Decisions Management during Wildland Fires: Accidents Viewed as a Spatiotemporal Inadequacy

Authors

  • Karim Hardy Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, 32114, FL, USA

Keywords:

Accidental state, Systems, Chaos theory.

Abstract

Extreme situations as wildland fires are a source of stress and pressure. In such events, decision-makers and incident commanders need to address a specific problem: how to manage time and resources to make meaningful decisions? Current models of accidents that exist to explain and manage catastrophes and disasters are inadequate and insufficient to deal with resources and time pressure due to uncertainty within a complex organization. Current incident response structures are incompetent and impotent to handle effectively a dynamic evolution of space and time in order to bring a situation back to stability adequately.

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2016-08-04

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Hardy, K. (2016). Decisions Management during Wildland Fires: Accidents Viewed as a Spatiotemporal Inadequacy. American Scientific Research Journal for Engineering, Technology, and Sciences, 23(1), 63–77. Retrieved from https://asrjetsjournal.org/index.php/American_Scientific_Journal/article/view/1821

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