{"title":"Global navigation satellite systems as critical infrastructure: A cross-sectoral impact assessment of service interruptions in Europe","authors":"Iztok Prezelj, Jelena Juvan","doi":"10.1016/j.pdisas.2025.100504","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pdisas.2025.100504","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Our societies are ever more dependent on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) like Galileo, GPS, Glonass or BeiDou. Navigation technology has penetrated so deeply into all sectors of society that one may argue that it constitutes critical infrastructure. The paper identifies and analyses the cross-sectoral dimensions of GNSS criticality, such as the high geostrategic and military importance, the dual-use character, the broad cross-sectoral application, the ubiquitous timing service of atomic clocks and the increasing sectoral requirements for availability and precision. Based on a synthetic literature review and an expert workshop, the paper also identifies numerous cross-sectoral spillover effects that could flow from a potential disruption of GNSS to other GNSS-dependent sectors including transport, telecommunications and the Internet, electric power generation and distribution, financial services and banking, agriculture, fisheries, emergency and security services, armed forces and defence, science, environmental and weather monitoring, construction, even space operations and various other applications.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":52341,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Disaster Science","volume":"29 ","pages":"Article 100504"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145790936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Military involvement in disaster management: Bibliometric insights into central–peripheral dynamics and historical crises","authors":"Hasan Ogredik","doi":"10.1016/j.pdisas.2025.100511","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pdisas.2025.100511","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>While the disaster management literature includes substantial research on the utilisation of military resources, existing studies are mostly fragmented, event-specific, or confined to thematic niches. This article, therefore, aims to (i) provide a comprehensive bibliometric mapping of scholarly work on military involvement in disaster management, and (ii) identify underexplored domains and trajectories that warrant further academic attention. A bibliometric analysis was conducted on publications indexed in the Web of Science (1991–2025). Using VOSviewer, co-authorship, citation, and keyword networks were mapped. In addition, an AI-assisted natural language processing (NLP) clustering method was applied to categorise publications into thematic domains. Manual validation was undertaken to ensure reliability. The analysis reveals that disaster management research is dominated by a few Western countries, with limited collaboration and modest military input, shifting focus from health to securitised frameworks, while gaps remain in AI, disaster diplomacy, socio-cultural aspects, and the religion–disaster management nexus. By synthesising the literature bibliometrically, this study clarifies the field's evolution and situates it within ethical, historical, and political debates, offering a conceptual reference for academics and practical, context-sensitive insights on the interactions of central and peripheral dynamics in the use of military capabilities during disaster settings.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":52341,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Disaster Science","volume":"29 ","pages":"Article 100511"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145926171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Grandmothers of invention: A commentary on fifty years of hazards and disasters research and practice in the United States","authors":"Susan L. Cutter , Kathleen Tierney","doi":"10.1016/j.pdisas.2026.100525","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pdisas.2026.100525","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This commentary highlights the role of “grandmothers of invention”: women in the United States who were the first to enter the field of hazards and disasters as core researchers and who played key roles in advancing the science and practice of hazards/disasters research since 1975. We examine the evolution and transformation of the field from the perspective of the women who were initially entering a male-dominated field. The innovations in theory, concepts, tools, topics, and mentoring the next generation of scholars and practitioners are highlighted. Notably, emphasis on these women's singular and collective influence on practice and policy highlights the significance of introducing sociodemographic diversity and fresh intellectual perspectives in ways that transformed the field. Our approach is qualitative and narrative. Our intent is to introduce readers of the journal, especially those new to the field, to the contributions of leading US women researchers, both with respect to the topics they brought to light and with respect to their contributions to practice.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":52341,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Disaster Science","volume":"29 ","pages":"Article 100525"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146077853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Prince Dacosta Aboagye , Anh Cao , Megumi Watanabe , Irene Petraroli , Shinichiro Nakamura
