International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment: Volume 9 Issue 2

Flood risk assessment of Srinagar city in Jammu and Kashmir, India

Akhtar Alam, M. Sultan Bhat, Hakim Farooq, Bashir Ahmad, Shabir Ahmad, Ashaq H. Sheikh

Risk assessment is imperative for disaster risk reduction. The risk is rooted to various physical, social, economic, demographic and environmental factors that determine the…

Virtual training environments for major incident response planning in UK gas infrastructure

Kay Rogage

This paper aims to evaluate a virtual training environment for testing UK gas pipeline emergency response plans.

Seeking an interoperability of disaster resilience and transformative adaptation in humanitarian design

Jesse M. Keenan

This paper aims to explore the conceptual, tactical and institutional tensions between short-term and long-term engagement of humanitarian actors in the built environment, as…

Factors and actors for enhancing community flood resilience: An experience from a river-side settlement in Bangladesh

Imon Chowdhooree, Ishrat Islam

Enhancing community flood resilience is a critical aspect of flood risk management that requires a systematic process of capacity building through incorporating mitigation…

Gentrification in (re)construction: Talca’s neighbourhoods post 2010 earthquake

Jorge Inzulza Contardo, Camillo Boano, Camila Wirsching

This study aims to explore the complex relationship between post-earthquake reconstruction processes and gentrification in neighbourhoods of intermediate cities, calling on the…

Stresses over surface water sources in a human dominated environment: A case study in Hamilton canal, Sri Lanka

Chandrasekara Mudiyanselage Kanchana Nishanthi Kumari Chandrasekara, K.D.N. Weerasinghe, Sumith Pathirana, Ranjana U.K. Piyadasa

The Hamilton canal in the western province of Sri Lanka is a man-made canal situated in an area with immense anthropogenic pressures. The purpose of this study is to identify the…

Gap assessment towards strengthening early warning systems

Rishiraj Dutta, Senaka Basnayake

This paper aims to focus on the gap assessment carried out in the existing early warning systems (EWSs) in Southeast Asia as a means to address such gaps in terms of communication…

Doctoral abstract

Aaron Opdyke