International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment: Volume 5 Issue 1
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Satisfaction level on quality of life post-earthquake rebuilding
Monica Mazza, Maria Chiara Pino, Sara Peretti, Katia Scolta, Enrico MazzarelliIn April 2009, a terrible earthquake badly damaged the city of L'Aquila. Several studies have shown that the citizens' ability to react to a stressful situation is related to the…
Improving environmental management legislation to facilitate post-disaster reconstruction
James Olabode Bamidele Rotimi, Suzanne WilkinsonThe study aims to explore improvements to environmental management legislation that will enable the implementation of post-disaster reconstruction activities after the built…
A survey on evacuation planning and its challenges for potential earthquake in Tehran
Kambod Amini Hosseini, Maziar Hosseini, Solmaz Hosseinioon, Yasamin O. Izadkhah, Tomoko Shaw , Ryoji TakahashiThe paper aims to introduce the activities carried out for preparing evacuation plans in Tehran and the challenges observed for involving local communities in earthquake risk…
Post-tsunami resettlement in Sri Lanka and India: site planning, infrastructure and services
Iftekhar Ahmed, Darryn McEvoyAfter the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, major resettlement programmes were implemented in the affected countries including Sri Lanka and India. New settlements were built from…
Building community disaster resilience through a virtual community of practice (VCOP)
Carol Ann AmaratungaThis paper aims to discuss a pilot in-progress project to promote community-based research (CBR) as a tool for disaster resilience planning in rural, remote and coastal…
Urban wetlands and disaster resilience of Colombo, Sri Lanka
Missaka Hettiarachchi, Kusum Athukorale, Suren Wijekoon, Ajith de AlwisThis paper aims to present a long-term research project to understand the nature and extent of degradation in a selected segment of the Colombo Flood Detention Area (CFDA…
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2010Copyright Holder:
Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Prof Dilanthi Amaratunga
- Prof Richard Haigh