{"title":"A decade after Sendai: Assessing global actor dynamics and roles in participatory flood early warning systems","authors":"Prince Dacosta Aboagye , Anh Cao , Megumi Watanabe , Irene Petraroli , Shinichiro Nakamura","doi":"10.1016/j.pdisas.2026.100529","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pdisas.2026.100529","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The operation of Flood Early Warning Systems (FEWS) is widely acknowledged to value the participation of diverse actors. Yet, little is known about the involvement of actors and the categories of roles they undertake in FEWS operations. A decade after the adoption of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, this study comprehensively reviews the evidence on participatory FEWS operations with the aim of (1) analyzing the global actor dynamics across various contexts and (2) examining the roles assumed by these actors in FEWS operations. Two groups of actor types were identified from the analysis: those that are highly recognized and frequently reported in the literature – “established actors” - and those that are relatively underrepresented and occasionally documented – “periphery actors”. We observed persistent biases in the multi-scalar and regional participatory FEWS operations. These biases include institutionalizing the operation of certain FEWS components at the national level around a few actor types, with limited to no involvement of other critical actors, such as those with a strong local presence. Interconnectedness among examined role categories can be leveraged to facilitate synergistic efforts in FEWS operations. This review highlights the need for standardized actor mapping and monitoring to consistently recognize and understand their roles.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":52341,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Disaster Science","volume":"29 ","pages":"Article 100529"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146077917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Disaster justice: A literature review","authors":"Jori Pascal Kalkman","doi":"10.1016/j.pdisas.2026.100533","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pdisas.2026.100533","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The unequal effects of disasters on different groups in society are becoming increasingly clear. Disaster justice scholars challenge this inequality by calling for a more equitable allocation of disaster risks, resources, and rights. The concept of ‘disaster justice’ has gained rapid prominence recently, because environmental transformations of our own making are increasingly wreaking havoc. Marginalized and vulnerable communities bear the brunt of the impact of these transformations. This literature review on disaster justice aims to integrate existing findings, identify main research themes, and explore knowledge gaps. The review is based on 43 publications, which discuss five main themes: 1) the conceptualization and operationalization of disaster justice, 2) marginalized groups, 3) disaster roots and disaster risk creation, 4) disaster governance, and 5) justice struggles. The review demonstrates that disaster justice research helps scholars systematically explore alternative disaster management approaches and practices that reduce the vulnerability of marginalized groups and render disaster outcomes more just. In future research, disaster justice scholars could engage more with other work on disaster management reform, offer insight into how different types of justice – distributive, recognitional, and procedural – interact, and analyze how discrimination within disaster organizations can pose barriers to meaningful societal change.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":52341,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Disaster Science","volume":"29 ","pages":"Article 100533"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146173647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ReliefNet: A Knowledge-Driven, Explainable AI Multimodal Framework for Disaster Severity Classification and Humanitarian Decision-Making","authors":"Khondokar Radwanur Rahman , Amith Khandakar , Md. Fahim Hossen , Shaikh Golam Rabbani , Aniruddha Saha , Md. Faysal Ahamed , Md. Munawar Hossain , Mohamed Arselene Ayari , Rajab Abdulla R.E. Al-Esmail","doi":"10.1016/j.pdisas.2026.100528","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pdisas.2026.100528","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Rapid and reliable disaster severity assessment from social media is difficult due to noisy content, modality imbalance, and limited labeled data. This paper introduces ReliefNet, a real-time multimodal framework for disaster severity classification that jointly analyzes images and text. The system integrates DualEmbedNet, a dual-encoder transformer for textual classification, and DisasterNet, a CNN with channel-wise attention for visual analysis, combined through an accuracy-weighted decision-level fusion mechanism that dynamically adapts to modality reliability at inference time. To mitigate labeling scarcity, we construct a unified dataset of 14,996 image-text pairs by merging CrisisMMD and TSEqD. Unlabeled samples are annotated using unsupervised multimodal K-Means clustering, followed by Grad-CAM guided ROI refinement and manual auditing to reduce label noise. Models are evaluated using an 80/10/10 train-validation-test split with metrics including accuracy, precision, recall, F1-score, calibration error, and robustness under missing-modality conditions. The image-only model achieves an F1-score of 97.66%, while ReliefNet attains 97.00% F1 with superior robustness and stability under noisy or incomplete inputs. Accuracy-weighted fusion improves F1-score by 0.7% over equal-weight fusion and outperforms standard CNN baselines such as ResNet and EfficientNet. All models operate in real time on a single NVIDIA GPU, demonstrating ReliefNet's practical deployability.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":52341,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Disaster Science","volume":"29 ","pages":"Article 100528"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146173626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Corrigendum to ‘Game theory applications in managing stakeholder conflicts for building safety and resilience against natural disasters’ [Progress in Disaster Science 26 (2025) 100409]","authors":"Amir Shahmohammadian , Mohsen Ghafory-Ashtiany","doi":"10.1016/j.pdisas.2026.100532","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pdisas.2026.100532","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52341,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Disaster Science","volume":"29 ","pages":"Article 100532"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147395215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"When survival is organized locally: Perspectives of community resilience by collective action to flooding in three informal settlements of Douala, Cameroon","authors":"Roussel Lalande Teguia Kenmegne , Jean-François Bissonnette , Roxane Lavoie , Denis Blouin","doi":"10.1016/j.pdisas.2026.100522","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pdisas.2026.100522","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article explores the potential of collective self-organization in three informal settlements in