Call for Papers on Spatial Risk Analysis
Risk and decision analysts, as well as policy makers, are often faced with problems having spatial characteristics. Spatial variability is increasingly recognized as a key component in health, safety, and environmental exposure and risk assessment (e.g. Keller et al. 2014, Zagmutt et al., 2015, Zhou et al., 2014). In addition, there is a broad literature on spatial decision support in the environmental domain. A subset of this growing research field deals with risk (Malczewski, 2006), but, arguably, without a proper risk -analytic framework. Presentation of spatial and geographical uncertainty is also of key importance, with many open challenges (MacEachren et al. 2005). The time is thus ripe to explore how to conceptualize spatial risk analysis frameworks to better support assessment of both vulnerabilities and multidimensional impacts. We therefore invite papers for a special issue of the journal Risk Analysis to provide impetus in this direction. Submissions should emphasize current cutting-edge research and serve as point of reference for risk analysis researchers, as well as practitioners in fields such as Health, Environmental Protection, Emergency Management, and Logistics.
Key areas of focus for the Special Issue include:
Key areas of focus for the Special Issue include:
- Models for understanding and improving decisions involving spatially distributed risks (probability distributions of multidimensional outcome distributions over a certain area and over time). Utility (or Loss) functions for spatial outcomes.
- Effective communication and presentation of spatial and geographical uncertainties about exposures, vulnerabilities, risks, and impacts, including behavioral aspects, cartographic conventions and the use of interactive displays.
- Expert judgement probability elicitation and validation for spatial risk analysis.
- Aggregation of multidimensional risk impacts for a certain geography.
- Appraisal of spatial heterogeneity and heterogeneous vulnerability assessment frameworks for spatial risk analysis.
- Spatio-temporal logics for interrogating GIS to support risk analyses and underpin decision support systems.
Paper Submission:
Submitted articles must not have been previously published or currently submitted for journal publication elsewhere. As an author, you are responsible for understanding and adhering to our submission guidelines. You can access them at: http://sra.org/sra-journal.
Please indicate in your cover letter that the paper is intended for the Spatial Risk Analysis special series.
Each paper will go through a rigorous review process.
Submitted articles must not have been previously published or currently submitted for journal publication elsewhere. As an author, you are responsible for understanding and adhering to our submission guidelines. You can access them at: http://sra.org/sra-journal.
Please indicate in your cover letter that the paper is intended for the Spatial Risk Analysis special series.
Each paper will go through a rigorous review process.
Important Dates:
Submission Deadline: September 30, 2016
First-Round Reviews (target): December 1, 2016
Special Issue Published: Fall 2017
more inforation can be found here:
http://www.sra.org/sites/default/files/pdf/SpecialissueproposalforRiskAnalysis_Jun20.pdf
