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Transforming Disaster Risk Reduction with AI and Big Data: Legal and Interdisciplinary Perspectives

  • Kwok Pan Chun
  • , Thanti Octavianti
  • , Nilay Dogulu
  • , Hristos Tyralis
  • , Georgia Papacharalampous
  • , Ryan Rowberry
  • , Mark Everard
  • , Maria Francesch-Huidobro
  • , Wellington Migliari
  • , David M. Hannah
  • , John Travis Marshall
  • , Rafael Tolosana Calasanz
  • , Chad Staddon
  • , Bastien Dieppois
  • , Ida Ansharyani
  • , Todd Lewis
  • , Juli Ponce
  • , Silvia Ibrean
  • , Tiago Miguel Ferreira
  • , Chinkie Pelino-Golle
  • Ye Mu, Manuela Davila Delgado, Elizabeth Silvestra Espinoza, Martin Keulertz, Deepak Gopinath, Cheng Li
  • University of the West of England
  • Hong Kong Baptist University
  • World Meteorological Organization
  • Hellenic Air Force Academy
  • National Technical University of Athens
  • Georgia State University
  • The University of Hong Kong
  • Universitat de Barcelona
  • University of Birmingham
  • Universidad de Zaragoza
  • Universitas Samawa
  • United Nations Volunteers
  • EcoWaste Coallition
  • University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Birmingham City University
  • Yangzhou University

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Abstract

Managing complex disaster risks requires interdisciplinary efforts. Breaking down silos between law, social sciences, and natural sciences is critical for all processes of disaster risk reduction. It is essential to explore how AI enhances understanding of legal frameworks and environmental management, while also examining how legal and environmental factors may limit AI’s role in the society. From a co-production review perspective, drawing on insights from lawyers, social scientists, and environmental scientists, principles for responsible data mining are proposed based on safety, transparency, fairness, accountability, and contestability. This discussion offers a blueprint for interdisciplinary collaboration to create adaptive law systems based on AI integration of knowledge from environmental and social sciences. When social networks are useful for mitigating disaster risks based on AI, the legal implications related to privacy and liability of the outcomes of disaster management must be considered. Fair and accountable principles emphasise environmental considerations and foster socioeconomic discussions related to public engagement. AI also has an important role to play in education, bringing together the next generations of law, social sciences, and natural sciences to work on interdisciplinary solutions in harmony. Although emerging AI approaches can be powerful tools for disaster management, they must be implemented with ethical considerations and safeguards to address concerns about bias, transparency, and privacy. The responsible execution of AI approaches, based on the dynamic interplay between AI, law, and environmental risk, promotes sustainable and equitable practices in data mining.
Original languageEnglish
Article numbere70011
Number of pages11
JournalWIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
Volume15
Issue number2
Early online date14 Apr 2025
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2025

Bibliographical note

This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Funding

This work was supported by K.C. and T.O. work together on the Royal Society (IEC\NSFC\223132) project on “Spatiotemporal Variation Characteristics of Compound Dry and Hot Events and Their Impacts on Vegetation Growth Across the Mid-latitudes of Eurasia”. K.C. is supported by the Vice Chancellor's Accelerator Programme Award (2022–2024) to develop AI and Big Data approaches for extracting climate and weather information from convection-permitting models for environmental management in urban and green and blue spaces. He is also an awardee, along with MD and TMF, for the Vice Chancellor's Challenge Fund (2023–2024) “VIS- Studio: An Immersive Reality and AI Solution for Data Visualization to Support Collaborative Decision-Making for Extreme Weather and Disaster Scenarios”. T.O. is a Vice Chancellor's Earlier Career Awardee for Responsible AI. This publication is part of the project PID2020-113037RB-I00, funded by Project Inter_ ECODAL (PID2020-113796RB-I00/MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033). This work has been supported by the Departamento de Ciencia, Universidad y Sociedad del Conocimiento del Gobierno de Aragón. NERC- FAPESP-NSTC Land UseChange Investigation and Regional Climate (LIRIC) (NE/Z504026/1) and Climate Collaboratorium: Co- creation of Applied Theatre Decision Labs for exploring Climate Adaptation and Mitigation (ES/Z000238/1)

FundersFunder number
Departamento de Ciencia, Universidad y Sociedad del Conocimiento. Gobierno de Aragó
The Royal SocietyIEC\NSFC\223132, 2022–2024, PID2020‐113037RB‐I00, 2023–2024, PID2020‐113796RB‐I00/MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033
Natural Environment Research Council

    Keywords

    • Disaster risk reduction
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Interdisciplinary
    • Law
    • public engagement

    Themes

    • Understanding and Modelling Environmental Processes

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