Impact-Driven Emergency and Crisis Management

Emergency services worldwide are facing increasing pressure due to shortages in staff and funding alongside increasing demand. Ongoing geopolitical developments, together with the increase in natural and human-made disasters, make the efficient use of resources crucial for crisis management. Although research on emergency and disaster management has seen significant improvements and can address many of these challenges, a substantial gap between research and practice remains in many countries, and practice rarely benefits fully from these advances.

This track explicitly targets that gap. It seeks to identify and analyse existing barriers and challenges, and ideally to propose measures and strategies for overcoming them. It also aims to highlight practical solutions by examining the difference between what works in practice and what is proposed as state of the art in academia. We seek submissions focused on impact-driven research in emergency and crisis management, including success and failure stories and best practices for creating and measuring impact in practice.

The track takes a holistic view of crisis management. It addresses collaboration between practice and research, the communication of research and solutions to planning and decision problems, and the transfer of research into practice. We welcome submissions addressing the complete crisis-management cycle, as well as work showing how lessons from past crises can improve preparation for future events. In line with the overall conference theme, we especially invite submissions addressing remote communities and vulnerable groups.

Topics of Interest

Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Success and failure stories, as well as barriers, challenges, and open problems in implementing research solutions in practice.
• Best practices for conducting practically relevant research projects together with practitioners.
• Integrated perspectives on emergency and crisis management research, including different resources, stakeholders, and stages of the crisis-management lifecycle.
• Design of information systems and decision-support systems with a strong focus on practical use and implementation.
• Discussion of research aspects that are especially relevant to practice, including decision-making under uncertainty and multi-criteria decision-making.
• Approaches for measuring impact at different stages of an emergency and crisis management research project.
• The importance of data and data-quality issues, and their consequences for research projects and practical implementation.
• Best practices and comparisons of practical solutions with state-of-the-art research.

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