Disaster Prevention and Management: Volume 18 Issue 1

Attaining improved resilience to floods: a proactive multi‐stakeholder approach

Lee Bosher, Andrew Dainty, Patricia Carrillo, Jacqueline Glass, Andrew Price

There is a need to proactively address strategic weaknesses in protecting the built environment from a range of hazards. This paper seeks to focus on the mitigation for flood…

Mainstreaming gender in disaster reduction: why and how?

Kanchana Ginige, Dilanthi Amaratunga, Richard Haigh

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the importance of gender mainstreaming into disaster reduction decision making as a way of reducing disaster vulnerabilities of women, a…

Supporting urban emergency response and recovery using RFID‐based building assessment

Zeeshan Aziz, Feniosky Peña‐Mora, Albert Chen, Timothy Lantz

The purpose of this paper is to focus on improving mobile computing support for professionals involved in a disaster response and recovery operation to facilitate better…

Raising preparedness by risk analysis of post‐disaster homelessness and improvement of emergency shelters

Nicole Becker

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the development of a winterised tent for emergency shelter use in cold climate regions. As in any risk management process the risk…

Towards a more “robust” technology? Capacity building in post‐tsunami Sri Lanka

Milinda Pathiraja, Paolo Tombesi

In fast urbanizing economies such as Sri Lanka, the construction industry tends to fragment into almost separate spheres of production with little or no reciprocal connection in…

The role of knowledge management in post‐disaster housing reconstruction

Rajendram Thanurjan, L.D. Indunil P. Seneviratne

A disaster is a serious disruption for the operation of a society, causing extensive life and property losses. Since construction activities are highly knowledge‐intensive…

Special issue Editorial Board

Guest editorial

Dilanthi Amaratunga, Richard Haigh