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University of Bedfordshire
Park Square
Luton
Bedfordshire
UK, LU1 3JU
Chapter Proposals Submission Deadline: 28/02/2009
Full Chapters Due: 30/06/2009
To be published by IGI Global: http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=583
Using advanced ICT to effectively and efficiently manage the complexity of foreseen and unforeseen disastrous situations and to detect potential threats is perhaps one of the most prominent challenges in any organizational setting. With an increased number of natural and man-made disasters, there has been an evolved interest in revisiting past and current disaster management and threat detection approaches. Reviewing these approaches as a means to advance practices and prompt future directions could alleviate or even prevent human, property and environmental loss via emergent collaborative distributed technologies and frameworks.
During the last several decades the number of losses caused by natural and man-made disasters has increased. Humans are not always capable of avoiding extreme natural phenomena, technological accidents or terrorist attacks. There is a need to prepare and plan in advance actions in response to these events in order to support sustainable livelihood by protecting lives, property and the environment. In turn, various disaster management bodies (FEMA, EMA, European Civil Protection, etc) involving authorities at a local, national and international level have been formed to mitigate, prepare for, respond to and recover from such disasters and to detect potential threats. There are also collaborative research institutes, scientific laboratories and other non-profit organizations studying the natural phenomena and, most importantly, the response processes with the intention of advancing the disaster management discipline, its practice and application as a whole. Recent concerns and threats, such as climate change, support for developing countries, diseases or terrorism, have contributed to the evolution of the way that disaster management and threat detection practices approach extreme situations. Hence, there is a need to revisit current approaches in order to advance the discipline and cope with these new and unforeseen threats.
On the other hand, ICT developments over the last four decades have facilitated organizations with numerous collaborative tools to support various levels of enquiries within the field of application. In particular, the use of advanced distributed technologies has evolved over the years in such a way to accommodate and advance collaborative endeavours between interested parties (including disaster management stakeholders) scattered across the world. Such utilization of distributed data and resources related to ICT developments – including but not limited to service oriented approaches, grid technologies, cloud computing, mashups, data mining, data visualization, geographical information systems, intelligent agents, artificial intelligence and neural networks – should be further aligned for the purpose of disaster management and threat detection.
The primary goal of the book is to demonstrate how strategies and state-of-the-art ICT have and/or could be applied to serve as the vehicle to advance disaster management and threat detection approaches, decisions and practices. The achievement of such a goal implies the contribution of various practitioners, scholars in the area and researchers from other disciplines who are willing to offer their expertise and skills in advancing the disaster management and threat detection discipline both as a theory and practice. The book also aims to provide conceptual and practical guidance to disaster management stakeholders including ICT and senior managers of relevant organizations. It will help assist in identifying and developing effective and efficient approaches, mechanisms, and systems using emerging technologies to support their effective operation. Specifically, this book aims to build a network of excellence in effectively and efficiently managing advanced strategies and next generation distributed ICT for disaster management stakeholders to advance their current practices and approaches.
The overall mission of the book is to introduce both technical and non-technical details of strategies and ICT demonstrating their application and their potential utilization within the disaster management and threat detection sector. It also prompts revisiting current approaches (through critical reviews) and further developing the area for best practices for coping with emerging and unforeseen threats. The book aims to collect the vast experience of many leaders demonstrating past and current methods, tools and practices employed for disaster management purposes. As such, the book aims to be a definitive state-of-the-art collection and to prompt future directions for disaster managers to identify applicable theories and practices in order to mitigate, prepare for, respond to and recover from various foreseen and/or unforeseen disasters.
The projected audience is broad, ranging from those currently working in or those who are are interested in joining interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary collaborative disaster management and threat detection related advancements. Specifically, audiences who are: (1) researchers in the areas of disaster management, threat detection, emerging technologies and collaborative and distributed ICT; (2) managers and practitioners in the local authorities, research institutes and scientific centres and the industry; (3) academics, instructors, researchers and students in colleges and universities.
Topics:
Chapters should be written in a manner readable for both specialists and non-specialists. Chapters could address issues related to ICT (including collaborative and distributed) use referring to past and current approaches in managing foreseeable and unforeseeable natural and man-made disasters. Approaches should be centred on describing and/or exemplifying methods, tools and strategies employed during the stages of mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery. A specific section will focus on proposing applicable future concepts, trends and strategies, which may help assist in managing disasters in a far more effective and efficient manner.
Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
Academics, researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before 28 February 2009, a 2-3 page manuscript proposal detailing the background, motivations and structure of the proposed chapter by clearly explaining the mission and concerns of their proposal. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by 31 March 2009 on the status of their proposals and sent chapter organizational guidelines. Full chapters are due on 30 June 2009 and should range from 7,000-8,000 words in length. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the “Information Science Reference” (formerly Idea Group Reference), “Medical Information Science Reference,” and “IGI Publishing” imprints. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2011.
| 28 February 2009: | Proposal Submission Deadline |
| 31 March 2009: | Notification of Acceptance |
| 30 June 2009: | Full Chapter Submission |
| 31 August 2009: | Review Result Returned |
| 30 September 2009: | Revised Chapter Submission |
| 15 October 2009: | Final Notification of Acceptance |
Inquiries and submissions can be forwarded electronically (Word document) or by mail to:
Dr Eleana Asimakopoulou
10 Sharples Green
Luton, LU3 4BB, United Kingdom
Tel.: +44 (0) 7810127662
E-Mail: eleana.asimakopoulou@googlemail.com
Blog: http://easimakopoulou.blogspot.com
or
Dr Nik Bessis
Department of Computing and Information Systems
University of Bedfordshire
Park Square, Luton, LU1 3JU, United Kingdom
Tel.: +44 (0) 1582 743476 * Fax: +44 (0) 1582 489212
E-Mail: nik.bessis@beds.ac.uk
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