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Champlin, C.J. (author), Sirenko, M. (author), Comes, M. (author)Covid-19 has dramatically changed life in cities across the globe. What remains uncertain is how national policies and appeals to comply with suggested rules translate to changes in the behaviour of citizens in urban areas. This lack of local knowledge leaves urban policy makers and planners with few clues as to the determinants of social...journal article 2023
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Nespeca, V. (author), Comes, M. (author), Brazier, F.M. (author)Qualitative research is a powerful means to capture human interactions and behavior. Although there are different methodologies to develop models based on qualitative research, a methodology is missing that enables to strike a balance between the comparability across cases provided by methodologies that rely on a common and context...journal article 2023
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Abdelgawad, Ahmed A. (author), Comes, M. (author)Evaluation and testing are significant steps in developing any information system. More attention must be devoted to these steps if the system is to be used in high-risk contexts, such as the response to conflict disasters. Several testing methodologies are designed to guarantee that software fulfills technology requirements; others will assure...book chapter 2023
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- Savelberg, Lotte (author), Homberg, Marc van den (author), Zatarain Salazar, J. (author), Casali, Y. (author), Comes, M. (author) abstract 2023
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Guo, Yanan (author), An, Shi (author), Comes, M. (author)During infectious disease outbreaks, early warning is crucial to prevent and control the further spread of the disease. While the different waves of the Covid-19 pandemic have demonstrated the need for continued compliance, little is known about the impact of warning messages and risk perception on individual behavior in public health...journal article 2022
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Casali, Y. (author), Aydin, N.Y. (author), Comes, M. (author)The challenges for sustainable cities to protect the environment, ensure economic growth, and maintain social justice have been widely recognized. Along with the digitization, availability of large datasets, Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are promising to revolutionize the way we analyze and plan urban areas, opening new...review 2022
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Falagara Sigala, Ioanna (author), Sirenko, M. (author), Comes, M. (author), Kovács, Gyöngyi (author)Purpose: The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has emerged as an unprecedented health crisis worldwide and heavily disrupted the healthcare supply chain. This study focuses on analysing the different types of disruptions occurring in personal protective equipment (PPE) supply chains during the COVID-19 pandemic and on proposing mitigation...journal article 2022
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Baharmand, Hossein (author), Vega, Diego (author), Lauras, Matthieu (author), Comes, M. (author)The growing need for humanitarian assistance has inspired an increasing amount of academic publications in the field of humanitarian logistics. Over the past two decades, the humanitarian logistics literature has developed a powerful toolbox of standardized problem formulations to address problems ranging from distribution to scheduling or...journal article 2022
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Paulus, D. (author), Fathi, Ramian (author), Fiedrich, Frank (author), van de Walle, B.A. (author), Comes, M. (author)Humanitarian crises, such as the 2014 West Africa Ebola epidemic, challenge information management and thereby threaten the digital resilience of the responding organizations. Crisis information management (CIM) is characterised by the urgency to respond despite the uncertainty of the situation. Coupled with high stakes, limited resources and a...journal article 2022
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Aylett-Bullock, Joseph (author), Gilman, Robert Tucker (author), Hall, Ian (author), Kennedy, David (author), Evers, Egmond Samir (author), Katta, Anjali (author), Ahmed, Hussien (author), Fong, Kevin (author), Comes, M. (author), Gaanderse, M.Q. (author)The spread of infectious diseases such as COVID-19 presents many challenges to healthcare systems and infrastructures across the world, exacerbating inequalities and leaving the world's most vulnerable populations at risk. Epidemiological modelling is vital to guiding evidence-informed or data-driven decision making. In forced displacement...journal article 2022
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de Bruijn, Karin M. (author), Jafino, Bramka A. (author), Merz, Bruno (author), Doorn, N. (author), Priest, Sally J. (author), Dahm, Ruben J. (author), Zevenbergen, C. (author), Aerts, Jeroen C.J.H. (author), Comes, M. (author)To prevent floods from becoming disasters, social vulnerability must be integrated into flood risk management. We advocate that the welfare of different societal groups should be included by adding recovery capacity, impacts of beyond-design events, and distributional impacts.journal article 2022
