International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment

Nature-related features and children’s well-being in post-disaster school design

Paramita Atmodiwirjo, Rokhshid Ghaziani, Supreeya Wungpatcharapon, Ratna Djuwita, Yandi Andri Yatmo

This study aims to identify the role of nature-related features in promoting well-being from the perspective of children as the users of post-disaster schools. It highlights the…

Influencing factors on building and improving social trust in emergency and disaster relief efforts: a systematic review

HamidReza Khankeh, Mehrdad Farrokhi, Mohammad Saatchi, Mohammad Pourebrahimi, Juliet Roudini, Amin Rahmatali Khazaee, Mariye Jenabi Ghods, Elham Sepahvand, Maryam Ranjbar, Mohammadjavad Hosseinabadi-Farahani

This study aims to review the results of relevant studies to shed light on social trust-building in different contexts and the factors that affect it in disaster risk management.

US road safety during COVID-19: motorist, pedestrian and bicyclist fatality trends

Nicholas N. Ferenchak

The purpose of this paper is to illustrate how COVID-19 lockdowns in the USA impacted traffic safety.

Understanding university enterprise collaboration for disaster resilience in South-East Asia

Rebeka Catherine Tucker, Champika Liyanage, Sarita Jane Robinson, Darryl Roy Montebon, Charlotte Kendra Gotangco Gonzales, Joselito C. Olpoc, Liza B. Patacsil, Sarintip Tantanee, Panu Buranajarukorn, Orawan Sirisawat Apichayaku, Rukmal N. Weerasinghe, Rsanjith Dissanayake

This paper is part of the ERASMUS+-funded Strengthening University Enterprise Collaboration for Resilient Communities in Asia (SECRA) project. This study aims to map collaborative…

Evaluation of animal safe places for emergency evacuation in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia

Olabode Emmanuel Ogunmakinde, Temitope Egbelakin, Robert Henderson

This project aims to improve understanding of disaster preparedness and resilience, as well as animal recovery during a disaster event. The purpose of this study is to determine…

Public preference of flood-resilient housing technologies in Nigeria: a case study of Kogi State

Hope Ameh, Jessica Lamond

The purpose of this paper is to explore flood-prone area residents' preferences of flood-resilient housing technologies (HTs), to understand the factors influencing their choices…

Housing reconstruction after traumatic events: a Poe study of Bam housing after the 2003 earthquake, Iran

Saeedeh Asadi, Ali Sharghi, Zoheir Mottaki, Bahram Salehsedghpour

Earthquake stressful events cause many consequences and need for survivors. Housing reconstruction is one of the most urgent needs; due to traumatic experiences, dialectical…

Living with water: quantitative assessment of property-level resilience to urban flooding

Alolote Amadi, Onaopepo Adeniyi

This paper aims to quantitively assess the resilience of residential properties to urban flooding in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, and assess whether they vary at spatially aggregated…

Examining governance of post-earthquake reconstruction planning from an evolutionary resilience perspective

Yiwen Shao, Yao Sun

The politically laden nature of postdisaster recovery calls for more research on its governance, especially at the micro-scale. Apart from engineering-oriented frameworks…

Building national disaster resilience: assessment of ENSO-driven disasters in Peru

Alain Jorge Espinoza Vigil, Julian David Booker

Societies go through complex challenges in the face of the vertiginous increase in disasters, mostly produced by the effects of extreme events. The lack of capacity to deal with…

Tsunami-resilient building guidelines for Sri Lankan coastal belt: a critical review and consolidation based on significant institutional perceptions

Udari Gunarathna, Chaminda Senarathna Bandara, Ranjith Dissanayake, Harsha Munasinghe

The lessons learned from the 2004 tsunami phenomenon fueled the government and other local authorities to strengthen the legitimate background to mitigate such devastation in…

A fuzzy logic approach for measuring flood resilience at community level in Nigeria

Ezekiel Olaoluwa Olatunji, Oluseye Adewale Adebimpe, Victor Oluwasina Oladokun

Flood resilience is a critical concept in flood risk management (FRM). Meanwhile, flood resilience measurement has become vital for making the business case for investment in FRM…

Standardised indicators for “resilient cities”: the folly of devising a technical solution to a political problem

Ksenia Chmutina, Gonzalo Lizarralde, Jason von Meding, Lee Bosher

Driven by the New Urban Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals, decision makers have been striving to reorientate policy debates towards the aspiration of achieving urban…

Inclusive and resilient shelter guide: accounting for the needs of informal settlements in Solomon Islands

Mittul Vahanvati, Darryn McEvoy, Usha Iyer-Raniga

This paper aims to highlight the localised shelter solutions to fulfil adequate and disaster resilient housing needs of urban informal settlers of Honiara, the capital city of…

Resilient evacuation infrastructure; an assessment of resilience toward natural hazards

