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Introduction to Disaster Management: Lesson 5—Technologies of Disaster Management

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Frederick C. Cuny
Frederick C. Cuny
Affiliation:
INTERTECT, Dallas, Texas, USA
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Disaster managers should be familiar with certain technologies or sets of information used in disaster management. Among the more important are mapping, interpretation of aerial photography, communications, information management, logistics and computer applications, epidemiology, and preventive medicine.

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Continuing Education
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , December 1993 , pp. 372 - 374
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Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1993

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