International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment: Volume 6 Issue 4

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The impact of climate change on road and building infrastructure: a four-country study

Paul Chinowsky, Amy Schweikert, Gordon Hughes, Carolyn S. Hayles, Niko Strzepek, Kenneth Strzepek, Michael Westphal

The purpose of this study is to examine the potential impact of climate change on the built environment in four Northern Asian countries. The impact on roads and buildings…

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Major city evacuation planning using simulation modeling

Adam M. Kirby, J. Eric Dietz, Eric T. Matson, Joseph F. Pekny, Cliff Wojtalewicz

This study aims to provide data on the optimal staff, materials, space and time resources required to operate a regional hub reception center, a “short-term facility with the goal…

A framework to improve the resilience of critical infrastructures

Leire Labaka, Josune Hernantes, Jose Mari Sarriegi

This study aims to present a resilience framework for critical infrastructures (CIs) taking into account internal and external stakeholders involved in a crisis situation and…

Analysis of disasters impacts and the relevant role of critical infrastructures for crisis management improvement

Ana Laugé, Josune Hernantes, Jose Mari Sarriegi

Disasters are complex phenomena, by diverse nature and whose management is complicated. An efficient analysis of potential impacts that may result as consequence of a disaster has…

Developing prescriptive environmental protection models from descriptive human accident behavior

Kenneth David David Strang

This study aims to examine human-made oil–gas disasters to illustrate how a prescriptive model could be developed. Resilience to human-made disasters, such as oil or gas spills…

Social repair and structural inequity: implications for disaster recovery practice

Omer Aijazi

This paper introduces a model of social repair to the language of disaster recovery that potentially provides a new way of conceptualizing reconstruction and recovery processes by…

Developing public private people partnership (4P) for post disaster infrastructure procurement

Junqi Zhang, Weiwu Zou, Mohan Kumaraswamy

The paper aims to integrate relevant “people” into public-private partnerships (PPP) to establish a public–private–people partnership (4P) approach that targets more sustainable…

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ISSN:

1759-5908

Online date, start – end:

2010

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editors:

  • Prof Dilanthi Amaratunga
  • Prof Richard Haigh