International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment: Volume 13 Issue 5

Evaluation of societal trust on multi-hazard early warning (MHEW) mechanism: Sri Lankan context

Ishani Shehara Pitigala Liyana Arachchi, Chandana Siriwardana, Dilanthi Amaratunga, Richard Haigh

It is significant to assess the societal trust toward the new advancements in multi-hazard early warnings (MHEW) with the focus on disaster risk reduction (DRR). Based on this…

Hospital disaster resilience: development of an assessment tool using expert panel and fuzzy analytical network process

Saeed Fallah-Aliabadi, Abbas Ostadtaghizadeh, Farin Fatemi, Ali Ardalan, Esmaeil Rezaei, Mehdi Raadabadi, Ahad Heydari

Resilient hospitals have the vital role in reducing mortality, severity of injuries by providing required emergency services during accidents and disasters. This study aims to…

Post-disaster sheltering process after the 2019 floods, in Golestan province, Iran

Mahsa Shariat Alavi, Alireza Fallahi, Zoheir Mottaki, Fereshteh Aslani

As a flood-prone region in Iran, Golestan province has encountered various disasters in its history. The last one occurred in March 2019, affected Aq-Qala County and caused…

A sustainable post-disaster housing development framework for an indigenous Hao-Cha community in Taiwan: considering culture and livelihood in housing extensions

Sung Lun Tsai, Chiho Ochiai, Chuan Zhong Deng, Min Hui Tseng

Several post-disaster housing extension and modification studies have indicated that owner-driven modification behavior relates to socio-economic and livelihood factors. This…

Flood susceptibility analysis of the Panjkora Valley Northern Pakistan, using frequencyratio approach

Munazza Afreen, Fazlul Haq, Zarka Mukhtar

Floods are considered as one of the most lethal natural disasters having the potential to cause havoc to entire communities. Pakistan is the land of wide topographic and climatic…

Towards an improved understanding of participation in natural hazard early warning systems

Georgina Clegg, Richard Haigh, Dilanthi Amaratunga

The purpose of this paper is to improve the conceptual understanding of the process of participation in early warning systems (EWS) through a review of participatory EWS examples…

Simulation analysis of critical factors of casualty transportation for disaster response: a case study of Istanbul earthquake

Nadide Çağlayan, Sule Itir Satoglu

The purpose of this paper is to statistically assess the effects of the design factors including usage of data-driven decision support tool (DST), classification of patients…