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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@uw.edu)
