Construction Management and Disaster Risk Management

Dear Colleagues, 

The frequency, magnitude, and severity of natural and human-made disasters has steadily increased with substantial immediate and long-term impacts on communities, economies, and built environments. Hundreds of thousands of fatalities and billions of dollars in economic damage highlight the importance of studies in the field of disaster risk management (DRM) to reduce the negative impacts of disasters. Although disaster risk management plans and strategies have evolved in recent years, the development of disaster risk management literature in the construction and built environment context has not been sufficiently explored.

To this end, we invite researchers from a wide range of field of research to submit their original studies to this Special Issue to address this gap. This line of research is scarce and needs to be conducted in responding to new emerging challenges such as pandemics, floods, earthquakes, and storms.  The publications can include but are not limited to theoretical and applied research investigating the following topics: 

• Disaster recovery project management; 
• Project management methodology for post-disaster reconstruction; 
• Construction waste management in disasters; 
• Disaster response strategies in the built environment; 
• Disaster-resilient built environment; 
• Bridging gap between project management knowledge areas and disaster risk management (DRM) phases; 
• Different strategies and plan for mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery; 
• Construction management in response to disasters; 
• Construction management and mitigation activities; 
• Resilience against disasters; 
• Mathematical and simulation modeling;  
• Exact and approximate optimization techniques; 
• Artificial intelligence in managing challenges;
• Post-disaster reconstruction supply chain. 

Dr. Maziar Yazdani
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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