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<p class="HTMLBody" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">********************* CALL FOR PAPERS *********************<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="HTMLBody"><span 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 style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">ARTICLE PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DUE DATE:
</span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:JA">May</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> 1, 201</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:JA">4</span></b><span 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 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"><span lang="EN-AU">SPECIAL ISSUE ON<b><i>
</i></b><i>Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Crisis, Disaster, and Catastrophe Management</i></span><b><i><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoTitle" style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span 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:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span 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"><span lang="EN-AU"><a href="http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/jhsem"><b>http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/jhsem</b></a><b>
</b></span><b><span lang="EN-AU" 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"><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">GUEST EDITORS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="HTMLBody"><span 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 style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Dr.
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:JA">Akemi Takeoka Chatfield</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">, University</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:JA">
of Wollongong</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">Australia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="HTMLBody"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="HTMLBody"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">INTRODUCTION<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-AU">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><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="HTMLBody"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="HTMLBody"><span 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 style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">This
</span><span 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 style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> contributes to the critical discourse</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:JA">
among </span><span 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 style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:JA">
</span><span 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 style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:JA">administration and public
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">policy implications of ICT for building a resilient society.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:JA"> Theoretical and empirical
p</span><span 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 style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:JA">psychological,
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">organizational, political</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:JA">,</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
and social challenges in the context of </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:JA">crisis,</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> disaster,
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:JA">and catastrophe
</span><span 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 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 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 style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:JA">GIS)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
to cope with the aforementioned challenges. </span><span 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 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 style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">RECOMMENDED TOPICS<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Topics to be discussed in this special issue include (but are not limited to) the following:</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
<span lang="EN-AU">Theoretical foundations of and research methods applicable to ICT and disaster management<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
<span lang="EN-AU">Conceptions and measurements of resilience in disaster management and ICT<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
<span lang="EN-AU">Theoretical and/or empirical studies on dimensions of resilient information infrastructures in extreme events
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
<span lang="EN-AU">Disaster information governance and ICT<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
<span lang="EN-AU">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></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
<span lang="EN-AU">Early warning systems<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
<span lang="EN-AU">GIS and global positioning systems (GPS) in disaster management<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
<span lang="EN-AU">Roles of ICT, including mobile systems and social media platforms, as information infrastructures in disaster management<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
<span lang="EN-AU">Agent-based system-dynamic modeling of disaster management environments with ICT capabilities and operations<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
<span lang="EN-AU">Social media, rumors, social network analysis, sentiment analysis, and citizen coproduction of time-critical public information services
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
<span lang="EN-AU">Use of ICT in crowdsourcing for enhanced disaster situational awareness, citizen engagement, and public value co-creation<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
<span lang="EN-AU">Informational quality and cross-jurisdictional information sharing using ICT in crises/disasters/catastrophes<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
<span lang="EN-AU">ICT effects on facilitation of cross-sector collaboration and interoperation to manage emergent disaster dynamics<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
<span lang="EN-AU">Integration and interoperation of information systems in crises/disasters/catastrophes<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
<span lang="EN-AU">Crisis/disaster-related education and training, including teaching cases using ICT<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
<span lang="EN-AU">Nuclear power plant incidents, environmental monitoring, and coordinated mass evacuation policies using ICT<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
<span lang="EN-AU">Human and organizational information behavior in crises/disasters and its implications for human-centered design<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
<span lang="EN-AU">ICT and detection of sociotechnological and socioeconomic vulnerability<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">
<span lang="EN-AU">Impacts of unauthorized surveillance disclosures on homeland security and/or bilateral trust and cross-border security cooperation arrangements<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="HTMLBody"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="HTMLBody"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="HTMLBody"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="HTMLBody"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="HTMLBody"><span 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 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 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 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 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 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 style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> * Notification of final acceptance: February 15, 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">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>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-AU">ABOUT<span style="color:#333333"> THE JOURNAL OF HOMELAND SECURITY AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT</span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-AU" 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"><span lang="EN-AU">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><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Editor-in-Chief<b>: </b>Renda-Tanali, Irmak, D.Sc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Managing Editor: McGee, Sibel, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Published: Quarterly </span><span lang="EN-AU" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">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></span></p>
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<p class="HTMLBody"><span 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 style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">E-mail:
</span><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 style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
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<p class="HTMLBody"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
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<p class="HTMLBody"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Dr.
</span><span 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 style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">E-mail:
</span><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 style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">
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<p class="HTMLBody"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">University</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:JA"> of Wollongong</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">,
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