... and climate change. Vishal Narain can be contacted at: vishalnarain@mdi.ac.in 27 05 2020 27 07 2020 27 07 2020 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Capacity Case studies Climate change Urbanization Periurban...

... communication. Findings The paper provides empirical insights about how to use social media as a crisis communication tool. The two case studies provide different ways to use social media (one-way communication tool and as a two-way information share). This empirical and theoretical information...

... to disasters. Sandra Carrasco can be contacted at: carrasco.milena.73z@st.kyoto-u.ac.jp 05 09 2015 17 05 2016 17 05 2016 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only NGO Case studies Developing country Built environment Post...

.../approach This paper analyzes facts from five case studies: Chernobyl disaster, USSR 1986; Fukushima Daiichi disaster, Japan 2011; Three Mile Island incident, USA 1979; Chalk River Accident, Canada 1952; and SL-1 Accident, USA 1961. A qualitative approach is adopted to compare and contrast the major...

... sound, especially if compared to disposing of the concrete instead of recycling it. Matti Kuittinen can be contacted at: matti.kuittinen@aalto.fi Sustainable construction Case studies Construction materials Climate change Built environment Post disaster reconstruction...

... Licensed re-use rights only Natural disasters Community-centred Disaster response Post disaster reconstruction Case studies Extreme weather events Disaster losses are on the rise, and catastrophic events are becoming more frequent, especially in the case of weather-related events...

...@jcu.edu.au 12 03 2015 18 01 2016 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Emerald Group Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Risk reduction Resilience Disaster mitigation Natural disasters Case studies Built environment Disaster risk reduction (DRR...

... environment Case studies Clash of building cultures NGOs and the role of the architect Reconstruction management This paper is based on a recent field survey of three different housing projects carried out by local non-governmental organizations (NGOs) following the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004...

... and that they have the capacity to transform externally imposed notions of appropriate housing to meet their cultural- and livelihood-specific needs. Based on a micro-level case study of a village in Gujarat, it is argued that underestimating communities’ capacity to rebuild their own houses and villages...

...Paul Barnes; Ashantha Goonetilleke; Tal Fitzpatrick; Julie Molloy Purpose – This case study aims to explore the findings and documented impacts of Volunteering Qld’s “Step Up” programme which is the largest community resilience building programme led by a non-government organisation (NGO...

... analyses the original case study fieldwork in the five divided cities to identify how the concept of “urban contract” can be used to explain the impacts of different levels of resilience to conflict or disaster. It also examines the importance of rebuilding the urban contract for community resilience...

... extension and crossing sometimes its thickness. Claudia Cennamo can be contacted at: claudia.cennamo@unina2.it © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Heritage Churches Italy Structural design Structures Retrofitting Case studies Best practice Post disaster reconstruction...

... Limited 2013 Disaster prevention Capacity Governance Case studies Coordination Disasters Philippines At the 2nd United Nations World Conference on Disaster Reduction (WCDR) in January 2005 in Kobe City, Japan, the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) 2005‐2015: Building...