Building Resilience: Sustainable Approaches in Disaster Management
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Hazards and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2025 | Viewed by 127
Special Issue Editors
Interests: community resilience; disaster management; incremental housing; post-disaster housing recovery and reconstruction; governance and city planning; informal settlements; migrants and refugees studies; women empowerment and resilience
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: architecture design; urban design
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The world has reached the halfway point of the post-2015 development agendas, which aimed to integrate global initiatives such as the Sustainable Development Goals, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, The Paris Climate Agreement, The New Urban Agenda, The Addis Ababa Action Agenda, and the Agenda for Humanity. Despite progress in planning and implementing initiatives for disaster risk reduction, the current trends of local and global hazards, along with unexpectedly frequent and intensified climatic events, have presented significant challenges in translating the global frameworks into local initiatives that are sustainable and meaningful for the most vulnerable populations.
This special issue of Sustainability seeks to bridge the gap between disaster risk reduction (DRR) and sustainability in the discourse and implementation of disaster prevention and response. Authors are invited to reconsider the impact of policies, initiatives, projects, and other efforts aimed at building resilience by focusing on their sustainability over time, their impacts on communities and stakeholders, localising the global frameworks, and identifying gaps beyond the post-2030 global agendas. Original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Sustainability and Disaster Risk Reduction nexus in theory, policy and practice
- Localising global agendas for building resilience
- Middle-term to long-term impact of DRR policies and action
- Long-impact of humanitarian aid in disaster recovery
- Disaster Governance, social, political, and economic Dimensions
- Impacts on the built environment and beyond such as livelihoods, health and education.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Sandra Carrasco
Dr. Irene Perez Lopez
Dr. Carlos Zeballos-Velarde
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- nexus SDGs and SFDRR in theory, policy and practice
- investing in disaster prevention, engagement and action
- localising global agendas for building resilience
- middle-term to long-term impact of DRR policies and action
- long-impact of humanitarian aid in disaster recovery
- disaster governance, social, political, and economic dimensions
- impacts on the built environment and beyond such as livelihoods, health and education
