Disaster Prevention and Management: Volume 18 Issue 1
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An International JournalTable of contents - Special Issue: Disaster management and the built environment
Guest Editors: Professor Dilanthi Amaratunga, Dr Richard Haigh
Attaining improved resilience to floods: a proactive multi‐stakeholder approach
Lee Bosher, Andrew Dainty, Patricia Carrillo, Jacqueline Glass, Andrew PriceThere is a need to proactively address strategic weaknesses in protecting the built environment from a range of hazards. This paper seeks to focus on the mitigation for flood…
Mainstreaming gender in disaster reduction: why and how?
Kanchana Ginige, Dilanthi Amaratunga, Richard HaighThe purpose of this paper is to highlight the importance of gender mainstreaming into disaster reduction decision making as a way of reducing disaster vulnerabilities of women, a…
Supporting urban emergency response and recovery using RFID‐based building assessment
Zeeshan Aziz, Feniosky Peña‐Mora, Albert Chen, Timothy LantzThe purpose of this paper is to focus on improving mobile computing support for professionals involved in a disaster response and recovery operation to facilitate better…
Raising preparedness by risk analysis of post‐disaster homelessness and improvement of emergency shelters
Nicole BeckerThe purpose of this paper is to contribute to the development of a winterised tent for emergency shelter use in cold climate regions. As in any risk management process the risk…
Towards a more “robust” technology? Capacity building in post‐tsunami Sri Lanka
Milinda Pathiraja, Paolo TombesiIn fast urbanizing economies such as Sri Lanka, the construction industry tends to fragment into almost separate spheres of production with little or no reciprocal connection in…
The role of knowledge management in post‐disaster housing reconstruction
Rajendram Thanurjan, L.D. Indunil P. SeneviratneA disaster is a serious disruption for the operation of a society, causing extensive life and property losses. Since construction activities are highly knowledge‐intensive…
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0965-3562Online date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Dr JC Gaillard
- Dr Emmanuel Raju