Douala, Cameroon, as a lever for community resilience to recurring floods. While the literature highlights the high vulnerability of these territories, it still pays little attention to the local forms of social and institutional regulation that emerge on the margins of the State. Based on an in-depth ethnographic survey conducted in Bois des Singes, Japoma Beach, and PK9, the study highlights the diversity of selective incentives mechanisms and social sanctions that shape local responses to flood risk. Risk perception has been identified as a trigger for collective action in settlements, but its expression varies depending on contexts and available resources. The analysis shows that community resilience stems from institutional diversity, in which residents combine customary norms and informal social practices to compensate for the ineffectiveness of public policies. These “bottom-up” regulations are based on the principle of reciprocity and on deterring opportunistic behavior, but they also generate forms of social exclusion. The article advocates for the need to link local initiatives to formal risk management mechanisms, without denying their autonomy. Finally, it proposes ways to better integrate these dynamics into more equitable and coordinated urban governance policies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":52341,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Disaster Science","volume":"29 ","pages":"Article 100522"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146022712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards cyclone resilience: Examining local challenges and best practices in shelter management in Sarankhola, Southwest Bangladesh","authors":"Ishrar Tahmin Anika , Edris Alam","doi":"10.1016/j.pdisas.2025.100510","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pdisas.2025.100510","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Bangladesh is the seventh most vulnerable country to climate-related hazards and is highly susceptible to intense cyclones. This study aims to identify shelter management challenges, existing practices, and resident-driven recommendations in four unions of Sarankhola, southwest Bangladesh, while also developing a perceived cyclone risk map. Using a mixed-methods approach, data was collected through twenty-four in-depth interviews (IDIs), 8 focus group discussions (FGDs), and 104 questionnaire surveys, with respondents equally distributed across the unions. Findings indicate that residents lack access to essential services, with limited facilities for pregnant women, lactating mothers, children, the elderly, and persons with disabilities. Although most cyclone shelters have ramps, the absence of specialized vehicles prevents volunteers from assisting people with disabilities effectively. Poor sanitation and hygiene conditions expose evacuees to health risks. While shelters are structurally safe from floods, the risk of building collapse persists due to neglected renovations. Despite the increased availability of cyclone shelters, poor road infrastructure and fear of theft hinder timely evacuation. Some residents also reported access restrictions imposed by school authorities managing the shelters. The study highlights that good governance can enhance shelter management by ensuring proper water supply, sanitation, and equitable relief distribution. Key recommendations include improving roads and drainage, ensuring nutrition-sensitive relief, engaging female volunteers, enhancing healthcare and accessibility support, and strengthening accountability for shelter maintenance. Effective management requires a coordinated, inclusive, governance-driven approach to sustain cyclone resilience.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":52341,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Disaster Science","volume":"29 ","pages":"Article 100510"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145926176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Process, challenges, and optimization strategies of digital intelligence-driven emergency collaboration in China","authors":"Xuanhan Cao , Wei Feng","doi":"10.1016/j.pdisas.2026.100535","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pdisas.2026.100535","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Existing research on digital intelligence (DI) in emergency management has primarily focused on the functional advantages of digital technologies, such as accelerating information processing, enhancing risk monitoring and early warning, and supporting emergency decision-making. These studies generally assume that digital technologies can improve emergency collaboration by overcoming spatial and temporal constraints. However, growing empirical evidence suggests that the deployment of DI does not automatically translate into effective collaboration among heterogeneous actors, and the mechanisms through which digital technologies are embedded in emergency collaboration processes remain insufficiently understood. To address this gap, this study investigates how DI-driven emergency collaboration unfolds in practice and why its effectiveness varies across contexts. Drawing on in-depth interviews with government agencies, enterprises, social organizations, and technical actors in Hunan Province, the study adopts an inductive qualitative approach to examine the process, challenges, and improvement pathways of DI-enabled emergency collaboration. The analysis shows that DI-driven emergency collaboration emerges from the interaction among multiple interrelated collaborative capabilities, forming a process-oriented and mutually reinforcing collaboration system rather than a set of independent technological functions. The study further reveals that the effectiveness of DI-driven emergency collaboration is shaped by both technical and managerial conditions, which influence how digital technologies are integrated into organizational routines and collaborative practices. By clarifying the process logic and constraints of DI-enabled emergency collaboration, this research advances understanding of how DI can more effectively support collaborative emergency governance and offers practical insights for improving emergency collaboration performance.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":52341,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Disaster Science","volume":"29 ","pages":"Article 100535"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146173649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}