Co-production of climate change vulnerability assessment: A case study of the Indian Lesser Himalayan region, Darjeeling

The intensity and extent of climate change impacts differ signifcantly with the geographical and ecological structure of the landscape. This is especially evident in mountain ecosystems where topographic, climatic and biological gradients make them extremely vulnerable to global environmental changes . Designing strategies to mitigate and adapt...

Data-driven Update of AGROVOC Using Agricultural Text Corpora

AGROVOC is a well-known multilingual controlled vocabulary covering the fields of agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and food. It is used for dataset annotation, indexing of literature, and automated text tagging, and its effective use depends on its continuous update. Currently, updates are done manually by a dispersed community of editors. In...

A semantic data model for a fair digital repository of heterogeneous agricultural digital objects: The case of the eureka farmbook

Decision-making and operations in disasters: Challenges and opportunities

Purpose: Decision-making structures are commonly associated with the logistics challenges experienced during disaster operations. However, the alignment between the operational level and the decision-making structure is commonly overlooked. The purpose of this paper is to provide an analysis of the fit of both levels and its impact on...

The Applicability of Blockchain Technology in the Mobility and Logistics Domain

Blockchain technology in the last 3–4 years has attracted a great deal of attention due to its potential for the disruption various sectors of the economy including the financial sector, and more recently the mobility and logistics domain. The technology, which was developed as the foundation for the cryptocurrency Bitcoin, has developed much...

Dynamic formulation for humanitarian response operations incorporating multiple organisations

Disasters represent a significant challenge for countries globally. Balancing human and material resources during these situations is not a trivial issue, and that is further complicated by the participation of several actors at multiple periods. However, there is an absence of articles considering the importance of deploying only the required...

Exploiting ontologies for deep learning: A case for sentiment mining

Applying blockchain technology for hyperconnected logistics

Blockchain technology receives a lot of interest and investments the last three years. It promises a trusted environment for (un)permissioned data sharing. With respect to logistics, enterprises and authorities can (near) real time share state information. Whenever a stakeholder changes the state of one or more objects like discharging a...

Governance and business models of blockchain technologies and networks

Disaster preparedness in humanitarian logistics A collaborative approach for resource management in floods