International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment: Volume 5 Issue 1

Satisfaction level on quality of life post-earthquake rebuilding

Monica Mazza, Maria Chiara Pino, Sara Peretti, Katia Scolta, Enrico Mazzarelli

In April 2009, a terrible earthquake badly damaged the city of L'Aquila. Several studies have shown that the citizens' ability to react to a stressful situation is related to the…

Improving environmental management legislation to facilitate post-disaster reconstruction

James Olabode Bamidele Rotimi, Suzanne Wilkinson

The study aims to explore improvements to environmental management legislation that will enable the implementation of post-disaster reconstruction activities after the built…

A survey on evacuation planning and its challenges for potential earthquake in Tehran

Kambod Amini Hosseini, Maziar Hosseini, Solmaz Hosseinioon, Yasamin O. Izadkhah, Tomoko Shaw , Ryoji Takahashi

The paper aims to introduce the activities carried out for preparing evacuation plans in Tehran and the challenges observed for involving local communities in earthquake risk…

Post-tsunami resettlement in Sri Lanka and India: site planning, infrastructure and services

Iftekhar Ahmed, Darryn McEvoy

After the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, major resettlement programmes were implemented in the affected countries including Sri Lanka and India. New settlements were built from…

Building community disaster resilience through a virtual community of practice (VCOP)

Carol Ann Amaratunga

This paper aims to discuss a pilot in-progress project to promote community-based research (CBR) as a tool for disaster resilience planning in rural, remote and coastal…

Urban wetlands and disaster resilience of Colombo, Sri Lanka

Missaka Hettiarachchi, Kusum Athukorale, Suren Wijekoon, Ajith de Alwis

This paper aims to present a long-term research project to understand the nature and extent of degradation in a selected segment of the Colombo Flood Detention Area (CFDA…

The Black Death Transformed: Disease and Culture in Early Renaissance Europe

Maximiliano E. Korstanje

Thesis abstract

Philippines Resilient Cities Award 2014

2013 Awards for Excellence

Doctoral abstracts

How safe is your school?

Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines and the RAY plan

Dilanthi Amaratunga