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DOIONLINE Publish In |
International Journal of Management and Applied Science (IJMAS)-IJMAS |
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Issue |
Volume-4,Issue-4 ( Apr, 2018 ) | |||||||||
Paper Title |
Impact of Social Media in Emergency Management | |||||||||
Author Name |
Arun Kumar, Bo Chen, Thi Phuong Dung Ho | |||||||||
Affilition |
Senior Lecturer, School of Engineering, RMIT University, 124 La Trobe Street, Melbourne, Australia Student, School of Engineering, RMIT University, 124 La Trobe Street, Melbourne, Australia | |||||||||
Pages |
33-40 | |||||||||
Abstract |
Natural disasters could be related to natural phenomena such as weather, geological, biological or even factors outside the Earth and have become more and more frequent in recent years and brought millions of losses, destruction and damages. Emergency teams’ efficiency in responding to disasters is critical in saving lives, reducing suffering, and for damage control. Utilizing social media in different stages of natural disaster management, especially focus on analyzing the effect on logistics are discussed. Index terms - Natural disasters, Emergency logistics, Social media. | |||||||||
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