International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment: Volume 14 Issue 4

Guest editorial: Reducing risk at the human-built environment-hazard nexus

Temitope Egbelakin, Jason Von Meding

Building national disaster resilience: assessment of ENSO-driven disasters in Peru

Alain Jorge Espinoza Vigil, Julian David Booker

Societies go through complex challenges in the face of the vertiginous increase in disasters, mostly produced by the effects of extreme events. The lack of capacity to deal with…

A fuzzy logic approach for measuring flood resilience at community level in Nigeria

Ezekiel Olaoluwa Olatunji, Oluseye Adewale Adebimpe, Victor Oluwasina Oladokun

Flood resilience is a critical concept in flood risk management (FRM). Meanwhile, flood resilience measurement has become vital for making the business case for investment in FRM…

Tsunami-resilient building guidelines for Sri Lankan coastal belt: a critical review and consolidation based on significant institutional perceptions

Udari Gunarathna, Chaminda Senarathna Bandara, Ranjith Dissanayake, Harsha Munasinghe

The lessons learned from the 2004 tsunami phenomenon fueled the government and other local authorities to strengthen the legitimate background to mitigate such devastation in…

Making the case for policy interventions in disaster governance and management in Australia to better support internally displaced people

Anastasia Mortimer, Temitope Egbelakin, Willy Sher

Policy is key for effective displacement governance in times of crises and in response and recovery. Therefore, this study assessed if Australian climate, disaster and emergency…

The correlation between social resilience and flooding in low-income communities: a case of Mzuzu City, Malawi

Wisdom Bwanali, Mtafu Manda

Floods are among the most frequent urban disasters in cities of the global south where capacity and resource limitations collude with rapid urbanization to force many poor people…

Standardised indicators for “resilient cities”: the folly of devising a technical solution to a political problem

Ksenia Chmutina, Gonzalo Lizarralde, Jason von Meding, Lee Bosher

Driven by the New Urban Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals, decision makers have been striving to reorientate policy debates towards the aspiration of achieving urban…

Resilient evacuation infrastructure; an assessment of resilience toward natural hazards

Azin Fathianpour, Mostafa Babaeian Jelodar, Suzanne Wilkinson, Barry Evans

As evacuation is one of the most used response actions to such disasters, it is essential to understand correctly what a resilient evacuation would mean. One critical factor in…

Evaluation of animal safe places for emergency evacuation in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia

Olabode Emmanuel Ogunmakinde, Temitope Egbelakin, Robert Henderson

This project aims to improve understanding of disaster preparedness and resilience, as well as animal recovery during a disaster event. The purpose of this study is to determine…

Inclusive and resilient shelter guide: accounting for the needs of informal settlements in Solomon Islands

Mittul Vahanvati, Darryn McEvoy, Usha Iyer-Raniga

This paper aims to highlight the localised shelter solutions to fulfil adequate and disaster resilient housing needs of urban informal settlers of Honiara, the capital city of…