Research Catalog

Title

Pandemics and bioterrorism : transdisciplinary information sharing for decision-making against biological threats / edited by Andrey Trufanov, Alessandra Rossodivita and Matteo Guidotti.

Author

NATO Advanced Study Institute on Preparing Regional Leaders with Knowledge, Training and Instruments for Information Sharing & Decision-making Against Biological Threats and Pandemics (2008 : Milan, Italy)

Publication

Amsterdam ; Washington, DC : IOS Press, c2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Guidotti, Matteo, 1975-
• Rossodivita, Alessandra.
• Trufanov, Andrey.

Description

xvii, 219 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Series Statement

NATO science for peace and security series. E, Human and societal dynamics ; vol. 62

Uniform Title

NATO science for peace and security series. E, Human and societal dynamics ; v. 62.

Subjects

• Information Dissemination > methods
• Decision Making
• Bioterrorism > prevention & control
• Epidemics > Congresses
• Congress
• Emergency management > Congresses
• Pandemics > prevention & control
• Bioterrorism > Prevention > Congresses
• Disaster Planning > organization & administration

Genre/Form

Congress.

Note

• "Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Preparing Regional Leaders with Knowledge, Training and Instruments for Information Sharing & Decision-making Against Biological Threats and Pandemics, Milan, Italy, 30 November -- 8 December 2008."--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

The need of preparing regional leaders with the knowledge, training and instruments for information sharing and decision-making against biological threats and pandemics. Preparing for the next pandemic / Alessandra Rossodivita and Andrey Trufanov -- Information sharing in knowledge society / Fernando Galindo ... [et al.] -- Learning from catastrophe : lessons for pandemic planning / Elin A. Gursky and Sweta R. Batni -- Governance in counteracting natural and man-made disasters : the LEFIS network as example / Fernando Galindo -- Legal and political implications of a pandemic and biological threats. Ethical dilemmas in disasters / Antonio Caruso and Alessandra Rossodivita -- The economic and systemic impacts of a pandemic / William I. Hancock -- Health "security" systems / Raymond E. Swienton, Italo Subbarao and Elin A. Gursky -- Tools against terrorist threats : considerations on how to be prepared / Massimo Ranghieri, Matteo Guidotti and Alessandra Rossodivita -- The viewpoint of ED personnel about avian flu : do emergency department healthcare professionals feel ready to face epidemics/pandemics? / Efstratios Photiou -- Bioterrorism and pandemics : a new world order of civil defence / David Alexander -- Nanosystems and CBRN threats : a resource worth exploiting, a potential worth controlling / Matteo Guidotti, Massimo Ranghieri and Alessandra Rossodivita -- Modern biooptical instruments for the express control of total toxicity, individual chemicals, viral and bacterial infections to prevent bio- and medical threats / Nickolaj F. Starodub -- Behavior of some pathogenic and genetically modified bacteria in groundwater samples / Zdenek Filip and Katerina Demnerova -- Geological environment as a factor of natural and man-made disasters / Evgeniy E. Kononov -- Mass destruction weapons and their contribution to pandemic effects / Alberto Breccia Fratadocchi -- Significance of noninvasive cardiology care in present-day peculiarities of hazardous regions / M.G. Shurygin -- The SuperCourse : former Soviet Union countries practice / Eugene Shubnikov ... [et al.] -- Globalization of public health communication : preparing local leaders using the SuperCourse / Faina Linkov, Eugene Shubnikov and Ronald LaPorte -- Model of adaptive hierarchical information security system / A.L. Antipov and A.I. Trufanov -- Cooperation between civilian and military organizations during an emergency : a cast study evaluation of the 2008 reentry of an uncontrolled U.S. government satellite contaminated with hydrazine / Chuck Tomljanovich ... [et al.] -- Counterterrorism : the first Italian drill / Alessandra Rossodivita, Marzia Spessot and Gianna Zoppei -- Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever in Turkey (2002-2008) / Etem Akbas -- The Anopheles mosquitoes : their role in malaria transmission in Georgia / George Babuadze, merab Iosava and Lela Bakanidze -- The problem of preventing natural foci infections during the development of new territories / Irina A. Shurygina -- Pseudotuberculosis : epidemiology, clinic and prevention measures / Irina A. Shurygina.

ISBN

• 9781607500865
• 1607500868

LCCN

2009941880

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries