International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment: Volume 13 Issue 1

Traditional water knowledge: challenges and opportunities to build resilience to urban floods

Rumana Asad, Iftekhar Ahmed, Josephine Vaughan, Jason von Meding

Urban flooding in developing countries of the Global South is growing due to extreme rainfall and sea-level rise induced by climate change, as well as the proliferation of…

Developing physical resilience strategies in passive defense according to identification of endangered areas of urban environments (case study: Ahvaz city)

Mozhdeh Pouryarmohammadi, Hasan Ahmadi, AliAkbar Salaripour

This paper aims to focus on reducing the vulnerability of Ahvaz city against urban disasters and lowering the number of casualties and amount of financial losses using modern…

What do post-disaster reconstruction project success indicators look like? End-user’s perspectives

Shawn Hezron Charles, Alice Chang-Richards, Tak Wing Yiu

This paper aims to investigate the emergence of new success measures for buildings and infrastructure post-disaster reconstruction projects, beyond the traditional ”iron…

A comparative study of urban resilience in coping with the crisis in the metropolises of Tehran and Mashhad

Amin Nedaei, Mirali Seyednaghavi, Marzieh Firouzfar, Nahid Zamani

In recent years, cities have been facing economic, social and environmental crises that need to be prevented and dealt with. The new subject that has been brought up to improve…

Shelter management during pandemics: lessons from cascading risks of cyclones and COVID-19

Sujit Mohanty, Ambika Dabral, Ranit Chatterjee, Rajib Shaw

The concept of multi-purpose cyclone shelters has been found effective in saving various lives during past cyclones. The recent cyclone Amphan, which hit the Indian states of…

Effectiveness of investing in flood protection in metropolitan areas: lessons from 2019 Typhoon Hagibis in Japan

Mikio Ishiwatari

This study aims to demonstrate the effectiveness of investment in flood protection by analyzing the flood disaster caused by Typhoon Hagibis in Japan in October 2019. The typhoon…

Development of flood vulnerability curves for Sri Lankan hospitals

Bahirathan Koneswaran, Chandana Siriwardana, Ravindu Udayantha Jayasekara

The government-led public healthcare services in Sri Lanka became a major strength in managing the COVID-19 comparatively well. However, natural hazards are a major threat to this…

A systematic review of factors affecting post-disaster reconstruction projects resilience

Shawn Hezron Charles, Alice Yan Chang-Richards, Tak Wing Yiu

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the literature on resilience factors applied to post-disaster reconstruction projects and to develop a guiding framework to assist in…