The importance of timely, accurate and effective use of available information is essential to
the proper management of emergency situations. In recent years, emerging technologies …

Locating, routing and deploying essential goods and equipment are proactive disaster
management strategies which received attention during recent decades. Many artificial …

This paper uses a bibliometric approach to examine the growth of and changes in the
Spatial Decision Support Systems (SDSS) field over the past three decades. Bibliographic …

Social media is playing a growing role in disaster management and response. Expectations
are that such media can be critical for sending alerts, identifying critical needs, and focusing …

With the outbreak of COVID-19, online sharing of rumors about the disease is of growing
concern worldwide. Drawing on the stimulus–organism–response (S–OR) framework, this …

Twitter is increasingly of interest as a social media that can be used to help mitigate
disasters. In this paper, we describe the strength and limitations of Twitter in this context, and …

The main purpose of this article is to identify the local determinants for self-evacuation
during a flooding event and the impact that the changes related to its individual stages and …

A crisis requires the affected population, governments or non-profit organizations, as well as
crisis experts, to make urgent and sometimes life-critical decisions. With the urgency and …

This paper presents the use of tsunami evacuation drills within a coastal community in the
Cascadia Subduction Zone (CSZ) to better understand evacuation behaviors and thus to …

In emergencies, Twitter is an important platform to get situational awareness simultaneously.
Therefore, information about Twitter users' location is a fundamental aspect to understand …