Azin Fathianpour, Mostafa Babaeian Jelodar, Suzanne Wilkinson, Barry Evans

As evacuation is one of the most used response actions to such disasters, it is essential to understand correctly what a resilient evacuation would mean. One critical factor in…

The correlation between social resilience and flooding in low-income communities: a case of Mzuzu City, Malawi

Wisdom Bwanali, Mtafu Manda

Floods are among the most frequent urban disasters in cities of the global south where capacity and resource limitations collude with rapid urbanization to force many poor people…

Flood hazard assessment using design rainfall under climate change scenarios in the Kelantan River Basin, Malaysia

Tze Huey Tam, Muhammad Zulkarnain Abdul Rahman, Sobri Harun, Shamsuddin Shahid, Sophal Try, Mohamad Hidayat Jamal, Zamri Ismail, Khamarrul Azahari Razak, Mohd Khairolden Ghani, Yusrin Faiz Abdul Wahab

The present study aims to evaluate the effect of climate change on the flood hazard potential in the Kelantan River Basin using current and future scenarios.

Scoping review: understanding the barriers and drivers of risk management in local governments

Eve Bourgeois, Pierre-Luc Baril, Julie-Maude Normandin, Marie-Christine Therrien

This paper aims to provide scholars with a deep understanding of the field through the identification of strengths and weaknesses in the literature and support decision-makers in…

Measurement of city road network resilience in hazardous flood events

Mukesh M.S., Yashwant B. Katpatal, Digambar S. Londhe

Recently, the serviceability of the transportation infrastructure in urban areas has become crucial. Any impact of the hazardous conditions on the urban road network causes…

Development of convenient flood risk assessment method to community level: the case in the Deduru Oya basin in Sri Lanka

Sisira Bandara Wanninayake, Rekha Nianthi, Og Dayarathne Banda

Floods have been identified as the most frequent and threatening disaster in Sri Lanka amidst an increasing trend of natural and man-made disasters in the world. Subject experts…

Flood susceptibility mapping in anthropogenic wetland area, Shadegan County, Southwest of Iran

Somaiyeh Khaleghi, Ahmad Jadmavinejad

Shadegan County as a wetland area was selected because of its susceptibility to flooding hazards and inundation. The purpose of this paper is to analyze flooding hazard based on…

Design of transformable transitional shelter for post disaster relief

Merve Cerrahoğlu, Feray Maden

The most important need after natural disasters is the sheltering. However, most of the existing temporary shelters do not meet all requirements for long-term use and not provide…

Relative importance of safety against natural disasters for residential selection: a case study at Osaka prefecture, Japan

Tomoyuki Takabatake, Nanami Hasegawa, Suguru Nishigaki

This study aims to clarify the following research questions: to what extent do people consider natural disaster risks as important for residential selection? what personal…

Ethical analysis of architecture on structural irregularities in major earthquakes in Turkey

Mustafa Dallı, Asena Soyluk

The aim of this study is to question the relationship between architectural ethical codes and faults in earthquakes. Earthquakes have devastating effects on all societies in…

Evaluation of safe-to-fail flood solution alternatives and integration of safe-to-fail concept in AEC education to develop resilient coastal cities

Rubaya Rahat, Piyush Pradhananga, Mohamed ElZomor

Safe-to-fail (SF) is an emerging resilient design approach that has the potential to minimize the severity of flood damages. The purpose of this study is to explore the SF design…

Reflections on science, technology and innovation on the aspirations of the Sendai framework for disaster risk reduction

Bismark Adu-Gyamfi, Ariyaningsih  , He Zuquan, Nanami Yamazawa, Akiko Kato, Rajib Shaw

The Sendai framework for disaster risk reduction (DRR) 2015–2030 offers guidelines to reduce disaster losses and further delivers a wake-up call to be conscious of disasters. Its…

Development of critical infrastructure resilience index for cities in Sri Lanka

Udara Sachinthana Perera, Chandana Siriwardana, Ishani Shehara Pitigala Liyana Arachchi

Infrastructures become critical with the emerging threats triggering through disasters. Sri Lanka is a country with a higher risk of disaster impacts, in which the eye-opening has…

Post COVID-19 pandemic possible business continuity strategies for construction industry revival a preliminary study in the Malaysian construction industry

Yaser Gamil, A.H. Al-Sarafi, Taoufik Najeh

COVID-19 pandemic has unprecedentedly shattered the entire world economy and development. Without exclusion, the construction industry has undergone very extreme disruption. Many…

Resilience assessment of health-care facilities within urban context: learning from a non-profit hospital in Tehran, Iran

Mehrdad Rahmani, Aynaz Lotfata, Sarasadat Khoshnevis, Komar Javanmardi, Mehmet Emin Akdogan

