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Dam break emergency response Information System
Maria A. Santos
António Gonçalves
Sandra Silva
Nuno Charneca
Miguel Gamboa
B. Van de Walle, B.C.
Although considered of low risk, incidents with dams may cause significant damage both directly and indirectly. Direct losses are usually easier to assess (assuming human lives are quantifiable), but indirect losses are difficult to measure and may take some time before the original situation is restored. Disaster prevention and vulnerability reduction have been topics of major concern in many local, national or international organisations for some years. These can be accomplished through emergency management which begins with hazard identification and planning for disaster mitigation but encompasses other activities as risk analysis, risk response and recovery. Therefore, an emergency management system with capacity to: i) forecast critical situations; ii) warn the population as well as the authorities; and iii) support the civil protection system to deal with an emergency, is a most helpful tool to minimize the impact of an accident. The Information System described herein fulfils mainly the third objective, i.e. it is intended to help the Civil Protection System in Portugal, to respond to an emergency caused by the failure of a dam. It is an Internet-based application, which integrates all relevant data for the implementation of a dam emergency plan. These data include the main characteristics of the dam and its reservoir, the character-isation of the dam downstream valley as well as the response procedures to be followed in an emergency. © Proceedings ISCRAM 2004.
urn:ISBN:9076971080
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url:http://idl.iscram.org/show.php?record=198
citekey:MariaA.Santos_etal2004
citation:Maria A. Santos, António Gonçalves, Sandra Silva, Nuno Charneca, & Miguel Gamboa. (2004). Dam break emergency response Information System. In B. C. B. Van de Walle (Ed.), Proceedings of ISCRAM 2004 – 1st International Workshop on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (pp. 27-32). Brussels: Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium.
2004
ConferencePaper
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Civil defense
Dams
Disaster prevention
Disasters
Information systems
Internet
Management information systems
Reservoirs (water)
Risk management
Dam-breaks
Emergence
Emergency management systems
Emergency Response Information Systems
Hazard identification
Internet based
Internet-based applications
Vulnerability reductions
Emergency services
file:http://idl.iscram.org/files/santos/2004/198_Santos_etal2004.pdf
Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium
English
2411-3387
Proceedings of ISCRAM 2004 – 1st International Workshop on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
2004
27
32
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