Proactive engagement of stakeholders in early phases of disaster risk management is a
requisite for resilient society and built environment against disasters. Recent research …

The increase of wildfire disasters globally has highlighted the need to understand and
mitigate human vulnerability to wildfire. In response, there has been a substantial uptick in …

The paper deals with the development of a general as well as integrative and holistic
framework to systematize and assess vulnerability, risk and adaptation. The framework is a …

This study empirically examines a model that describes the relationship between supply
chain resilience (SCR) and firm performance by using survey data collected from the …

An increasing number of studies have compared climate change adaptation policies within
and between different countries. In this paper we show that these comparative studies suffer …

The increased number of natural hazards due to climate variability has resulted in numerous
disasters in developing countries. In the Philippines, these are expected to be more common …

Introduction: In the past decade significant attention has been given to the development of
tools that attempt to measure the vulnerability, risk or resilience of communities to disasters …

This article presents lessons from the rich adoption literature for the nascent research on
adaptation. Individuals' adoption choices are affected by profit and risk considerations and …

Conceptual aspects related to seismic vulnerability, damage and risk evaluation are
discussed first, together with a short review of the most widely used possibilities for seismic …

Executive summary The land challenges, in the context of this report, are climate change
mitigation, adaptation, desertification, land degradation, and food security. The chapter also …