Tehran’s health-care system is growing, yet it lacks emergency planning procedures. The premise of this study is that the urban environment around a hospital is just as robust as…

Urban search and rescue (USAR) simulation in earthquake environments using queuing theory: estimating the appropriate number of rescue teams

Navid Hooshangi, Navid Mahdizadeh Gharakhanlou, Seyyed Reza Ghaffari-Razin

The duration of an urban search and rescue (USAR) operation directly depends on the number of rescue teams involved. The purpose of this paper is to simplify the earthquake…

Flood knowledge management by multiple stakeholders: an example from Malaysia

Nurul Zainab Binti Along, Iftekhar Ahmed, Jamie MacKee

The purpose of this study is to explore multiple stakeholders managing the different type of knowledge in a flood-prone area. Different stakeholders hold different types of…

Resilient WASH development for urban poor: the case of Ahmedabad slums

Akshat Yaumin Thakore, Mona Iyer, Gargi Mishra, Siddh Doshi

Climate variability, accompanied by rapid urbanization and rising population disproportionality, impacts urban poor settlements. This paper aims to analyse the climate resilience…

Postdisaster relocation and its impacts on family dynamics: a case study of typhoon Ketsana relocation in the Philippines

Paoloregel Samonte, Riyanti Djalante

In the realm of disaster risk reduction (DRR) efforts and disaster resilience discipline globally, the impacts of disasters at the family level – especially in terms of…

Spatio-temporal vegetation cover analysis to determine climate change in Papua New Guinea

Tingneyuc Sekac, Sujoy Kumar Jana, Indrajit Pal

The climate change and related impacts are experienced around the world. There arise different triggering factors to climate change and impact. The purpose of this study is to…

Empirical study of housing recovery and property abandonment following valley fire in California: insights from neighborhood characteristics and building attributes

Pejman Rezakhani

This paper aims to examine how neighborhood characteristics (income, population composition) and individual building attributes (ownership) affect the recovery period of…

Temporary housing site selection in Soffeh Mountain, District 5 of Isfahan, Iran

Sayed Arash Hosseini Sabzevari, Zoheir Mottaki, Atoosa Hassani, Somayeh Zandiyeh, Fereshteh Aslani

Finding an appropriate place for temporary housing after an earthquake is one of the main challenges of disaster risk management, especially in developing countries. Therefore, it…

Review of Tsunami early warning system and coastal resilience with a focus on Indian Ocean

Indrajit Pal, Subhajit Ghosh, Itesh Dash, Anirban Mukhopadhyay

This paper aims to provide a general overview of the international Tsunami warning system mandated by the United Nations, particularly on cataloging past studies and a strategic…

Temporary sheltering areas in case of earthquakes: engineering design, implementation and policy experiences. The case of Quito – Ecuador

Fabricio Yépez, Juan Pablo Villacreses

This paper aims to present implementation of temporary sheltering areas (TSAs), in case of earthquakes for Quito, as a low-cost mitigation project in developing countries. Four…

Adaptation measures on hydrological risks and climate change impacts in urbanized sub-region, Thailand: a case study in lower Chao Phraya River basin

Sutinee Chao-Amonphat, Vilas Nitivattananon, Sirinapha Srinonil

This study aims to explain the existing adaptation practices in an urbanized sub-region in the lower Chao Phraya River basin (CPRB) across different scales and dimensions. It…

Develop a situation-based prioritization program as a road map to enhance the pre-resilience in flood management using machine learning methods

Samirasadat Samadi, Mohammad Saeed Taslimi

This study aims to review the features and challenges of the flood relief chain, identifies administrative measures during and after the flood occurrence and prioritizes them…

Multihazard risk assessment of educational institutes of Dehradun, Uttarakhand

Shivani Chouhan, Aishwarya Narang, Mahua Mukherjee

In the event of a disaster, educational institutions like schools serve as lifeline buildings. Hence, it is crucial to safeguard these buildings for the communities that may…

Identifying the potential participation in natural disaster insurance: first attempt based on a national socio-economic survey in Indonesia

Siskarossa Ika Oktora, Ika Yuni Wulansari, Tiodora Hadumaon Siagian, Bagaskoro Cahyo Laksono, Ni Nyoman Ria Sugiandewi, Nabila Anindita

This study aims to identify the regions with a high risk of natural disaster, estimate the proportion of households potentially participating in natural disaster insurance and…

Rooftop rainwater harvesting for sustainable water usage in residential buildings for climate resilient city building: case study of Rajshahi, Bangladesh

Muhammad Waresul Hassan Nipun, Md Ashik-Ur-Rahman, Sharmin Yousuf Rikta, Afshana Parven, Indrajit Pal

The effects of population growth in the developing world and climate change have increased the stress on available water resources. The majority of Rajshahi city, Bangladesh, is…