School of Civil Engineering: Recent submissions
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Household Construction Knowledge Acquisition in Post-Disaster Shelter Training
Published 2018-01-01The incorporation of safer building practices into shelter after disasters continues to plague recovery efforts. While limited resources are one potential cause, evidence from case studies suggests that poor adoption of ...Open AccessArticle -
Assessing the Impact of Household Participation on Satisfaction and Safe Design in Humanitarian Shelter Projects
Published 2019-09-17Participation has long been considered important for post‐disaster recovery. Establishing what constitutes participation in post‐disaster shelter projects, however, has remained elusive, and the links between different ...Open AccessArticle -
Characterizing Post-Disaster Reconstruction Training Methods and Learning Styles
Published 2016-12-01Large disasters damage or destroy infrastructure that is then reconstructed through programmes that train community members in construction techniques that reduce future risks. Despite the number of post-disaster reconstruction ...Open AccessArticle -
Constructing Authority in Disaster Relief Coordination
Published 2017-04-01The purpose of our study is to explore the social construction of authority in disaster relief coordination. We emphasize the ways in which stakeholders draw upon various discursive resources in order to establish or ...Open AccessArticle -
Inter-Organizational Resource Coordination in Post-Disaster Infrastructure Recovery
Published 2016-10-01Despite significant advances in strengthening post-disaster recovery efforts, misaligned strategy and inefficient resource allocation are far too often the norm for infrastructure reconstruction. To examine the ...Open AccessArticle