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Henrik Tehler

Henrik Tehler

Professor

Henrik Tehler

An Operational Definition of Emergency Response Capabilities

Författare

  • Henrik Hassel
  • Marcus Abrahamsson
  • Henrik Tehler

Summary, in English

Well developed emergency response capabilities are crucial in order to keep the risk in a community at low levels. Analysing these capabilities before an emergency occurs is important since it can identify weaknesses and possibilities for improvements. To start off from an operational definition is a possible point of departure in such an analysis. In this paper, therefore, we develop an operational definition of emergency response capabilities, which builds on systems theory and an operational definition of risk. The definition includes three essential elements; the task to which the capability is related, measures of how well that task can be performed and a description of the context affecting the performance of that particular task. The definition makes clear that the context might have large effects on how well a task can be performed and that there are uncertainties both regarding the context and how well a task can be performed given a context. Furthermore, we argue that it should be possible to make judgements about any statements that are made in the analysis regarding their validity and therefore the tasks and performance measures must be defined accordingly. The conclusion is that the operational definition provides an analytic structure which can help actors to gain knowledge about their emergency response capabilities and limits thereof.

Avdelning/ar

  • Avdelningen för Brandteknik
  • Lund University Centre for Risk Assessment and Management (LUCRAM)
  • Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

Publiceringsår

2007

Språk

Engelska

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Proceedings of Disaster Recovery and Relief: Current & Future Approaches (TIEMS 2007)

Dokumenttyp

Konferensbidrag

Ämne

  • Building Technologies
  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
  • Other Civil Engineering

Nyckelord

  • Emergency response capabilities
  • analytic framework
  • operational definition

Conference name

14th TIEMS Annual Conference, 2007

Conference date

2007-06-05 - 2007-06-08

Conference place

Trogir, Croatia

Aktiv

Published

Projekt

  • FRIVA

Forskningsgrupp

  • LUCRAM (Lund University Center for Risk Analysis and Management