International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment: Volume 11 Issue 3

Proposed evacuation safety index (ESI) for school buildings

Jan Mae Nigos Cariño, Lessandro Estelito O. Garciano

Schools are vulnerable to strong-magnitude earthquakes. The purpose of this study is to develop a seismic evacuation safety index (ESI) to assess school’s safety as a function of…

Flood resilience in Malaysian cities: a case study of two towns in Johor state

Tej Kumar Karki

This paper has carried out a case study of two flood-prone towns in Johor state, Malaysia, to understand how resilient the residents and local authorities were in dealing with the…

Risk of natural hazards and the coping capacity of the South African community in Auckland

Osamuede Odiase, Suzanne Wilkinson, Andreas Neef

The risks of natural hazards such as flooding, earthquakes, tsunami, landslides, tornado, coastal erosion and volcano are apparent in Auckland because of its vulnerability to…

Toward sustainable development in post-flood relocation of rural settlements in Iran

Seyed Amirhossein Garakani, Azadeh Lak, Masoomeh Niyasati

Man has always faced natural hazards and thus attempted to reduce their financial and loss-of-life damages. Assuring sustainable development in the post-disaster reconstruction of…

Seismic vulnerability evaluation of educational buildings of Mymensingh city, Bangladesh using rapid visual screening and index based approach

Md. Shaharier Alam, Shamim Mahabubul Haque

Seismic vulnerability evaluation of various public structures, especially school buildings, is very crucial for designing hazard mitigation initiatives in seismic prone areas. The…

The perceptions of policymakers on earthquake mitigation: A qualitative study in an Iranian context

Samaneh Heidari, Soudabeh Vatankhah, Sogand Tourani, Mohammad Heidari

The purpose of this study identified the priorities, challenges and different aspects of the mitigation phase according to policymakers for planning and better management of…

Evaluation of gaps in early warning mechanisms and evacuation procedures for coastal communities in Sri Lanka

Chamal Perera, Darshana Jayasooriya, Gimhan Jayasiri, Chameera Randil, Chaminda Bandara, Chandana Siriwardana, Ranjith Dissanayake, Sameera Hippola, Kamani Sylva, Thushara Kamalrathne, Asela Kulatunga

Even though Sri Lanka has established Early Warning (EW) mechanisms and Evacuation Procedures (EP) for the communities affected by the coastal disasters, there are several gaps…

Developing sustainable arrangements for “proactive” disaster risk financing in Java, Indonesia

Robby Soetanto, Ferry Hermawan, Alistair Milne, Jati Utomo Dwi Hatmoko, Sholihin As'ad, Chusu He

Recent years saw a paradigm shift from ex post (reactive) to ex ante (proactive) approaches (e.g. insurance) to disaster risk financing for building resilience of communities in…