Latest issue of Disaster Resilience Journal published
Mon, 28 Sep 2015 09:57:00 BST
Volume 6 Issue 3 of the International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment, edited by GDRC Professors Dilanthi Amaratunga & Richard Haigh has just been published.
Please visit: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/toc/ijdrbe/6/3 to read the editorial and research papers.
Editorial written by Professors Richard Haigh & Dilanthi Amaratunga is entitled “Moving from 2015 to 2030: challenges and opportunities for higher education” is available to read at: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/full/10.1108/IJDRBE-07-2015-0034
Research papers, which are part of this issue 6.4, include:
- Residents’ perceptions of risk towards residential property in Canterbury NZ subsequent to the earthquakes - Sandy Bond
- Dichotomising compulsory land acquisition and land contamination valuations - Victor A. Akujuru , Les Ruddock
- What does insurance purchase behaviour say about risks?: A study in the Argentine context with special focus on travel insurance - Maximiliano Emanuel Korstanje , Babu P. George
- An evaluation framework for assessing resilience of post-disaster housing - Iftekhar Ahmed , Esther Ruth Charlesworth
- Vulnerability assessment and interdependency analysis of critical infrastructures for climate adaptation and flood mitigation - Rodolfo Jr. Espada , Armando Apan , Kevin McDougall
- Integration of resilience and sustainability: from theory to application - Nebil Achour , Efthimia Pantzartzis , Federica Pascale , Andrew D. F. Price
- Role of social resilience in mitigating disasters - N. Nirupama , T. Popper , A. Quirke
This issue also contains a book review: Disaster and Tragic Events: An Encyclopedia of Catastrophes in American History by Maximiliano Emanuel Korstanje
The Journal is Indexed in: British Library, Construction and Building Abstracts, ICONDA - The International Construction Database, Business Source Premier (EBSCO), ABI INFORM Global (ProQuest), Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (ProQuest), INSPEC and SCOPUS.
Coverage details of the journal is available at: http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/author_guidelines.htm?id=ijdrbe
If you have any ideas for a paper, which falls, within the scope of the journal, editors are happy to discuss the ideas further with you.
Contact details: Professor Richard Haigh e-mail; r.haigh@hud.ac.uk or Professor Dilanthi Amaratunga e-mail; d.amaratunga@hud.ac.uk,
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