International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (Elsevier)

This research aims to analyze the role of ancestral Andean practices in building community resilience in settlements exposed to volcanic risk.

This article reports on a decade of research undertaken by the author on the role of schools in disaster response and recovery across four different disaster types in five countries in the Asia-Pacific region.

The research reported in this paper outlines how contrasting and, in some cases, openly contested narratives can emerge in society around the nature and causes of the event, the impacts and needs of the affected population.

In this paper the authors use quantitative and qualitative data to investigate how traditional housing was transformed during the post-earthquake reconstruction of four historic neighborhoods in the Kathmandu Valley.

This paper aims to understand the challenges arising in individual post-disaster recovery (PDR) phases and how they contribute to overall recovery progress, using the 2016 and 2017 floods and landslides in Sri Lanka as the case study.

This study investigate cyclone-resistant features of traditional houses in Navala Village, which withstood 2016 Cyclone Winston. It shows the resilience benefits of traditional methods, materials and designs, suggesting adoption into current practices.

This paper compares economic recovery in the COVID-19 pandemic with other types of disasters, at the scale of businesses.

Here we explore “social sensing” – the systematic collection and analysis of social media data to observe real-world events – as a method to locate and characterise the impacts (social, economic and other) of the 2018 Kerala Floods.