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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=HTMLBody align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>********************* CALL FOR PAPERS *********************<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=HTMLBody><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=HTMLBody align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>ARTICLE PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DUE DATE: </span><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:JA'>May</span></b><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> 1, 201</span></b><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:JA'>4</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:JA'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=HTMLBody align=center style='text-align:center'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>SPECIAL ISSUE ON<b><i> </i></b><i>Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Crisis, Disaster, and Catastrophe Management</i><b><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class=MsoTitle style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:JA'>The Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoTitle style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:JA'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><a href="http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/jhsem"><b>http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/jhsem</b></a><b> </b><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>GUEST EDITORS<o:p></o:p></p><p class=HTMLBody><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Prof. Christopher G. Reddick, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA    <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=HTMLBody><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Dr. </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:JA'>Akemi Takeoka Chatfield</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>, University</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:JA'> of Wollongong</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>, </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:JA'>Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=HTMLBody><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=HTMLBody><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>INTRODUCTION<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;text-autospace:none'>In recent decades, the frequency, scale, and impacts of natural and man-made crises, disasters and catastrophes have markedly increased. Extreme events, such as the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, 2005 Hurricane Katrina, 2010 Haiti Earthquake, 2011 East Japan Great Earthquake and Tsunami, and 2012 Hurricane Sandy, have overwhelmed the response capacity of government agencies and profoundly affected communities in large areas. We consider this to be a major concern for governments, nonprofit organizations (NPOs), citizens, and communities alike. However, intelligent information and communication technologies (ICTs) such as smartphones and social media platforms (e.g., Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and blogs) are providing increased capacities for networking, enabling citizens and communities to actively engage with government in disaster management through crowdsourcing of local disaster information and playing increasingly important roles in all phases of a comprehensive disaster management cycle: disaster preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation. At the same time, the growing social and technological interdependence and resultant complexity of ICTs have exposed citizens, communities, and governments to a new level of vulnerability to the impacts of all types of hazards; in the aftermath of a disaster, for example, sustained large-area power failures and impaired critical infrastructures with associated cascading effects can result in a breakdown of clear cross-jurisdictional communication, a lack of timely actionable information, and an information chaos or “black hole.” We consider governing, managing, collecting, processing, evaluating, sense making, sharing, and communicating information in dynamically changing disaster environments to be a relevant and timely research theme for e-government research.<span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=HTMLBody><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=HTMLBody><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>OBJECTIVE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=HTMLBody style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>This </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:JA'>Special Issue on <i>ICT and Crisis, Disaster, and Catastrophe Management</i></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> contributes to the critical discourse</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:JA'> among </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>both researchers and practitioners in the homeland security and emergency management fields</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:JA'> </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>about both the role of ICT as a central information infrastructure in disaster management and the public </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:JA'>administration and public </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>policy implications of ICT for building a resilient society.</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:JA'> Theoretical and empirical p</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>apers are invited that deal with any aspect of the analysis, design, development, deployment, implementation, integration, operation, use, or evaluation of ICT by governments, NPOs, and citizens for any phase of the comprehensive disaster management cycle. The specific </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:JA'>psychological, </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>organizational, political</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:JA'>,</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> and social challenges in the context of </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:JA'>crisis,</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> disaster, </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:JA'>and catastrophe </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>management are of particular interest. Authors may focus also on the tools, functionalities, interfaces and/or </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:JA'>scenario analyses of benefits and risks related to ICT use</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> in disaster management. Questions include the use of advanced ICT, including ubiquitous mobile systems, social media channels, and geographic information systems (</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:JA'>GIS)</span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> to cope with the aforementioned challenges. </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:JA'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=HTMLBody><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:JA'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=HTMLBody><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>RECOMMENDED TOPICS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Topics to be discussed in this special issue include (but are not limited to) the following:<span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><ul style='margin-top:0cm' type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Theoretical foundations of and