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Emergency Telecommunications and Mitigation-Oriented Policymaking Print E-mail
Written by Gordon Gow   
Monday, 17 January 2005
Article Index
Emergency Telecommunications and Mitigation-Oriented Policymaking
The Public Sector and Emergency Telecommunications
The Private Sector and Emergency Telecommunications
The Management of Critical Infrastructure
References
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Emergency Preparedness Canada. (1995). Departmental Planning Responsibilities for Emergency Preparedness. Ottawa: Government of Canada.

European Telecommunications Standards Institute. (2003). EMTEL--Emergency Telecommunications. Retrieved May, 2004. Available http://www.emtel.etsi.org/overview.htm

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Hoffman, K.W. (1990). Report on the Survivability of the Canadian Telecommunications Infrastructure. Ottawa: Industry Canada.
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National Communications System. (2004, April). National Communications System (homepage). Department of Homeland Security. Retrieved May, 2004. Available http://www.ncs.gov/index.html

Samarajiva, Rohan. (2001, Nov. 16). Disaster Preparedness and Recovery: A Priority fo Telecom Regulatory Agencies in Liberalized Environments. Paper presented at the ITU Telecom Africa 2001 Policy & Development Summit, Johannesburg, South Africa. Retrieved, from http://www.itu.int/TELECOM/aft2001/cfp/auth/4858/pap_4858.pdf

Schiff, A.J. and Tang, A. (1995). Policy and General Technical Issues Related to Mitigating Seismic Effects on Electric Power and Communication Systems. In Critical issues and state-of-the-art in lifeline earthquak engineering: proceedings of the session sponsored by the Technical Council on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering (pp. 1-29).

Srivastava, Leena and Samarajiva, Rohan. (2001, June 27-29, 2001). Regulatory design for disaster preparedness and recovery by infrastructure providers: South Asian experience. Paper presented at the Fifth International Conference on Technology, Policy and Innovation, The Hague, Netherlands. Retrieved, from http://www.delft2001.tudelft.nl/

Thomas, Brownlee. (1994). Emergency communications preparedness in Canada: a study of the command-and-control model and the emergence of alternative approaches. Ottawa: National Library of Canada.

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Wrobel, Leo A. (1993). Writing Disaster Recovery Plans for Telecommunications Networks and LANs. Boston: Artech House.
Wrobel, Leo A. (1997). The Definitive Guide to Business Resumption Planning. Boston: Artech House.


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