Natural Disasters and Complex Emergencies: Geo-Referencing their Human Impacts
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1) GIS can act as an interoperable platform to integrate disparate data from various sources and make it accessible for emergency response.
2) Lessons from Hurricane Katrina showed that a lack of standardized data and GIS applications across regions hindered coordination between organizations and led to confusion during the crisis response.
3) Having an integrated GIS database with consistent data models and applications in place before a disaster can save precious time during emergency response and recovery efforts.
Birkmann Unu Ehs Spider Bonn Ws 2008
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