Special Issue: GIS for Collaborative Disaster Risk Reduction Management

  Special Issue Editors

 

Dr. Shakeel Mahmood
Department of Geography,
Government College University,
Lahore, Pakistan
Email: shakeelmahmoodkhan@gmail.com
          shakeelmahmoodkhan@hotmail.com
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Dr. Sofiane Bensefia
Department of Agricultural Science,
University Mohamed El Bachir El Ibrahimi,
Bordj Bou Arreridj, Algeria.
Email: sofiane.bensefia@univ-bba.dz
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Dr. Helen Muhammad Abdul Hussein Al-Badiri
College of Education for Girls,
University of Kufa,
Najaf, Iraq.
Email: helenm.abdulhussein@uokfa.edu.iq

Dr. Muhammad Irfan Ahamad
College of Geography and Environmental Science,
Henan University,
Kaifeng 475004, China
Email: mirfan230@hotmail.com
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Special Issue Information

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are vital tools for disaster management, providing essential analytical and decision-support capabilities. For homeland security professionals, understanding GIS and its role in disaster management, policy, and practice is highly beneficial. This resource guides readers through the basics of GIS in disaster management, requiring no prior knowledge.
During crises, GIS enables emergency response teams to rapidly gather and analyze real-time data from sources like satellite imagery, weather reports, social media, and sensor networks. It identifies risks early in the assessment process and can detect new hazards by overlaying data sets. GIS databases store spatial and non-spatial data related to hazards and vulnerabilities, helping organizations understand geographic patterns and relationships.
GIS is crucial in providing precise locational data, enhancing situational awareness, and connecting individuals during emergencies. It integrates spatial data analysis, modeling, and visualization, aiding in the identification of operational zones and the development of robust emergency plans.
Beyond disaster management, GIS technology monitors water pollution, tracks water movement, and addresses water-related issues. It also supports industries in disease surveillance and other contexts by revealing the spatial significance of data. Globally, GIS informs both operational and strategic decisions, playing a key role in disaster risk management, which aims to prevent, reduce, and manage disaster risks to enhance resilience and reduce losses.

Topics of interest for the special issue include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Disaster mitigation and physical disaster management through government information sharing (GIS).
• Reducing catastrophe risk and vulnerability via the use of partial participatory GIS.
• Origins, boundaries, and architecture of interactive geographic information systems.
• Integrating collaborative and interactive risk mapping to improve resilience to disasters.
• Conveying local knowledge through participative geographic information systems.
• An analysis of GIS applications for managing natural disasters in underdeveloped nations.
• Implications of volunteer geographic data for GI Science and emergency response.
• The difficulties of GPS and geographic information systems for hazard risk management.
• An integrative disaster mitigation system using spatial information services.
• Geographical data for handling and rating land-related concerns in catastrophe risk reduction.
• Enhancing catastrophe risk management through geographic information management.
• A collaborative geographic information system to facilitate the allocation of assets for engineering emergency response activities.

Dr. Shakeel Mahmood
Dr. Sofiane Bensefia
Dr. Helen Muhammad Abdul Hussein Al-Badiri
Dr. Muhammad Irfan Ahamad

 

Deadline for manuscript submissions: March 01, 2025
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