Ryan Lanclos - Dealing with Disasters: GIS for Emergency Management

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Dealing with Disasters: GIS for Emergency Management (Applying GIS series)

Discover a modern approach to understanding threats and hazards that are more complex, costly, and devastating than ever before.

Dealing with Disasters: GIS for Emergency Management explores a collection of real-life case studies about emergency management agencies successfully using GIS for real and potential hazards. Each of the three themed partsDisaster Preparedness, Disaster Response, and Disaster Recoveryalso includes a getting started with GIS section that provides ideas, strategies, tools, and actions to help jump-start your own use of GIS for emergency management. A collection of online resources, including additional stories, videos, new ideas and concepts, and downloadable tools and content, complements this book.

Edited by Ryan Lanclos, the director of public safety solutions at Esri, and Matt Artz, an Esri content strategist.

Applying GIS

The Applying GIS series explains how to become a spatial thinker, with ideas and strategies for building location intelligence into your profession, industry, or discipline. Each pocket-size book is divided into relevant topic areas that include a set of case studies and a road map for getting started with GIS.

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Creating safer, less vulnerable communities requires a modern approach to understanding threats and hazards that are more complex, costly, and devastating than ever before. Agencies around the world rely on geographic information systems (GIS) every day to plan for and mitigate complex threats and hazards and coordinate response and recovery efforts when disasters and emergencies occur. With location intelligence, youll develop a deeper understanding of risk in any situation, and gain real-time data insights for faster, more effective decisions.

To effectively plan for, mitigate, and reduce risks, emergency management professionals must incorporate real-time data, big data, and other critical data feeds into their analysis. Data-driven insights help communities effectively prepare for worst-case scenarios. In part 1, well explore real-world examples of organizations using GIS for visualizing and analyzing risk, performing real-time analytics, managing mitigation projects, and communicating with the public.

Emergency management professionals must become more agile and informed at all points during response efforts. Successfully planning for and responding to growing threats requires agility and effective communication throughout an event. In part 2, well look at the ways that GIS tools have been used for robust situational awareness, rapid impact analysis, deploying resources, and communicating with the public.

Recovery efforts can take years, and its critical to avoid missteps that delay progress. Its essential to provide emergency management professionals with tools to prioritize work and deliver on every recovery dollar invested in a community. In part 3, well see how GIS can be used for better documentation and management of debris removal, distribution of resources, and transparent recovery monitoring.

Thanks to location technology and the internet, we have never had a better ability to model, measure, and map fast-developing events like hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, fires, or floods. The understanding that comes from this ability allows us to get inside the turning radius of the big challenges we face as a people. So, instead of merely reacting as we chase after a problem, were actually anticipating and getting ahead of the problem. We are modeling, we are measuring what works, and we are sharing with everyone in real time the latest emerging truth on a map.