... in assessing urban road network vulnerabilities and evacuation strategies under heterogeneous traffic conditions. It provides insights into effective evacuation planning and highlights the benefits of combining contraflow and staging strategies. Urban flooding damages essential infrastructure such as road...

...Pratima Dev Purpose The purpose of this study is to address role of women in reducing vulnerabilities induced by waterlogging in the study area. The study also aims to identify the women’s role in disasters preparedness and disaster risk reduction. Design/methodology/approach The study...

...-use rights only Vulnerability Disaster risk reduction Coastal communities Teaching-learning Historical evolution of disaster risk University extension The DPSIR framework is a tool developed for the adaptive management of social-environmental systems (Gari et al., 2015...

... and livestock, climate analysis including projected changes, socioeconomic analysis, people’s experience of climate variability and their current coping strategies and resilience (vulnerability) analysis of communities and various livelihood groups. Research limitations/implications The study was based...

.... Design/methodology/approach Disaster risk assessment generally considers the impact and vulnerability of a single hazard to the affected location/object without considering the combination of multiple hazards occurring concurrently or consecutively. However, disasters are often closely related...

... of WASH development strategies. To assess the adaptive capacities of urban poor communities, a framework in the form of a vulnerability matrix has been used consisting of four key parameters – tenure, basic services, mobilization and partnership and disaster management capacities. The matrix implicitly...

...–impact–response (DPSIR) framework, which helps to determine the strategies for reducing flood vulnerability in response to drivers, pressures, states and impacts. A secondary survey was conducted to understand the DPSIR. Findings The key drivers are identified as the population growth, land-use...

...Tadashi Nakasu; Ruttiya Bula-Or; Sutee Anantsuksomsri; Sutpratana Duangkaew; Kullachart Prathumchai; Korrakot Positlimpakul; Akiyuki Kawasaki Purpose The purpose of this paper is to measure the capacities and identify the vulnerabilities of the communities to contribute to their flood disaster...

... assessment is proposed based upon the formalization of risk as a function of hazard, vulnerability and exposure, taking into account the values of cultural heritage assets. Findings This work provides a contribution to the body of knowledge in the Italian context of disaster risk mitigation on World...

... re-use rights only Resilience Vulnerability Geographic Information System (GIS) Graph theory Network failures Urban network analysis Civil infrastructure systems such as transportation networks, power gridlines, water and wastewater networks, telecommunication services are vital...

...Clarke Shupe-Diggs; Stephen Kofi Diko; Charles A. Santo Purpose Vulnerability studies are commonly used to inform planning, as cities and regions seek to build resilience to environmental hazards. In Shelby County, Tennessee, socioeconomic census tract data were mapped to identify the socially...

... are estimated. Originality/value A new cost-based resilience index is introduced and alternate approaches for expressing the restoration strategies are examined and assessed. The results facilitate owners to enhance cost-based resilience management toward more resilient infrastructure. The vulnerability...

.... vulnerability assessment). This study aims to assess the outcomes of relocating villages after the 2005 flood in the east of Golestan Province in Iran through sustainable development. Design/methodology/approach This study is an applied research combining qualitative content analysis and quantitative cross...

...Dicky Hanggara; Anil Christopher Wijeyewickrema Purpose This paper aims to evaluate the vulnerability of typical low-rise reinforced concrete (RC) buildings located in Indonesia subjected to tsunami loading. Design/methodology/approach The vulnerability of typical three-story RC buildings...

... human and institutional experiences in urban flooding. Social implications Being resilient to all these small but important flood concerns has huge potential to reduce vulnerability and disaster risks and protect the lives and properties of flood affected urban residents. Originality/value...

...Olasunkanmi Habeeb Okunola Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify and analyze indicators for measuring residents’ level of social and physical vulnerability to human-induced disasters in disaster-prone communities of Lagos, Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach The study adopted...

... at: mo.hamza@risk.lth.se 01 07 2019 06 09 2019 27 09 2019 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2019 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Early warning Risk analysis Vulnerability Risk perception Tsunami Risk reduction Natural and technological hazards...

... and integrated framework for earthquake preparedness was investigated. Field visits were undertaken in Dhaka, Bangladesh, for reconnaissance. Bangladesh is considered among the most disaster-prone countries in the world, especially in terms of urban structure vulnerability. Dhaka was chosen as a study area...

... and vulnerability that deal with how many historic buildings there are in Metro Manila, how they are classified and how susceptible these buildings are to damage because of a certain amount of ground motion. Design/methodology/approach Inventories for exposure were conducted according to structural material...

... their most pressing needs. Assessing populations using psychometric tools is also a useful proxy measure of community resilience (or vulnerability) before or after a disaster. The objective of this research is to further demonstrate the operational viability of using a psychometric assessment approach...