As our society becomes more complicated, so do the unfortunate events which occur. The importance of developing systems and applications for these crises is critical. The response and management of a crisis is paramount and thus requires innovative research to better understand how to improve our systems. Crisis Response and Management and Emerging Information Systems: Critical Applications provides a comprehensive, cross disciplinary look at the advancing and understanding of organizational, technical, human, and cognitive issues associated with the use of information systems in responding and managing crises of all kinds. This book presents the issues that drive the technologies, processes, methodologies, techniques, and practices used to implement information systems in a variety of ways and in the multi-faceted modern environment that we find ourselves in today. The advancement of these critical applications will benefit from this publication as it provides valuable information for future crisis situations.