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Climate disaster and catastrophic incidents create emergency problems that need urgent responses by authorities. To protect human communities and human systems from the impact of disasters, rescue teams and decision makers both from government and nongovernment agencies need to work closely in a systematic manner. Information collected from different sensors and sources must be shared at different decision making levels. However, Government policy and decision makers at various levels lack appropriate technology needed to assist for decision support that could help them work within their context effectively. Research addressing such a context specific decision support issue for managing and fostering the possible impacts on affecting human communities and taking required actions has to date been limited. An IT based solution integrating new technological provisions can have potential benefit for such problem situations in providing good coordination in decision making for authorities.

The purpose of the chapter is to introduce a conceptual approach of emerging decision support systems (DSS) development in enhancing contextual support in decision making. We analyse the requirements of outlining a technological solution model for addressing disaster management problem situations in which decision makers at different levels can have the information support to respond effectively.

The chapter will be organised in the following way. The next section will provide an overview of the issues in such a DSS solution design for disaster emergency decision making. The following section will describe different DSS technologies and their purposes. The fourth section will include different disaster management aspects considered by previous studies. The section following will describe the proposed DSS model that may have application for decision makers. Section six will present a discussion on the delimitations of the proposed approach in the chapter and finally the outline further research directions will be discussed.
