International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment: Volume 4 Issue 2

Detecting and assessment of tsunami building damage using high‐resolution satellite images with GIS data

Chandana P. Dinesh, Abdul U. Bari, Ranjith P.G. Dissanayake, Mazayuki Tamura

The purpose of this paper is to present a method and results of evaluating damaged building extraction using an object recognition task in pre‐ and post‐tsunami event. The…

Centralized decision making, users' participation and satisfaction in post‐disaster reconstruction: The case of Tunisia

Dhouha Bouraoui, Gonzalo Lizarralde

The purpose of this paper is to report the results of a study of a post‐flood reconstruction project conducted in 2003 in the village of Bousalem in Tunisia, a country that is…

Post‐disaster housing and management in Malaysia: a literature review

Ruhizal Roosli, Phil O'Keefe

Malaysia is still in the process of reorganising and restructuring disaster management policy, learning from national and international experiences. Argument about the current…

Using an improved rich pictures approach to improve project situational analysis in complex aid reconstruction development projects

Derek H.T. Walker, Paul Steinfort

The purpose of this paper is to describe and explain the use (at the situational analysis project phase) of an innovation to a sensemaking and problem‐solving tool for aid relief…

A Convertible Use Rapidly Expandable model for disaster response

Elizabeth L. Walters, Tamara L. Thomas, Stephen W. Corbett, Karla Lavin Williams, Todd Williams, William A. Wittlake

The general population relies on the healthcare system for needed care during disasters. Unfortunately, the system is already operating at capacity. Healthcare facilities must…

Best practice of structural retrofit: the SS. Rosario Church in Gesualdo, Italy

Claudia Cennamo, Marco Di Fiore

The purpose of this paper is to show the importance of a total understanding of the manufacture, before approaching any structural intervention.

Critical success factors for community‐based post‐disaster housing reconstruction projects in the pre‐construction stage in Indonesia

Taufika Ophiyandri, Dilanthi Amaratunga, Chaminda Pathirage, Kaushal Keraminiyage

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the critical success factors (CSFs) of community‐based post‐disaster housing reconstruction projects (CPHRP) during the…

Disasters: A Wander down Memory Lane

Maximiliano E. Korstanje

Capacity building for post disaster waste management: construction and demolition waste

Space: the final frontier of disaster risk reduction

Helena Molin Valdes, Tricia Holly Purcell

Eighth Asia-Pacific Conference on Wind Engineering,Chennai, India, 10-14 December 2013

Climate change making extreme events worse in Australia

Richard Haigh, Dilanthi Amaratunga

Thesis title: Managing stakeholder needs and expectations in a post-disaster housing reconstruction scenario

Dealing with Disasters International Conference (DwD 2013) together with the 4th Conference of the International Society for Integrated Disaster Risk Management (IDRiM 2013)