International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment: Volume 4 Issue 3

Heat wave adaptations for UK dwellings and development of a retrofit toolkit

Stephen M. Porritt, Paul C. Cropper, Li Shao, Chris I. Goodier

Dwelling retrofit strategies generally concentrate on measures to reduce energy use and carbon emissions. However, climate change projections predict increases in both the…

Assessing vulnerability, resilience and adaptive capacity of a UK Social Landlord

Keith Jones, Helen Brydson, Fuad Ali, Justine Cooper

This paper aims to explore the preparedness of a UK Registered Social Landlord (RSL) for current and future flooding. It examines the understanding of vulnerability, resilience…

The awareness of two stakeholders and the resilience of their built assets to extreme weather events in England

Yamuna Kaluarachchi

The purpose this paper is to examine how aware and prepared the elderly and a number of related housing associations (HAs) are of extreme weather events and the impact on their…

Participatory project management for improved disaster resilience

Lynn Crawford, Craig Langston, Bhishna Bajracharya

Disaster response and recovery is implemented through multiple projects with traditional project management approaches criticised as too time consuming and inflexible in…

Development of conceptual framework for understanding vulnerability of commercial property values towards flooding

Namrata Bhattacharya, Jessica Lamond, David Proverbs, Felix Hammond

The purpose of the research is to develop a conceptual framework to anticipate the vulnerability of value of commercial properties towards changing risk of flooding. The existing…

Achieving success in post-disaster resettlement programmes through better coordination between spatial and socio-economic/cultural factors

Kaushal Keraminiyage, Pantip Piyatadsananon

While the top-down approach to design and implement post-disaster resettlement programmes are often influenced by spatial factors such as land availability and access to…

Improving resilience of existing infrastructure and built assets against extreme weather

Bingunath Ingirige, Keith Jones

From Shared Risk to Shared Value: The Business Case for Disaster Risk Reduction – The 2013 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction

First International Conference on Infrastructure Failure and Consequences 16-18 July 2014