Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to present an integrative review of the literature to
explore the nature of the built environment discipline's potential role in the development of …

The number of natural disasters has increased sharply in the past few decades, threatening
human lives, and the built environment. Recent disaster management paradigms have …

River cities require a management approach based on resilience to floods rather than on
resistance. Resisting floods by means of levees, dams, and channelization neglects inherent …

Purpose The way that disasters are managed, or indeed mis-managed, is often represented
diagrammatically as a “disaster cycle”. The cyclical aspects of the disaster (risk) …

With the increase in occurrences of high impact disasters, the concept of risk reduction and
resilience is widely recognised. Recent disasters have highlighted the exposure of urban …

滨河城市面对水患问题需要一种基于韧性理论的管理方法, 而不是简单地修建防洪工程来抵御.
通过堤, 坝和渠化的防洪工程来抵御洪水, 忽略了人与自然互动时所产生的不确定因素 …

Initiatives to operationalize the concept of resilience in the building industry are rapidly
emerging. The concept of resilience has introduced a way to explore solutions to some …

Purpose Improving the resilience of the construction sector helps countries recover quicker
from crises and can assist with improving community resilience and recovery. This study …

Increasing levels of urbanisation and the rapid growth of modern cities require that particular
attention be paid to ensuring the safety and protection of living conditions for their …

Purpose This paper aims to explore New Zealand construction practitioners' approaches to
organisational resilience practice in built environment discipline, based on survey and …