Philip C. Butler
Emergency management decision-making in a changing world: three key challenges.
Butler, Philip C.; Flin, Rhona; Bearman, Chris; Hayes, Peter; Penney, Greg; McLennan, Jim
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Abstract
Managing emergencies is taxing for individuals due to the stress of making decisions in dangerous, high-stakes and time-constrained environments. These complex, dynamic environments also make it difficult to coordinate as other responders perform different roles that may have conflicting goals. This study explored some of the challenges faced by emergency management decision-makers through a literature review of 70 papers identified from SCOPUS and EBSCO database searches. Three major challenges for emergency management were identified of stress and fatigue interoperability and ethical decision-making. Each of these challenges is examined to explore their nature and how they are likely to evolve in the future. This paper provides helpful advice on how to mitigate these challenges. We argue that to better meet these challenges, emergency services organisations need to develop and maintain appropriate doctrine and training, develop a supportive organisational culture and effectively learn the lessons of previous critical incidents.
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BUTLER, P.C., FLIN, R., BEARMAN, C., HAYES, P., PENNEY, G. and MCLENNAN, J. [2024]. Emergency management decision-making in a changing world: three key challenges. Australian journal of emergency management [online], (accepted).
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Aug 4, 2024 |
Deposit Date | Aug 6, 2024 |
Publicly Available Date | Aug 26, 2024 |
Journal | Australian journal of emergency management |
Print ISSN | 1324-1540 |
Electronic ISSN | 2204-2288 |
Publisher | Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Keywords | Decision-making; Stress; Fatigue; Interoperability; Ethical |
Public URL | https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/2428204 |
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© 2024 by the authors. License Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience, Melbourne, Australia. This is an open access Article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0.
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