The journal RISK ANALYSIS (http://www.sra.org/sra-journal) is to publish a special issue on Spatial Risk Analysis 

Call for Papers:

Risk and decision analysts, as well as policy makers, are often faced with problems having spatial characteristics. Where to bury nuclear waste? Where to build up flood defenses? Where to prioritize clean-up operations after disasters? How to assess the chance of finding a missing aircraft over a wide area? How best to present geographical uncertainty to emergency managers who need to take urgent decisions? Spatial variability is increasingly recognized as a key component in health, safety, and environmental exposure and risk assessment. 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, but, arguably, without a proper risk -analytic framework. Presentation of spatial and geographical uncertainty is also of key importance, with many open challenges.

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 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:
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Expert judgement probability elicitation and validation for spatial risk analysis.
4. Aggregation of multidimensional risk impacts for a certain geography.
5. Appraisal of spatial heterogeneity and heterogeneous vulnerability assessment frameworks for spatial risk analysis.
6. Spatio-temporal logics for interrogating GIS to support risk analyses and underpin decision support systems

Key Dates
Submission Deadline: June 30, 2016
First-Round Reviews (target): October 1, 2016
Special Issue Published: Early 2017

We encourage you to submit your papers.  The full call for papers, which includes links to detailed instructions on housestyle and submission, is at: http://www.sra.org/sites/default/files/pdf/Call%20for%20Papers_Spatial%20Analysis.pdf
Please contact the editors if you require any further advice.

SI Editors:  Nikolaos Argyris (Loughborough University, [log in to unmask]), Valentina Ferretti (London School of Economics, [log in to unmask]), Simon French (University of Warwick, [log in to unmask]), Gilberto Montibeller (Loughborough University, [log in to unmask]).

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