Community resilience is an important concept in disaster prevention policy, as it is
hypothesised to mitigate the impacts of 'shocks' and facilitate adaptation to reduce the …

Natural disasters do occur and have become a global problem due to increasing intensity.
Developing countries are mostly affected due to natural disasters owing to a poor …

Identifying Disaster resilience indices (DRI) for cities and communities remains a common
approach for assessing their structural ability and inherent capacity to cope with, recover …

The occurrence of natural hazards on the earth is as universal as this universe. Though
difficult to avoid or control, however, increasing resilience remains a crucial coping …

Fostering high-resolution disaster resilience assessment is essential for high-density cities
(HDCs) given their congested built environment. This study introduces and demonstrates a …

Building disaster-resilient communities require operative resilience frameworks enabling
factual decision-making and resource allocation at national and sub-national scales. While …

Quantified flood risk assessments focus on asset losses, neglecting longer-term impacts to
household welfare via income and consumption losses. The extent of welfare losses …

While social vulnerability assessments should play a crucial part in disaster management,
there is a lack of assessment tools that retain sensitivity to the situation‐specific dynamics of …

Flash flooding is the natural hazard provoking the largest number of casualties, so
adequately characterizing vulnerability is key to improve flood risk analysis and …

INFORM Risk Index is a global indicator-based disaster risk assessment tool that combines
hazards, exposure, vulnerability and lack of coping capacity indicators with the purpose to …