... through preliminary understanding, data triangulation, and a reflective synthesis of the findings. Findings Amid worsening global changes like sea level rise, community-focussed, collaborative planning can help create tailored flood-resilience solutions. The research reveals that partnerships between...

...Barbara Minguez Garcia Purpose Cultural heritage is about people, their history and their identity. Protecting cultural heritage from natural hazards by connecting it with disaster risk management (DRM) directly benefits local communities. Cultural heritage also has a global dimension...

...Catherine C. Abon; Carlos Primo C. David; Guillermo Q. Tabios, III Purpose The purpose of this paper is to integrate the proactive role of communities and the use of flood modeling in the implementation of a flood early warning system. Design/methodology/approach Manual rain gauges were...

... strategies for disaster risk reduction were identified through participatory group discussions with community members, including a strengths‐weaknesses‐opportunities‐threats analysis. Findings The paper outlines how indigenous knowledge was used for disaster risk reduction and to cope with enforced...

...Akhilesh Surjan; Rajib Shaw Purpose Persuading “urban communities” and “sustaining” environmental risk reduction measures among them, always remains a challenge. Disasters are generally perceived as one‐time, long return period, high impact events. Even in the disaster struck areas, as the time...

...David M. Simpson Purpose This paper sets out to develop disaster preparedness measurement methodology using a small test case of two communities. It is aimed at furthering discussion of the issues and complexities of developing measurement of preparedness indicators for application and utilization...

... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Kobe Earthquake of 1995 left devastating damages to the physical and social environment of Japan. Over more than ten years of reconstruction process, significant lessons were learned. One of the emerging issues was the need to strengthen the community...

...S. Bernard Manyena Purpose Building disaster‐resilient communities is one of the strategies of reducing the impact of disasters in marginalised communities. In Zimbabwe, the role of Rural District Councils (RDCs) as facilitating agencies in the realisation of this agenda cannot be overemphasised...

...Rajib Shaw; Louis Lebel; Supaporn Khrutmuang; Jesse Manuta Purpose To critically examine how the post‐tsunami recovery process has affected the livelihoods of small fisher communities in southern Thailand. Design/methodology/approach This study was carried out as part of on‐going work...

...Rajib Shaw; Manu Gupta; Anshu Sharma Purpose It has been observed in a number of recent disasters, and most evidently after the South Asian tsunami, that remote, underdeveloped, and most vulnerable communities take the longest to recover, in‐spite of an abundance of resources available...

...Rajib Shaw; Rajib Shaw Purpose The purpose of the paper is to provide an overview on two specific issues of reconstruction process: environment disaster linkage, and cross‐learning among affected countries. The paper also demonstrates a unique community‐based reconstruction program in three...