TY - JOUR U1 - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed) A1 - Fekete, Alexander A1 - Rhyner, Jakob T1 - Sustainable Digital Transformation of Disaster Risk—Integrating New Types of Digital Social Vulnerability and Interdependencies with Critical Infrastructure JF - Sustainability N2 - This article explores the relationship between digital transformation and disaster risk.Vulnerability studies aim at differentiating impacts and losses by using fine-grained information fromdemographic, social, and personal characteristics of humans. With ongoing digital development,these characteristics will transform and result in new traits, which need to be identified andintegrated. Digital transformations will produce new social groups, partly human, semi-human,or non-human—some of which already exist, and some which can be foreseen by extrapolating fromrecent developments in the field of brain wearables, robotics, and software engineering. Thoughinvolved in the process of digital transformation, many researchers and practitioners in the field ofDisaster Risk Reduction or Climate Change Adaptation are not yet aware of the repercussions fordisaster and vulnerability assessments. Emerging vulnerabilities are due to a growing dependency ondigital services and tools in the case of a severe emergency or crisis. This article depicts the differentimplications for future theoretical frameworks when identifying novel semi-human groups and theirvulnerabilities to disaster risks. Findings include assumed changes within common indicators of socialvulnerability, new indicators, a typology of humans, and human interrelations with digital extensionsand two different perspectives on these groups and their dependencies with critical infrastructure. KW - Cybersicherheit KW - Societal resilience KW - Uncertainty KW - Climate change adaptation KW - Sustainable development KW - Transhumanism KW - Brain wearables KW - Disaster risk management KW - Artificial intelligence KW - Contingency planning KW - Cybersecurity KW - Resilienz KW - Klimaänderung KW - Nachhaltigkeit KW - Künstliche Intelligenz KW - Risikomanagement Y1 - 2020 UN - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:832-epub4-16383 SN - 2071-1050 SS - 2071-1050 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3390/su12229324 DO - https://doi.org/10.3390/su12229324 VL - 12 IS - 22 SP - 18 S1 - 18 PB - MDPI ER -