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Esteban, T.A.O.E. (author), Edelenbos, Jurian (author)Policy-making bodies such as the UNISDR have frequently emphasized the role of community resilience in disaster risk management. However, this community-centered approach to enhancing a city's resilience may overlook other critical variables. Few studies have been conducted on the city's process of building urban resilience, as well as the...journal article 2023
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YUAN, BOWEN (author)The outbreak of the pandemic in 2020 took a huge toll on Wuhan. The community in metropolitan areas has played a key role in China's pandemic control as a key battleground for closed management and become the focus of society under the pandemic prevention and control. <br/>However, its exposure of weak coping capacities makes building community...master thesis 2022
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Slingerland, G. (author), Edua-Mensah, M.E.J. (author), van Gils, M.M.S. (author), Kleinhans, R.J. (author), Brazier, F.M. (author)This paper studies how residents in the neighbourhood Bospolder-Tussendijken (BoTu) have dealt with the COVID-19 restrictions. Prior to the pandemic, significant investments in community-building were made to increase resilience of individuals and communities in BoTu. This paper identifies the key assets BoTu residents had developed and actually...journal article 2022
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Banerjee, I. (author), Warnier, Martijn (author), Brazier, F.M. (author)This paper addresses the challenge of establishing a resilient disaster communication system that transitions seamlessly from a phone-based ad hoc network to any portable infrastructure and back. For this purpose, this paper presents a value-based design of an autonomous and self-organized protocol (SOS-hybrid). This design ensures seamless...journal article 2022
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Valinejad, Jaber (author), Mili, Lamine (author), van der Wal, C.N. (author)Emergency services and utilities need appropriate planning tools to analyze and improve infrastructure and community resilience to disasters. Recognized as a key metric of community resilience is the social well-being of a community during a disaster, which is made up of mental and physical social health. Other factors influencing community...journal article 2022
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Mehan, A. (author), Mostafavi, Sina (author)Community resilience entails the community’s ongoing and developing capacity to account for its vulnerabilities and function amid and recover from disturbance. A holistic and systematic approach of the community on how it uses material and energy resources or how a society educates the members’ over time is required to learn from the past and...book chapter 2022
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De Iuliis, Melissa (author), Kammouh, O. (author), Cimellaro, Gian Paolo (author)Due to the increasing frequency of natural and man-made disasters, the scientific community has paid considerable attention to the concept of resilience engineering. On the other hand, authorities and decision-makers have been focusing their efforts on developing strategies that can help increase community resilience to different types of...journal article 2022
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Harteveld, Maurice (author), Asadollahi Asl Zarkhah, S. (author)This paper focuses on public spaces for community resilience in their ‘response-related abilities’ and which can be improved. Comparative studies of communities, places, and/or disasters after the unforeseen impactful events are indicators to quantify the level of resilience. Within the broad scope of literature, in this line, 'community...journal article 2021
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Valinejad, Jaber (author), Mili, Lamine (author), van der Wal, C.N. (author), Von Spakovsky, Michael (author), Xu, Yijun (author)Power systems serve social communities that consist of residential, commercial, and industrial customers. As a result, the disaster resilience of a power system should account for social community resilience. The social behavior and psychological features of all stakeholders involved in a disaster influence the level of power system preparedness...conference paper 2021
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Harteveld, M.G.A.D. (author)This commentary aims to provide a window on the future by studying actions, taken to control the spreading of the corona virus, while obviously affecting public space over a year. What has been the effects on public space directly linked to these actions during the pandemic; what values play a role, and what can we expect for the future? We have...journal article 2021
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Kesisoglou, Iosif (author)In the midst of climate change, a global pandemic, and an increasingly complex world, urban communities are in need for novel ways to adapt to the new climatic conditions.<br/><br/>Through a vision-led iterative design process, I explored how community resilience can flourish, by focusing on human relationships. Focusing on the values of care...master thesis 2020
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Zona, Alessandro (author), Kammouh, O. (author), Cimellaro, Gian Paolo (author)Availability of resources is one of the primary criteria for communities to attain a high resilience level during disaster events. This paper introduces a new approach to evaluate resourcefulness at the community and national scales. Resourcefulness is calculated using a proposed composite resourcefulness index, which is a combination of several...journal article 2020
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Kammouh, O. (author), Nogal Macho, M. (author), Cimellaro, Gian Paolo (author), Wolfert, A.R.M. (author)The capacity of a community to react to and resist during an emergency situation is highly related to the proper functioning of its infrastructure systems. Improving the infrastructure response and recovery capacity through management and adaptation strategies can help increase community resilience. Infrastructural assets are considered outdated...conference paper 2020
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Nespeca, V. (author), Comes, M. (author), Meesters, Kenny (author), Brazier, F.M. (author)Traditionally, disaster management information systems have been designed to facilitate communication and coordination along stable hierarchical lines and roles. However, to support coordination in disaster response, disaster management information systems need to cater for the emerging roles, responsibilities and information needs of the...journal article 2020
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Mujumdar, Gayatri (author)The project aims at contributing to integrated emergency planning in hazardscapes. The research takes the case of tsunami scape of Otsuchi, a town in the Iwate prefecture of Japan. Learning from the 3/11 disaster about the dependency of decisions that affect the nature of recovery has led to the formation of a methodology and guiding principles...master thesis 2019
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Slingerland, G. (author), Lukosch, S.G. (author), Comes, M. (author), Brazier, F.M. (author)Resilient communities are an important prerequisite to reach urban resilience. In such communities, citizens need to be able to participate for improving liveability and safety of their environment. The playable city, where participation is key, provides the environment for this process to unfold. This paper researches requirements for the...conference paper 2019
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Nespeca, V. (author), Comes, M. (author), Alfonso, Leonardo (author)The introduction of new information and communication technologies enables communities to share information and self-organize in the response to disasters. Crowd-sourcing approaches enable professional authorities to capture information from the ground in real-time. However, there is a gap between the professional and community-driven response:...conference paper 2018
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Whelchel, Adam W. (author), Reguero, Borja G. (author), van Wesenbeeck, B (author), Renaud, Fabrice G. (author)By the later part of the 21st Century, our planet will be faced with compelling climatic circumstances requiring tradeoffs to maintain viable environmental conditions and standards of living. The prognosis for people near coastlines and waterways is particularly dire without decisive actions that capitalize on shared strengths such as...journal article 2018
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Fakhrurrazi, F. (author)In 26 December 2006, a magnitude 8.9R earthquake occurred in the Indian Ocean at South of Sumatra island of Indonesia. The intense earthquake lasted for several minutes, triggering a tsunami that swept most of the coastline of the Aceh province in Indonesia, as well as other countries such as India, Sri Lanka and Thailand. It’s believed to be...master thesis 2010
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Tunstall, S. (author)This study has re-analysed data from earlier UK studies rather than collecting new survey data. The results help us to further understand the impacts of flooding, residents preparedness, vulnerability and resilience related to flood events, the driving forces of human behaviour before, during, and after floods. The results also allow lessons to...report 2009