期刊名称：Journal of Information Science and Technology
印刷版ISSN：1545-0287
出版年度：2008
卷号：5
期号：1
页码：3-30
语种：English
出版社：International Medical Journal Management and Indexing System
摘要：This study focuses on a first responder perspective of lessons learned from secondary information of Katrina and Rita hurricane disasters. The paper integrates key lessons enunciated in major national news papers and television broadcasts with opinions from domain experts. It then draws a consensus among a large group of domain experts who are first responders, regarding the urgency and importance of the issues. The paper prioritizes the list of issues for better mitigation of disasters in the future. In addition the paper also discusses some of the actions communities in non-disaster areas have taken based on the way the hurricane mitigation was handled on the gulf coast during the Katrina & Rita disasters.