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Comes, M. (author), Alexander, David (author), Boin, Arjen (author), Eckert, Claudia (author), Elmqvist, Thomas (author), Fochesato, Mattia (author), Helbing, Dirk (author), Latusek-Jurczak, Dominika (author), Lauta, Kristian (author), Meriläinen, Eija (author), Nikkari, Simo (author), Papadimitratos, Panos (author), Renn, Ortwin (author), Rios Insua, David (author), Rizza, Caroline (author), Zio, Enrico (author)The evidence review report from SAPEA presents the latest scientific evidence on the subject of crisis management, and evidence-based policy options for action.<br/><br/>The European Union is confronted with an increasing number of crises with growing complexity. Their effects can cascade and ripple to all parts of society, the economy, and the...book 2022
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Streefkerk, I.N. (author), van den Homberg, Marc J.C. (author), Whitfield, Stephen (author), Mittal, Neha (author), Pope, Edward (author), Werner, Micha (author), Winsemius, H.C. (author), Comes, M. (author), Ertsen, M.W. (author)Droughts and changing rainfall patterns due to natural climate variability and climate change, threaten the livelihoods of Malawi's smallholder farmers, who constitute 80% of the population. Provision of seasonal climate forecasts (SCFs) is one means to potentially increase the resilience of rainfed farming to drought by informing farmers in...journal article 2022
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Nespeca, V. (author), Comes, M. (author), Brazier, F.M. (author)Agent-based models (ABM) for policy design need to be grounded in empirical data. While many ABMs rely on quantitative data such as surveys, much empirical research in the social sciences is based on qualitative research methods such as interviews or observations that are hard to translate into a set of quantitative rules, leading to a gap in...conference paper 2022
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Teodoro Morales, J.D. (author), Doorn, N. (author), Kwakkel, J.H. (author), Comes, M. (author)To adapt to a changing climate, decision-makers design, evaluate, and implement measures that have an implication of justice on citizens in the present and well into the future. Decision-makers are often required to make decisions without certainty of the consequences and understanding their effects on intergenerational justice. Thus, managing...journal article 2022
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Aydin, N.Y. (author), Krishnan, S. (author), Yu, H. (author), Comes, M. (author)Cities are complex socio-technical systems (STSs) under tremendous stress due to climate change. To incorporate resilience into urban plans and move towards evidence-based long-term decision-making, we must unravel complex land-use dynamics and the effect of climate uncertainties on cities. Currently, land-use dynamics are explored through...conference paper 2022
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Saldaña Ochoa, Karla (author), Comes, M. (author)Along with climate change, more frequent extreme events, such as flooding and tropical cyclones, threaten the livelihoods and wellbeing of poor and vulnerable populations. One of the most immediate needs of people affected by a disaster is finding shelter. While the proliferation of data on disasters is already helping to save lives, identifying...conference paper 2021
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Casali, Y. (author), Aydin, N.Y. (author), Comes, M. (author)The Covid19 crisis has highlighted once more that socio-economic inequalities are a main driver of vulnerability. Especially in densely populated urban areas, however, these inequalities can drastically change even within neighbourhoods. To better prepare for urban crises, more granular techniques are needed to assess these vulnerabilities, and...conference paper 2021
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Baharmand, Hossein (author), Saeed, Naima (author), Comes, M. (author), Matthieu, Lauras (author)Blockchain technology promises to improve the efficiency, transparency, and accountability of humanitarian operations. Yet at the same time, especially the humanitarian context with its characteristic volatility poses unique challenges to any technology. Most prominent are the humanitarian principles that are fundamental to humanitarian...journal article 2021
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Slingerland, G. (author), Kooijman, Julia (author), Lukosch, Stephan (author), Comes, M. (author), Brazier, F.M. (author)This paper focuses on the particular power of storytelling to foster reflection and connections between people in urban life. In fact, the core principles and mechanisms for public storytelling to achieve this have yet to be made explicit. This gap is addressed by introducing a novel reflective storytelling framework that unveils the underlying...journal article 2021