-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: [AISWorld] Call for Chapter Proposals: Disaster Management and
Information Technology
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2021 18:35:17 +0000
From: Jochen Scholl <jscholl(a)uw.edu>
To: aisworld <aisworld(a)lists.aisnet.org>
Springer Nature Series “Public Administration and Information
Technology” (PAIT)
Call for Chapter Proposals
Proposal Submission: October 31, 2021
Full Chapter Submission: January 31, 2022
Edited Book Title:
Disaster Management and Information Technology: Professional Response
and Recovery Management in the Age of Disasters
A book edited by Hans Jochen Scholl, University of Washington, USA, Eric
E. Holdeman, Eric Holdeman & Associates, USA, and F. Kees Boersma, Vrije
Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Introduction. According to EM-DAT, the International Disaster Database,
over the last seventy years, the annual number of disasters and
catastrophes has increased more than tenfold. In the first two decades
of the 21st century, this unprecedentedly high annual number of
disasters and catastrophes appears to have become the every-year new
normal. As a consequence, an ever-larger share of the world population
is now regularly facing direct impacts from reoccurring extreme events.
Munich Re, the global insurer of insurance companies, reported a
record-high annual amount of human and property-related damages of $210b
for the year 2020 alone. Not insured damages are estimated to be five to
ten times higher than the insured ones. In other words, the impact of
these disasters and catastrophes on people and property has become an
enormous burden for society at large as well as for affected communities
and individuals. Extreme events like natural disasters, pandemics, or
man-made disasters require coordinated and effective responses from
government agencies and non-government entities. At the core of response
and recovery efforts are sets of tested and proven practices and
doctrines for intra- and cross-jurisdictional coordination and
collaboration as formulated, for example, the United States National
Incident Management System (NIMS) as well as in the National Recovery
Framework (NRF). While these frameworks are technology-unspecific,
professional responders have nevertheless begun to heavily rely on
so-called Crisis Information Management Systems (CIMS), which play
indispensable roles in gaining and maintain Situational Awareness and a
Common Operating Picture, both of which are central to an effective
response and recovery.
Scope. Governmental agencies lead and carry the main load in responses
to and recovery from disasters and catastrophes. This edited volume
presents the public administration context of disaster response/recovery
efforts in major countries around the world. It showcases coordination
and collaboration mechanisms between government agencies, the
involvement of non-governmental entities, lessons learned as well as
lessons not learned, approaches to disaster resiliency in society,
community engagement in disaster/catastrophe responses and recovery,
and, particularly, the role of Disaster Information Management, in
general, and Crisis Information Management Systems (CIMS), in
particular, as backbones of response and recovery. The book will also
focus on potential vulnerabilities, which the CIMS themselves may
introduce to the equation.
Aim. This volume aims at deepening and broadening the understanding of
agile and effective management of disaster response and recovery based
on information technology. While the use of information technology in
disaster management can become an element of vulnerability itself, it
has become the central means for collecting, vetting, and distributing
information. It also serves as the backbone for coordination and
collaboration between response and recovery units as well as resource
management tool. The edited book aims at covering the whole range of
application and uses of CIMS in disaster response and recovery. It
serves as platform for showcasing recent academic discoveries as well as
a knowledge source for practitioners.
Unique Proposition. The edited book entertains a multitude of
perspectives on CIMS-based disaster response and recovery management. It
not only studies the efficacy of CIMS in establishing and maintaining
Situational Awareness and a Common Operating Picture as well as
facilitating emergency operations including Resource and Task
Management, but rather also investigates the prerequisites for
resiliency of response and recovery infrastructures including
information infrastructures, which provide the backbone of a resilient
management of disasters, as well as the CIMS-related potential
vulnerabilities and threats to disaster management.
Intended Audience. This book will be a convenient source of information
for academics and practitioners to understand the unique needs, special
requirements, essential capabilities, reported limitations, known
issues, and relevant policy implications for using modern information
and communication technologies (ICTs), in general, and CIMS, in
particular, in professional disaster response and recovery. Once
published the book will provide the most up-to-date information on
important developments regarding government-led and ICT-based disaster
information management around the world. The chapters of this edited
book will be written by international experts and practitioners on the
implementation, use, and study of disaster information management and
CIMS in different countries. More concretely, contributions from
academics and researchers on the subject are welcome to answer the
research questions posed in this book proposal. Also, consultants and
experts in Disaster Information Management and CIMS are invited to
contribute to the book with their experience in the implementation and
usage of CIMS into government. Public managers and politicians are
welcome to contribute with their point of view about their experiences
in management and in the organizational issues around public-sector
Disaster Information Management including the implementation and usage
of CIMS.
Recommended Topics and Themes (Included, But Not Limited To).
— History of Disaster Information Management and CIMS in disaster
response and recovery
— Disaster Information Management frameworks and infrastructures
— NIMS, NRF etc. and Disaster Information Management integration
— Overview and comparisons of existing CIMS
— Case studies on CIMS in disaster response and recovery
— Vertical and horizontal coordination and interoperability of CIMS
— Vulnerabilities of CIMS and Disaster Information Management failures
— Policy issues regarding deployment, usage, and maintenance of CIMS
— Geographic Information Systems in disaster response and recovery
— Support for (shared) situational awareness via CIMS and other ICTs
— Creation and maintenance of a common operating picture via CIMS etc.
— Public messaging based on CIMS and other ICTs
— Rumor control and suppression of disinformation during response and
recovery
— Artificial Intelligence-based vetting and disambiguation of social
media-based information
— Legislative and statutory foundations for CIMS in disaster response
and recovery
— Governance models for multi-jurisdictional integrated and
interoperable CIMS
— Big data and data-science functionality in CIMS and other ICTs used in
response/recovery
— Scalability of current CIMS and future scalability needs in disaster
response/recovery
— Private-public collaboration and the role of CIMS in disaster
response/recovery
— Practitioner accounts and experiences in recent response/recovery
situations
Submission Procedure. Researchers and practitioners are invited to
submit on or before October 31, 2021, a 2-page chapter proposal clearly
explaining the mission and concerns of the proposed chapter, and how it
fits within the edited book. Authors of accepted proposals will be
notified by November 15, 2021 about the status of their proposals and
sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by
January 31st, 2022. All submitted chapters will be subject to peer review.
Chapter Requirements. Chapters accepted must be copyedited by an English
copy-editor to make sure that an author's raw text, or copy, is correct
in terms of spelling and grammar and is easy to read so that readers can
grasp the presented ideas. In addition, chapters must follow APA style
for writing and reference citations.
This publication is anticipated to be released in late 2022 or early 2023.
Important Dates and Deadlines
October 31, 2021 Proposal submission deadline
November 15, 2021: Notification of proposal acceptance
January 31, 2022: Full chapter submission
March 15, 2022: Deadline for reviewer comments
April 15, 2022: Revised chapter submission along with response to
reviewer comments
May 15, 2022: Notification of chapter acceptance
May 31, 2022: Final chapter submission along with signed Copyright Agreement
June 15, 2022: Final Deadline
Inquiries and chapter proposal submissions can be sent electronically
(Word document) to:
Dr. Hans Jochen Scholl (email: jscholl(a)uw.edu<mailto:jscholl@uw.edu>)
_______________________________________________
AISWorld mailing list
AISWorld(a)lists.aisnet.org