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NATO Science for Peace and Security Series E: Human and Societal Dynamics, v. 62 ; v.v. 62 |
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NATO Science for Peace and Security Series E: Human and Societal Dynamics, v. 62
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Title page -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 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 -- 2. Information-Sharing for Counteracting Biological and Other Global Threats -- Information Sharing in Knowledge Society -- Learning from Catastrophe: Lessons for Pandemic Planning -- Governance in Counteracting Natural and Man-Made Disasters: the LEFIS Network as Example -- Legal and Political Implications of a Pandemic and Biological Threats. Ethical Dilemmas in Disasters -- The Economic and Systemic Impacts of a Pandemic -- 3. Improving Preparedness through Education and Awareness -- Health "Security" Systems -- Tools Against Terrorist Threats: Considerations on How to be Prepared -- The Viewpoint of ED Personnel about Avian Flu: Do Emergency Department Healthcare Professionals Feel Ready to Face Epidemics/Pandemics? -- Bioterrorism and Pandemics: A New World Order of Civil Defence -- 4. Multidisciplinary Approaches to Address Biological and Nonconventional Threats -- Nanosystems and CBRN Threats: A Resource Worth Exploiting, a Potential Worth Controlling -- Modern Biooptical Instruments for the Express Control of Total Toxicity, Individual Chemicals, Viral and Bacterial Infections to Prevent Bio- and Medical Threats -- Behavior of Some Pathogenic and Genetically Modified Bacteria in Groundwater Samples -- Geological Environment as a Factor of Natural and Man-Made Disasters -- Mass Destruction Weapons and their Contribution to Pandemic Effects -- Significance of Noninvasive Cardiology Care in Present-Day Peculiarities of Hazardous Regions -- 5. Modeling Information-Sharing and Communication -- The Supercourse: Former Soviet Union Countries Practice |
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Globalization of Public Health Communication: Preparing Local Leaders using the Supercourse -- Model of the Adaptive Hierarchical Information Security System -- 6. Case Studies and Regional Threats -- Cooperation between Civilian and Military Organizations during an Emergency: A Case Study Evaluation of the 2008 Reentry of an Uncontrolled U.S. Government Satellite Contaminated with Hydrazine -- Counterterrorism: The First Italian Drill -- Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever in Turkey (2002-2008) -- The Anopheles Mosquitoes: Their Role in Malaria Transmission in Georgia -- The Problem of Preventing Natural Foci Infections during the Development of New Territories -- Pseudotuberculosis - Epidemiology, Clinic and Prevention Measures -- Subject Index -- Author Index |
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A collection of papers presented at the NATO ASI conference Transdisciplinary Information Sharing for Decision-Making against Biological Threats. It highlights strategic enablers such as cross-disciplinary information sharing, international outreach and partner activities, public diplomacy and strategic communication |
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2020. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries |
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Print version: Trufanov, A. Pandemics and Bioterrorism : Transdisciplinary Information Sharing for Decision-making Against Biological Threats
Amsterdam : IOS Press,c2010 9781607500865
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Bioterrorism.;Epidemics
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Electronic books
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Rossodivita, A
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Guidotti, M
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