Recent decades have seen a rise in the use of physics methods to study different societal
phenomena. This development has been due to physicists venturing outside of their …

Natural hazards have the potential to cause catastrophic damage and significant
socioeconomic loss. The actual damage and loss observed in the recent decades has …

Well-being is an important value for people's lives, and it could be considered as an index of
societal progress. Researchers have suggested two main approaches for the overall …

Undoubtedly, the age of big data has opened new options for natural disaster management,
primarily because of the varied possibilities it provides in visualizing, analyzing, and …

With rapid urbanization and increasing climate risks, enhancing the resilience of urban
systems has never been more important. Despite the availability of massive datasets of …

Spatially explicit population grid can play an important role in climate change, resource
management, sustainable development and other fields. Several gridded datasets already …

As rates of new coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases decline across Europe owing
to nonpharmaceutical interventions such as social distancing policies and lockdown …

Rapid urbanization and climate change trends, intertwined with complex interactions of
various social, economic, and political factors, have resulted in an increase in the frequency …

Today's increased availability of large amounts of human behavioral data and advances in
artificial intelligence (AI) are contributing to a growing reliance on algorithms to make …

Uncovering the structure of socioeconomic systems and timely estimation of socioeconomic
status are significant for economic development. The understanding of socioeconomic …