster environments poses an extraordinary burden on human decision makers to take timely, appropriate action in uncertain conditions. The information load escalates beyond our limited cognitive capacity for processing information, yet timely action is critical when lives are at risk. The information burden increases with scope and complexity in disaster environments, impeding action despite available resources and committed personnel. The author argues that if individual and organizational learning processes can be increased in complex disaster environments, this knowledge may be shared with the wider international community to generate a stronger capacity to reduce the risk of, and losses from, disaster; and offers a design for an interactive, intelligent spatial information system which can provide decision-makers with flexible capacity to obtain an overview of the entire set of disaster response operations while retaining the capacity vfor detailed examination of specific problems at any given time.

Disaster Recovery Planning: Networks, Telecommunications, Data Communications

Abstract: Addressing total disaster recovery planning, management, and the restoration process for telecommunications, this work covers the myriad of technologies currently available, why a disaster recovery plan is necessary, how to effectively sell it to management and how to put it all together.

Flood Disaster Experience: A Six-Months Perspective

Abstract: Currently there appears to be a spate of world, national and local disasters. Always there is concern, not only about how to manage the immediate emergency, but how to facilitate the long-term recovery period. This paper presents a six-months perspective of a particular disaster and recovery period, based on the experiences of a recovery worker. It emphasises the importance of routine training for workers in organisations who may be called upon in a disaster. It notes that because of the unique situation in every disaster, decision making on recovery structures and processes needs to remain invested in the local community, with assistance from external resources. It makes other suggestions for consideration in the continuing building of recovery theory. Finally, it underlines the importance of the social work role in most aspects of disaster recovery work, and the need to prepare not only undergraduates, but professional workers, for this role.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Automated Information Security Handbook

Abstract: The NASA Automated Information Security Handbook provides NASA's overall approach to automated information systems security including discussions of such aspects as: program goals and objectives, assignment of responsibilities, risk assessment, foreign national access, contingency planning and disaster recovery, awareness training, procurement, certification, planning, and special considerations for microcomputers.