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Built-in resilience through disaster risk reduction: operational issues

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posted on 2014-01-23, 11:03 authored by Lee S. Bosher
It has been argued that the broad range of people responsible for the delivery, operation and maintenance of the built environment need to become more proactively involved in making the built environment resilient to a wide range of known and unforeseen hazards and threats. Accordingly, the (actual and potential) roles of a wide range of stakeholders associated with the integration of Disaster Risk Reduction into the (re-)development of the built environment are examined. A review of literature, government data and interviews with key stakeholders in England, highlights that despite regulatory intentions to increase local resilience through the use of public and private sector stakeholders, a number of structural and operational obstacles exist. A range of strategies can be employed to overcome these obstacles: revisions to building codes, tightening planning policy, improving professional training, clarifying roles and missions, enabling complementary bottom-up and top-down approaches, and the provision of good practice guidance about the broad range of structural and non-structural risk reduction measures. Many of the operational challenges are non-structural and require a coherent, overarching strategy: changing and aligning the social understandings and practices in civil society, government and building environment stakeholders.

History

School

  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

Published in

Building Research & Information

Volume

42

Issue

2

Pages

240 - 254

Citation

BOSHER, L., 2014. Built-in resilience through disaster risk reduction: operational issues. Building Research and Information, 4 (2), pp.240-254.

Publisher

Routledge (© Taylor & Francis)

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publication date

2013-12-16

Notes

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Building Research and Information on 16th December 2013, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09613218.2014.858203

ISSN

0961-3218

eISSN

1466-4321

Language

  • en