International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment: Volume 10 Issue 2/3

Indicators to assess organizational resilience – a review of empirical literature

Khalil Rahi

This paper aims to explore the empirical literature on organizational resilience. The goal consists of identifying and understanding the indicators used to evaluate organizational…

Assessing the impact of urban Syrian refugees on the urban fabric of Al Mafraq city architecturally and socially

Ahmad A. Alhusban, Safa A. Alhusban, Yamen N. Al-Betawi

The purpose of this paper is to explore the direct and indirect impacts of urban Syrian refugees on the residential urban fabric of Al Mafraq city physically and socially…

Choice of emergency shelter: valuing key attributes of emergency shelters

Ali Asgary, Nooreddin Azimi

The purpose of this study is to examine people’s preferences for some of the key attributes of emergency shelters, including type, privacy level, location, spatial arrangement and…

A framework for reconstruction of road infrastructure after a disaster

Ezri Hayat, Richard Haigh, Dilanthi Amaratunga

This paper aims to identify the main aspects requiring immediate attention in the post-disaster reconstruction of road infrastructure, thereby providing a major synthesis, which…

Emergency preparedness in the hospitality industry in Sri Lanka

Tilanka Chandrasekera, Paulette Hebert

The purpose of this study is to investigate the emergency preparedness of the hospitality industry in Sri Lanka, focusing on hotels and restaurants in the southern coastal belt.

Earthquake preparedness in higher education structures: A case study of an academic institute in Tehran, Iran

Sanaz Sohrabizadeh, Katayoun Jahangiri, Parvin Shafiei Moghaddam, Hamid Safarpour, Zahra Eskandari

Universities and higher education institutes are key pillars of all societies, as the result of their important roles in education, research and training of human resources…

What did the 2015 earthquake tell us about what the state of earthquake resilience in Kathmandu metropolitan city was?

Tej Kumar Karki

This paper asks what was the state of building-code enforcement and citizen – government collaboration in disaster preparedness when an earthquake hit Kathmandu metropolitan city…