ISCRAM 2019 in Valencia- Towards closer exchange in crisis management between practitioners, stakeholders and researchers

The 16th ISCRAM conference took place in the city of Valencia (Spain). It succeeded again to gather an international audience of researchers that shared their work all around crisis management.

As ISCRAM is mainly interested in the support and intersection of practical application in crisis management and research, the focus was however again on another group of actors: the practitioners and stakeholders. They coordinate efforts and need to take decisions on the ground- based on data and applications and related information. The ISCRAM conference is a great platform for the exchange of researchers and practitioners/stakeholders to allow for combined applications.

Our team from Heidelberg contributed in different forms to the ISCRAM. Martin Hilljegerdes gave a talk about effects of consecutive hurricane events on evacuation patterns, Melanie Eckle presented research about the demand and supply of humanitarian geodata use, and presented the Missing Maps project in scope of the workshop “Encouraging Productive Interaction between Practitioners and Researchers” and Carolin Klonner gave insights into a participatory approach based on sketch maps for group discussions about flood experiences.

The ISCRAM conference was a great opportunity to discuss our research with people from different other institutions and identify possible ideas to take our ideas further through sustainable collaborations- also in some special contexts like, e.g., the Paella Workshop that all participants were invited to join.

First ISCRAM Paella Workshop
ISCRAM at City of Arts and Science

Martin Hilljegerdes, & Ellen-Wien Augustijn-Beckers. (2019). Evaluating the effects of consecutive hurricane hits on evacuation patterns in Dominica. In Z. Franco, J. J. González, & J. H. Canós (Eds.), Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management (pp. 462–472). Valencia, Spain: Iscram.

Carolin Klonner, & Luca Blessing. (2019). Gathering Local Knowledge for Disaster Risk Reduction: The Use of Sketch Maps in Group Discussions. In Z. Franco, J. J. González, & J. H. Canós (Eds.), Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management (pp. 1397–1398). Valencia, Spain: Iscram.

Melanie Eckle, Sven Lautenbach, & Alexander Zipf. (2019). Towards bridging the gap between demand and supply in humanitarian geodata use. In Z. Franco, J. J. González, & J. H. Canós (Eds.), Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response And Management (pp. 1381–1382). Valencia, Spain: Iscram.


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