Using Salt Lake County, UT, as a case study, this research examines pre-disaster policies focused on providing post-disaster housing for public housing residents.
In the month of August 2017, a massive landslide occurred near the village of Kotrupi. NIDM endevours to clutch the lessons of the event in order to strengthen our future strategies for landslides risks reduction and resilience.
This publication explores how the communities in East Gippsland and Wellington Shires, Australia experienced their strength and capabilities following a bushfire event that burned for 106 days before being contained.
Victorian Council of Social Service
Bushfire and Natural Hazards Cooperative Research Centre
The Institute for Sustainable Industries and Liveable Cities (Victoria University)
In this paper, the authors assess tangible and intangible disaster recovery dynamics following the 2015 Nepal earthquakes and aftershocks in order to understand household adaptive capacity and transformation. They randomly selected 400 households in four communities across two highly impacted districts for surveys and interviews at 9 months and 1.5 years afterwards and returned at 2.5 years to share and discuss results.
This report discusses the retrospective analysis of the contemporary colonial and scientific records of a major explosive eruption of the Soufrière of St Vincent from 1902 to 1903 reveals how this significant and prolonged event presented challenges to
Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research (Elsevier)
This report analyses health spending in 53 countries in the WHO European Region from 2000 to 2018 (the latest year for which internationally comparable data are available). It reviews key patterns and trends in health spending over time and across
This paper proposes a methodology based on a multi-layer Monte Carlo simulation to model a two-stage recovery process for residential buildings: functional downtime due to delay and functional downtime due to repair. The delay portion of the model was
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (Elsevier)
The paper tries to study and evaluate these factors that lead to faster resilience of Kerala’s state to model a flexible and more effective urban resilient planning approach.
The article claims that to those affected, disaster is an existential experience. For them, it is an unexpected existential ‘event’ clearly separating a ‘before’ from an ‘after’. In the academic disaster domain however the ‘disaster as event’ is being
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (Elsevier)
