International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment: Volume 2 Issue 1

Damage mitigation for school buildings in seismically vulnerable regions

H. Kit Miyamoto, Amir S.J. Gilani, Akira Wada

School buildings have suffered disproportionate damage during past and recent earthquakes. For example, during the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, many school buildings collapsed…

Developing Rwanda's schools infrastructure standards and guidelines

Seki Hirano, Eudes Kayumba, Annika Grafweg, Ilan Kelman

The purpose of this paper is to share the experience of those directly involved in drafting the new national school infrastructure standards and guidelines for Rwanda.

Accessing emergency rest centres in the UK – lessons learnt

Joe Kipling, Rita Newton, Marcus Ormerod

The purpose of this paper is to examine access for disabled people to emergency rest centres (ERCs) provision in the UK. ERCs are premises used for the temporary accommodation of…

Swine flu in Buenos Aires: beyond the principle of resilience

Maximiliano E. Korstanje

Throughout April/May of 2009 a new type of virus surfaced in Mexico and the USA, denominated H1N1 or swine flu, that has been immediately disseminated worldwide. Even though the…

Reconstruction projects by using core housing method in Iran: Case study: Gilan Province experience

Mahmood Fayazi

The purpose of this paper is to compare rural houses reconstructed by core housing method after the Manjil earthquake in 1990 and traditional housing. Also, other factors such as…

Glory, Fear and Vanity: The Multifaceted Face of Hobbesian Citizen

Maximiliano E. Korstanje

International Conference on Building Resilience

The contrasting fortunes of Christchurch and Port-au-Prince

Richard Haigh, Dilanthi Amaratunga

Lessons from Indian Ocean tsunami disaster still to be learnt

Martin Mulligan, Yaso Nadarajah

A new company descriptor takes us into a new era

Rebecca Marsh