International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment: Volume 9 Issue 4/5

Sustainability evaluation of post-disaster housing reconstruction after 55 years: Rudak village, Iran

Niloofar Mohtat, Akbar Haji Ibrahim Zargar

Focusing on Rudak, a village destroyed in the Buin-Zahra earthquake of 1962 in Qazvin, Iran, this paper aims to evaluate the reconstruction of this village in terms of…

Resiliency cube: A new approach for parametric analysis of earthquake resiliency in urban road networks

Amirpurya Chavoshy, Kambod Amini Hosseini, Mahmood Hosseini

This study aims to provide resiliency against earthquakes to the framework of an urban road network and to construct a comprehensive model with sufficient computational detail to…

Priority practices for addressing non-economic loss and damages caused by cyclones in Bangladesh: Case study of Koyra

Yohei Chiba, S.V.R.K. Prabhakar, Md. Atikul Islam, Md. Ali Akber

This paper aims to identify and prioritize key non-economic loss and damages (NELDs) caused by the 2009 Cyclone Aila in Khulna District of Bangladesh and to identify appropriate…

Contextualising mainstreaming of disaster resilience concepts in the construction process

Dilanthi Amaratunga, Chamindi Ishara Malalgoda, Kaushal Keraminiyage

Construction industry and the built environment professions play an important role in contributing to society’s improved resilience. It is therefore important to improve their…

Mapping built environment professionals’ educational needs to international policy frameworks for disaster risk reduction – community stakeholder perspective

Srinath Perera, Onaopepo Adeniyi, Solomon Olusola Babatunde, Kanchana Ginige

Disaster risk reduction is prominent in the international policy agenda, and the year 2015 brought together three international policy frameworks that contribute to disaster risk…

Flood risk to commercial property: Training and education needs of built environment professionals

Namrata Bhattacharya-Mis, Jessica Lamond, Burrell Montz, Heidi Kreibich, Sara Wilkinson, Faith Chan, David Proverbs

Improved management of commercial property at risk from flooding may result from well-targeted advice from built environment (BE) professionals, such as surveyors, valuers and…

Participatory action research: tools for disaster resilience education

Michelle Annette Meyer, Marccus Hendricks, Galen D. Newman, Jaimie Hicks Masterson, John T. Cooper, Garett Sansom, Nasir Gharaibeh, Jennifer Horney, Philip Berke, Shannon van Zandt, Tiffany Cousins

Participatory action research can improve scientific knowledge and community capacity to address disaster resilience and environmental justice. Evidence from the literature…

Damage functions for transport infrastructure

Nadine Habermann, Ralf Hedel

Damage functions constitute an essential part of the modelling of critical infrastructure (CI) performance under the influence of climate events. This paper aims to compile and…

Quantitative assessment of flood discharges and floodway failures through cross-cultivation of advancement in knowledge and traditional practices

Buddhi Wahalathantri, Weena Lokuge, Warna Karunasena, Sujeeva Setunge

The 2011 and 2013 Queensland, Australia flood events caused massive infrastructure damage for low-level stream crossings such as floodways and culverts in regional Queensland…