International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment: Volume 12 Issue 4

Transportation network resilience against failures: GIS-based assessment of network topology role

Francesco Rouhana, Dima Jawad

This paper aims to present a novel approach for assessing the resilience of transportation road infrastructure against different failure scenarios based on the topological…

Considerations and principles for conducting a participatory capacity and vulnerability analysis (PCVA) for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation

Iftekhar Ahmed

While there are many such toolkits on community-based participatory methods, the key considerations and principles of conducting a participatory capacity and vulnerability…

The importance of natural disasters’ governance for macroeconomic performance and countries resilience

Rim Jemli

Natural disasters can undermine decades of development and threaten hundreds of lives. Previous research studies highlighted that natural disasters can cripple economic growth of…

Factors influencing disaster risk and resilience education in Asian HEIs

Charlotte Kendra Gotangco, Jean Meir Jardeleza, Crisanto Lopez, Elirozz Carlie Labaria, Julia Wickert, Fathmath Shadiya

Educational initiatives can provide the crucial foundation for capacity-building of stakeholders in the field of disaster risk management and disaster resilience. The purpose of…

Physical flood vulnerability assessment of buildings in Kota Bharu, Malaysia: an indicator-based approach

Ismaila Usman Kaoje, Muhammad Zulkarnain Abdul Rahman, Nurul Hazrina Idris, Tze Huey Tam, Mohd Radhie Mohd Sallah

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a geospatial approach for buildings flood vulnerability assessment using an indicator-based method (IBM) to support flood risk assessment…

Seismic fragility assessment of ductile reinforced concrete building frames

Nibas Apu, Ravi Sinha

Increasing awareness of the society and complying with design requirements of building codes for seismic safety of structures and inhabitants during severe earthquakes are the…

Criteria for selecting partner cities in a national-level resilience network

Elrasheid Elkhidir, Sandeeka Mannakkara, Suzanne Wilkinson

The purpose of this paper is to establish the factors affecting the selection of a suitable partner city for resilience building at the national level.