research methods applicable to ICT and disaster management<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Conceptions and measurements of resilience in disaster management and ICT<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Theoretical and/or empirical studies on dimensions of resilient information infrastructures in extreme events <o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Disaster information governance and ICT<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Challenges in ICT and crisis/disaster/catastrophe operations and logistics management, including critical success and/or failure factors and case studies/lessons learned<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Early warning systems<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>GIS and global positioning systems (GPS) in disaster management<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Roles of ICT, including mobile systems and social media platforms, as information infrastructures in disaster management<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Agent-based system-dynamic modeling of disaster management environments with ICT capabilities and operations<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Social media, rumors, social network analysis, sentiment analysis, and citizen coproduction of time-critical public information services <o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Use of ICT in crowdsourcing for enhanced disaster situational awareness, citizen engagement, and public value co-creation<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Informational quality and cross-jurisdictional information sharing using ICT in crises/disasters/catastrophes<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>ICT effects on facilitation of cross-sector collaboration and interoperation to manage emergent disaster dynamics<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Integration and interoperation of information systems in crises/disasters/catastrophes<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Crisis/disaster-related education and training, including teaching cases using ICT<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Nuclear power plant incidents, environmental monitoring, and coordinated mass evacuation policies using ICT<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Human and organizational information behavior in crises/disasters and its implications for human-centered design<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>ICT and detection of sociotechnological and socioeconomic vulnerability<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'>Impacts of unauthorized surveillance disclosures on homeland security and/or bilateral trust and cross-border security cooperation arrangements<o:p></o:p></li></ul><p class=HTMLBody><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=HTMLBody><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=HTMLBody><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=HTMLBody><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=HTMLBody><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>SUBMISSION DATES AND DEADLINES<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=HTMLBody><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>  *   Article proposal abstract due (500 words): May 1, 2014.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=HTMLBody><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>  *   Proposal notification: May 15, 2014.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=HTMLBody><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>  *   Full article draft due: September 1, 2014.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=HTMLBody><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>  *   Peer review results: December 1, 2014.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=HTMLBody><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>  *   Final revised article due: February 1, 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=HTMLBody><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>  *   Notification of final acceptance: February 15, 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=HTMLBody><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=HTMLBody><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>  <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>SUBMISSION GUIDELINES<span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>All manuscripts must follow JHSEM formatting requirements and must be written in English. Formatting instructions and submission guidelines can be found at: <a href="http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/jhsem">http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/jhsem</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=HTMLBody><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>ABOUT<span style='color:#333333'> THE JOURNAL OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT</span></b><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph'>Created in 2004, the Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (JHSEM) is an online journal that publishes original, innovative, and timely articles describing and assessing research and practice in the fields of homeland security and emergency management. JHSEM publishes not only peer-reviewed articles but also opinion, news/communiqués, and book/media reviews. Its electronic format allows us to leverage communication technologies in order to accumulate and disseminate the latest knowledge on a broad range of related topics in a timely and inexpensive manner. However, JHSEM is also offered in print format for those who prefer the traditional media.<span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Editor-in-Chief<b>: </b>Renda-Tanali, Irmak, D.Sc.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Managing Editor: McGee, Sibel, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Published: Quarterly <span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Interested author(s) should email a 500-word paper proposal by <b>May 1, 2014</b> to the guest editors. All full papers should be submitted through the central journal website at <a href="http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/dgjhsem">http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/dgjhsem</a> and should include a cover letter with a clear request for consideration within the special issue.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=HTMLBody><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Prof. Christopher G. Reddick<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=HTMLBody><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>E-mail: </span><span lang=EN-US><a href="mailto:Chris.Reddick@utsa.edu"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>chris.reddick@utsa.edu</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=HTMLBody><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>University of Texas at San Antonio, USA     <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=HTMLBody><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=HTMLBody><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Dr. </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:JA'>Akemi Takeoka Chatfield<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=HTMLBody><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>E-mail: </span><span lang=EN-US><a href="mailto:akemi@uow.edu.au"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:JA'>akemi</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>@</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:JA'>uow.edu.au</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"T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