ISCRAM 2025: Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management 2025 Conference Marriott Harbourview Hotel Halifax, Canada, May 18-21, 2025

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ISCRAM 2025: Managing and Responding to Coastal Disasters & Climate Change 

The International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM) is a premier global forum for professionals and academics focused on developing and applying innovative information systems for crisis management. ISCRAM facilitates the exchange of cutting-edge research, best practices, and real-world experiences, making it an essential event for those committed to improving crisis response and resilience.

The theme of the ISCRAM 2025 conference is “Managing and Responding to Coastal Disasters and Climate Change”. Coastal communities are particularly vulnerable to various natural pressures associated with the ocean and atmosphere, whether slow-acting, such as erosion or salt-water intrusion, or precipitous, such as hurricanes or storm surges. Innumerable studies and policies focus on community adaptation and improved resilience, but some hazards inevitably overwhelm the social system, requiring emergency response. Some of these natural phenomena are exacerbated by climate change, which can affect the frequency and/or the severity of adverse events. 

Call for Papers

The ISCRAM 2025 conference committee invites two broad categories of research papers: 

​​​CoRe: Completed Research (from 4000 to 8000) Submission Deadline January 5, 2025

WiP: Work in Progress (from 3000 to 6000 words) Submission Deadline February 16th, 2025

​CoRe papers are longer and describe completed research studies. WiP papers are shorter and meant to describe smaller, more focused research findings or research that is still in progress. Both of these paper types undergo a rigorous peer-review process and will be archived in the ISCRAM digital library (https://idl.iscram.org/)

​All articles must be submitted to one of the tracks outlined here.  Once submitted, articles will be distributed for evaluation among the pool of reviewers according to their domain of expertise and the topics addressed by the research paper (https://iscram.org/reviewing-guidelines-condensed-version/). Papers related to the conference themes are particularly welcome. Accepted papers will be organized into sessions for the conference that will be distributed among the tracks.

​All submissions will be made electronically using the ISCRAM templates. A PDF document should be submitted for all types of submissions. All submissions can be electronically uploaded using the EasyChair service for ISCRAM. Once submissions are accepted, authors will need to use the final proceedings template to submit publishable versions (this template includes author names etc.).  

For ISCRAM 2025 we further welcome practitioner contributions in the Practitioner Track below. While practitioners are also invited to submit a CoRe or WiP research paper, we recognize that an academic review process is often not appropriate for practitioner contributions. Therefore, we invite practitioners to give a talk without having to submit a paper beforehand (more information on the practitioner track  

About Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

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