International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment: Volume 12 Issue 2

Positive effects of earthquake from the perspective of people with physical disability in Iran

Shahrzad Pakjouei, Aidin Aryankhesal, Mohammad Kamali, Hesam Seyedin, Mohammad Heidari

Earthquake usually causes death, injury, disability and destruction of buildings and infrastructure, and people with disabilities are usually affected more than healthy people. As…

Experience and the perceived efficacy of cyclone preparedness behaviour

Mitchell Scovell, Connar McShane, Anne Swinbourne

Cyclone preparedness activities can significantly reduce household-related property damage and the negative knock-on effects. Research has found, however, that many people do not…

The role of perception of local government officials on climate change and resilient development: a case of Uttarakhand, India

Thinles Chondol, Ashish Kumar Panda, Anil Kumar Gupta, Nirupama Agrawal, Amarjeet Kaur

This paper aims to gain insight on the perception and role of the local government officials on climate change and resilience in Uttarakhand, India. Uttarakhand, being a sensitive…

Narratives of everyday resilience: lessons from an urban kampung community in Surabaya, Indonesia

Shirleyana, Scott Hawken, Riza Yosia Sunindijo, David Sanderson

This paper aims to discuss what people perceive as risks and resilience factors, and how they build everyday resilience.

Cost-based resilience assessment of bridges subjected to earthquakes

Sotirios A. Argyroudis, Giorgos Nasiopoulos, Nikolaos Mantadakis, Stergios Aristoteles Mitoulis

Transport infrastructure resilience is of paramount importance for societies, therefore its quantification is urgently needed. A resilience assessment framework based on…

Probable maximum loss of a pipe network due to earthquakes: a case study in Iloilo city, Philippines

Samantha Louise N. Jarder, Lessandro Estelito O. Garciano, Osamu Maruyama

Buried structures like pipeline systems or water distribution networks (WDN) are vulnerable to seismic activities and the risk of damages increases when there is liquefaction…

Disaster risk areas in Brazil: outcomes from an intra-urban scale analysis

Silvia Midori Saito, Mariane Carvalho de Assis Dias, Daniela Ferreira Ribeiro, Regina Célia dos Santos Alvalá, Daiane Batista de Souza, Rodrigo Amorim Souza de Moraes Santana, Pilar Amadeu de Souza, Júlia Vicente Martins Ribeiro, Claudio Stenner

This paper aims to shed some light on the distribution of population, living in disaster risk areas in Brazil, on the intra-urban scale. The following three aspects are evaluated…