International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment: Volume 14 Issue 5

Review of Tsunami early warning system and coastal resilience with a focus on Indian Ocean

Indrajit Pal, Subhajit Ghosh, Itesh Dash, Anirban Mukhopadhyay

This paper aims to provide a general overview of the international Tsunami warning system mandated by the United Nations, particularly on cataloging past studies and a strategic…

Temporary housing site selection in Soffeh Mountain, District 5 of Isfahan, Iran

Sayed Arash Hosseini Sabzevari, Zoheir Mottaki, Atoosa Hassani, Somayeh Zandiyeh, Fereshteh Aslani

Finding an appropriate place for temporary housing after an earthquake is one of the main challenges of disaster risk management, especially in developing countries. Therefore, it…

Empirical study of housing recovery and property abandonment following valley fire in California: insights from neighborhood characteristics and building attributes

Pejman Rezakhani

This paper aims to examine how neighborhood characteristics (income, population composition) and individual building attributes (ownership) affect the recovery period of…

Post COVID-19 pandemic possible business continuity strategies for construction industry revival a preliminary study in the Malaysian construction industry

Yaser Gamil, A.H. Al-Sarafi, Taoufik Najeh

COVID-19 pandemic has unprecedentedly shattered the entire world economy and development. Without exclusion, the construction industry has undergone very extreme disruption. Many…

Temporary sheltering areas in case of earthquakes: engineering design, implementation and policy experiences. The case of Quito – Ecuador

Fabricio Yépez, Juan Pablo Villacreses

This paper aims to present implementation of temporary sheltering areas (TSAs), in case of earthquakes for Quito, as a low-cost mitigation project in developing countries. Four…

Resilience assessment of health-care facilities within urban context: learning from a non-profit hospital in Tehran, Iran

Mehrdad Rahmani, Aynaz Lotfata, Sarasadat Khoshnevis, Komar Javanmardi, Mehmet Emin Akdogan

Tehran’s health-care system is growing, yet it lacks emergency planning procedures. The premise of this study is that the urban environment around a hospital is just as robust as…