Global Assessment on Disaster Risk Reduction
Fri, 24 Jun 2016 12:07:00 BST
Volume 7 Issue 2 of the International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment, edited by GDRC Professors Dilanthi Amaratunga and Richard Haigh has just been published. This issues comprises of selected high quality papers from the United Nations Global Assessment Report 2015 on Disaster Risk Reduction
Please visit http://www.emeraldinsight.com/toc/ijdrbe/7/2 to read the editorial and research papers.
Editorial is written by Bina Desai Rhea Katsanakis Andrew Maskrey and is entitled: “Invisible cities, visible risk”
Research papers, which are part of this issue 7.2 include:
- The urban domino effect: a conceptualization of cities’ interconnectedness of risk
- Multi-risk approach and urban resilience
- Critical infrastructure interdependence in New York City during Hurricane Sandy
- Implications of cascading effects for the Hyogo Framework
- Land use planning for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation: Operationalizing policy and legislation at local levels
- Improving construction sector resilience
- Understanding risk: what makes a risk assessment successful?
- Measuring disaster resilience in communities and households: Pragmatic tools developed in Australia
- Linking disaster risk reduction, climate change and development
Special issue offers an authoritative review of current thinking and debates that was identified based on the overall focus of the GAR Report and it presents state-of-the-art analysis of current approach and academic interest
International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment 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:
Prof Richard Haigh e-mail; r.haigh@hud.ac.uk
Prof Dilanthi Amaratunga e-mail; d.amaratunga@hud.ac.uk
