Correction to: An Urban Crisis Management System for Critical Infrastructures: Participation Possibilities for Insurance Companies

Correction to: The Geneva Papers, 2017, 42, (633–656) https://doi.org/10.1057/s41288-017-0069-9

The authors wish to correct the numbering and formatting of the following passages in the printed article:

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Bush et al. and Leclaire and O’Reilly have designated the following essential functions of such a system to support decision-makers during the decision-making process:

• (1) the cross-sectoral, functional representation of CI, including existing interdependencies (dependencies between single sectors or industries),

• (2) the analysis of economic, safety-related and environmental consequences, as well as potential damage to human health, public security and national security from disaster or crises events, and

• (3) the implementation of technically correct, appropriate, extensional and adaptable models and methods.³⁶

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Four key challenges in the use of information systems or decision support systems in disaster and crisis management can be derived from these:

• The different data sets available in the event of a crisis are to be provided in a standardised data format to enable accurate and fast data access, analyses, evaluations and information dissemination.

• The information systems are designed to help decision-makers investigate complex and aggregated data, detect anomalies and extract analogies and correlations.

• The information systems should assist the responsible persons in risk detection and assessment during the crisis, as well as the selection of appropriate solution strategies.

• The information systems should provide different services to meet the requirements of the different emergency management phases and crisis events.³⁷