ABSTRACT
Crisis response situations require collaboration across many di¡erent organizations with di¡erent backgrounds, training, procedures, and goals. Indeed, the overwhelming nature of such events calls for a diversi¥ed response that addresses the multitude of cascading e¡ects. Compounding the challenges associated with collaboration during crisis situations is the distributed nature of the supporting organizations (in most cases, a single
Introduction ....................................................................................................293 Design of the VCE ......................................................................................... 294 ˜e VCE Toolset .............................................................................................295
