Argonne Publications about Emergency Preparedness for People with Access and Functional Needs
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| Citation |
Year |
Publication Type |
Summary |
| Kuiper, J., E. Tanzman, and W. Metz, Special Population Planner: A GIS-based Emergency Planning System, presented to the American Nuclear Society 2nd Joint Emergency Preparedness and Response and Robotics and Remote Systems Topical Meeting, Albuquerque, NM, March 10, 2008. |
2008 |
Conference Presentation |
The presentation describes how managing special needs issues are a complex yet important part of emergency planning and response. |
| Tanzman, E., W. Metz, and J. Kuiper, Registry-Based Emergency Planning for Persons with Special Needs, International Association of Emergency Managers 55th Annual Conference, Reno, NV, November 12, 2007. |
2007 |
Conference Presentation |
The presentation describes the identification process, outreach initiatives to increase self-sufficiency, planning based on risk and/or need, and the special equipment and services provided. |
| Tanzman, E., W.C. Metz, and J. Kuiper, Emergency Planning for Persons with Special Needs Residing Near Chemical Weapons Destruction Facilities, presented to the 10th International Chemical Weapons Demilitarisation Conference and Exhibition, Brussels, Belgium, May 18, 2007. |
2007 |
Conference Presentation |
The presentation describes the identification process, outreach initiatives to increase self-sufficiency and the special equipment and services provided. |
| Metz, W.C., and E. Tanzman, Special Populations Preparedness, presented to the Big City Emergency Managers’ Forum, Chicago, IL, February 1, 2006. |
2006 |
Conference Presentation |
The presentation describes the legal requirements of emergency preparedness for those with special needs and the options that exist for improving special population preparedness. |
| Metz, W., E. Tanzman, and L. Zander, Concept of Operations for Protecting Special-Needs Populations in the Alabama CSEPP Footprint, Revision 3, ANL-05/46 (August 2005). |
2005 |
Formal Report |
This document is the Concept of Operations for the six-county Alabama CSEPP community that served as the basis for individual county preparedness plans for persons with special needs. |
| Metz, W.C., E. Tanzman, L.A. Nieves, and V. Holt, Preparing People with Special Needs for Emergencies: the Alabama Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program (CSEPP) Model, Journal of Emergency Management, vol. 3, no. 4 (July/August 2005). |
2005 |
Journal Article |
The article describes the evolution of the program and assessing the results of the overall program in achieving self-sufficiency. |
| Phillips, B.D., W. Metz, and L.A. Nieves, Disaster threat: Preparedness and Potential Response of the Lowest Income Quartile, Environmental Hazards, vol. 6 (2005). |
2005 |
Journal Article |
The article provides an assessment of the social and economic protective action differences between those in the lower quartile and the general population. |
| Metz, W.C., and E. Tanzman, Emergency Preparedness for Persons with Special Needs in Alabama: Current Research and Findings, presented to the National Organization on Disability Conference on Emergency Preparedness for People with Disabilities, Washington, D.C., September 28, 2004. |
2004 |
Conference Presentation |
The presentation keyed on the requirement of multiple data collection methods, the perishability of data and changing situations, the difficult challenges (more so for those with extreme needs), how community support is essential, how easy empathetic contact improves communication, and that adaptations are necessary. |
| Kuiper, J. and D. Miller, Special Population Planner: An Emergency Planning GIS, Illinois GIS Notes, vol. 3, no. 2 (Summer 2002). |
2002 |
Journal Article |
This article summarizes an early version of the Special Population Planner software application. |
| Metz, W.C., and E. Tanzman, Responding to the Needs of Vulnerable Special-Needs Households, presented to the Calhoun County Local Emergency Planning Committee, Anniston, AL, July 12, 2002. |
2002 |
Workshop Presentation |
This presentation explained the Alabama CSEPP Special-Needs Population Program to the Calhoun County, AL, Local Emergency Planning Committee. |
| Metz, W.C., P. Hewett, and J. Muzzarelli, Locating Vulnerable Special-Needs Households in a Community Hosting a Chemical Weapons Storage Site, presented to the 2002 National Disaster Medical System Conference, Atlanta, GA. April 15, 2002 |
2002 |
Conference Presentation |
The presentation provides a description of the household identification process and data following its second set of mailings. |
| Williams, C., W.C. Metz, D. Miller, and E. Tanzman, Alabama Special Population Planner, presented to the 2002 Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program National Conference, Lexington, KY, June 26-27, 2002. |
2002 |
Conference Presentation |
The presentation described the intricate data collection process in Alabama for persons with special needs and for special facilities to overcome confidentiality concerns, outreach efforts to manage expectations, and the use of the integrated map layers, interfaces and data to facilitate planning. |
| Kuiper, J., W. Metz, and D. Miller, Special Population Planner - A GIS-Based Emergency Planning System, in the Proceedings of the 2001 Advanced Simulation Technologies Conference, Seattle, WA, , 2001. |
2001 |
Conference Proceeding |
The paper describes how developing a GIS-based emergency planning system for a localized area is both uniquely valuable and challenging. |
| Kuiper, J., T. Allison, C. Cilek, D. Miller, and J. Stache, Development of a GIS-Based Emergency Planning System, in the Proceedings of the 20th Annual ESRI User Conference, sponsored by the Environmental Systems Research Institute, San Diego, CA, June 28, 2000. |
2000 |
Conference Predeeding |
The paper describes how the Alabama Planning Toolkit can be used for emergency response planning and actual response activities. |
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