Recovery from the pandemic: Planning the reterritorialisation of agricultural activities

This chapter discusses planning the reterritorialisation of agricultural activities as an avenue of the Covid-19 pandemic recovery. Reterritorialisation indicates local food being targeted to local inhabitants instead of the global market. We argue that the pandemic has accelerated the reterritorialisation process. Supply chain actors actively...

The Impact of ventilation systems on controlling the Spread of Covid-19

The closure of educational institutions during the COVID-19 pandemic had significant negative impacts, emphasizing the need to keep schools open while ensuring safety. It is crucial to find ways to keep educational institutions open while ensuring the safety of students and staff. While measures such as mask-wearing and social distancing have...

Large Scale Calibration of Agent-Based Models in Social Systems with Sensitive Data

The moral source of collective irrationality during COVID-19 vaccination campaigns

Many hypotheses have been advanced to explain the collective irrationality of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy, such as partisanship and ideology, exposure to misinformation and conspiracy theories or the effectiveness of public messaging. This paper presents a complementary explanation to epistemic accounts of collective irrationality, focusing on...

Digital Participation in Urban Planning: A promising tool or technocratic obstacle to citizen engagement?

Over time, urban planning scholars have studied ways to improve communication and collaboration between ‘experts’ and the ‘public’ in planning processes. Social media and the web 2.0 have strongly affected governments’ communication with citizens. The growth of public participation, Geographic Information Systems and geo-visualisation interfaces...

Visualisation of the airflow pattern of exhaled droplets in a classroom

The airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in educational buildings has raised concerns during the current COVID-19 pandemic. In this study, a portable fog generator system was designed and assembled to visualise the airflow pattern of exhaled droplets in a classroom. The system consists of five components: medium, fog generator, buffer, pump, and...

Changing Civil Servants' Awareness about Open Data Using a Collaborative Digital Game

According to open government principles, public administration should make its data available to the public to create transparency, accountability, and to facilitate participation in public decision-making. Open-Data Policies (ODPs) were developed to encourage the opening of governmental data to the public, but require collaboration and...