...Sanjay Saifi; Ramiya M. Anandakumar Purpose In an era overshadowed by the alarming consequences of climate change and the escalating peril of recurring floods for communities worldwide, the significance of proficient disaster risk management has reached unprecedented levels. The successful...

...Hope Ameh; Jessica Lamond Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore flood-prone area residents' preferences of flood-resilient housing technologies (HTs), to understand the factors influencing their choices. Flood-resilient HTs can reduce damage and disruption at a household level...

...Nurul Zainab Binti Along; Iftekhar Ahmed; Jamie MacKee Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore multiple stakeholders managing the different type of knowledge in a flood-prone area. Different stakeholders hold different types of knowledge in their area of interest, and both knowledge...

... severe damages, especially to curative healthcare infrastructures such as hospitals. Floods have been the major contributor to the economic loss of the Sri Lankan healthcare system. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to develop a proper flood risk assessment framework for Sri Lankan hospitals...

... into floodway design procedures. Design/methodology/approach This research uses a three-dimensional finite element method to investigate numerically the different parameters, geometric configurations and loading combinations which cause floodway vulnerability during extreme flood events. The worst-case...

...Rizwan Akbar Ali; Sandeeka Mannakkara; Suzanne Wilkinson Purpose This paper aims to describe an in-depth study conducted on transition of recovery into subsequent recovery phases after the 2010 super floods in the Sindh province of Pakistan. The objectives of this research were to examine the post...

...Bingunath Ingirige; Keith Jones; Keith Jones; Helen Brydson; Fuad Ali; Justine Cooper Purpose – This paper aims to explore the preparedness of a UK Registered Social Landlord (RSL) for current and future flooding. It examines the understanding of vulnerability, resilience and adaptive capacity...

...Bingunath Ingirige; Keith Jones; Namrata Bhattacharya; Jessica Lamond; David Proverbs; Felix Hammond Purpose – The purpose of the research is to develop a conceptual framework to anticipate the vulnerability of value of commercial properties towards changing risk of flooding. The existing...

... of 25 districts island wide. Figure 1 shows the geopolitical divisions in Sri Lanka. The island is susceptible to numerous natural hazards, including floods, tsunamis, landslides, drought and cyclones. In addition, coastal erosion and deforestation evolve over time with significant and long...

...). It has been established that the impact of hydro‐meteorological disasters is much worse in urban areas. Events in the past decade have highlighted the various vulnerabilities of urban areas to climate‐related hazards. The flash flood of December 1999 in North Venezuela killed 30,000 people mostly...

... at: janakaw@pdn.ac.lk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Sri Lanka Floods Tidal waves Earthquakes The tsunami unleashed by the mega‐thrust earthquake of M_w=9.3 (Stein and Okal, 2007) in the Northern Sumatra‐Andaman subduction zone on 26 December 2004...

...Reza Valizadeh; Mahmoud Elmi Purpose A remarkable number of Iran's villages, in addition to the general earthquake hazard, are faced with other natural hazards including floods, landslides, and landslips. The village of Badleh Kuh is one example faced with a great danger of land thrust and flood...

...Aleksandra Kazmierczak; Erik Bichard Purpose The inevitability of climate change and its consequences brings on the need to find new ways of adapting to extreme events, such as floods. One immediate measure would be to make physical improvements to houses to either prevent their inundation...

... literature review and case analyses. Based on these inter‐relationships, a decision support system is developed and evaluated using a winter flood disaster event in the USA as a case study. The level of inter‐relation is chosen as a metric to measure the weights for inter‐relationships between critical...