The increased occurrence and severity of worldwide disasters, exacerbated by the impact of
climate change, pose significant challenges to emergency management, calling for novel …

Measuring what citizens perceive and value about landscapes is important for landscape
monitoring. Capturing temporal, spatial and cultural variation requires collection of data at …

The sharp increase in the use of smartphones and rapid advances in mobile communication
offer new ways to warn the public about developing natural or technological hazards. So far …

With the confluence of rapidly continuing economic development and increasing
greenhouse gas emissions, the frequency and severity of natural disasters caused by global …

In recent years, the sharp increase in the use of social media by the public during major
natural disasters has attracted the attention of various public agencies and safety …

OpticalGamification (OG) is an information and communication technology (ICT)-based
gamification-application that applies the elements of game design in a serious context of …

In 2017, weather-related disasters killed nearly 10,000 people and affected 100 million
people, causing damage of over $300 bn (CRED, 2018). Whereas the number killed has …

It is often difficult to promptly perceive the extent of the consequences of a natural disaster
when roads are cut, mobile phone is saturated, and the fragmentary information coming from …

The use of game design elements in non-game contexts, defined as gamification, is being
used to increase user engagement in non-game environments, such as workplaces …

After a strong earthquake, the rapid identification of the extent of the affected area is the most
crucial task of civil protection authorities. The information provided by those directly affected …