International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment: Volume 11 Issue 1

Editorial

Chamindi Ishara Malalgoda, Emlyn Witt

Post-disaster recovery through the evolution of the lakou, a traditional settlement pattern

James Patrick Miller

Historically, post-disaster reconstruction policies and practice ignore the embedded knowledge of the affected population; the process following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti…

Social vulnerability and local level assessments: a new approach for planning

José Manuel Mendes, Alexandre Oliveira Tavares, Pedro Pinto Santos

The purpose of this paper is to present a new index of social vulnerability (SV), based on local level data [statistical blocks (SBs)]. This same methodology was applied before at…

The role of social capital in the recovery of cultural built heritage: Evidence from three heritage sites in Nepal

April Aryal, Suzanne Wilkinson

Social capitals in a community are in the form of bonding, bridging and linking through social networks. This paper aims to determine the role of social capital in the recovery…

Site selection criteria for temporary sheltering in urban environment

Katayoun Jahangiri, Hasti Borgheipour, Saeid Bahramzadeh Gendeshmin, Amirhossein Matin, Ghazaleh Monazami Tehrani

The inevitable occurrence of natural disasters and crisis arising from them causes a lot of losses globally, particularly in disaster-prone countries such as Iran. One of the main…

Residents vulnerability analysis and explanation of development-induced disasters in a Sub-Saharan African city

Olasunkanmi Habeeb Okunola

The purpose of this paper is to identify and analyze indicators for measuring residents’ level of social and physical vulnerability to human-induced disasters in disaster-prone…

Disaster risk management approaches in construction and built environment: A research collaboration networks perspective

Seyedamir Tavakoli Taba, Mohammad Mojtahedi, Sidney Newton

Currently there is no analysis of the development of disaster risk management literature in the construction and built environment context, the changes in its research paradigms…

Linking information provision to behavioural intentions: Moderating and mediating effects of message clarity and source credibility

Matthew Abunyewah, Thayaparan Gajendran, Kim Maund, Seth Asare Okyere

Disaster information is an important resource for flood preparedness, however, the transition of information provision to preparedness and consequently to damage reduction is…

A micro scale study of climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction in coastal urban strategic planning for the Jakarta

Harkunti Pertiwi Rahayu, Richard Haigh, Dilanthi Amaratunga, Benedictus Kombaitan, Devina Khoirunnisa, Vito Pradana

This paper aims to describe an in-depth study that aimed to assess and develop a strategic disaster risk reduction plan to integrate climate change adaptation countermeasures in…

Modeling of the city evacuation plan in case of earthquake with particle swarm optimization (PSO) and imperialist competition algorithm (ICA)

Morteza Asadi, Jalal Karami

The aim of this study was to determine the number of shelters, specify some optimal paths among building blocks towards shelters, and assign population to shelters.