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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 August 2025 | Viewed by 2084

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Sandra Carrasco

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Humanitarianism and Development, Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Deakin University, Melbourne, VIC 3125, Australia
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
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Dr. Irene Perez Lopez

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School of Architecture and Built Environment, The University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW 2308, Australia
Interests: architecture design; urban design
Dr. Carlos Zeballos-Velarde

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Department of Architecture, Universidad Nacional de San Agustín, Arequipa 04000, Peru
Interests: resilience urban planning; participatory disaster risk management; GIS

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

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State Legibility and Disaster Management in Chile: Strengths, Challenges, and Lessons for Public Policy
by Katherine Campos and Magdalena Gil
Sustainability 2025, 17(9), 3917; https://doi.org/10.3390/su17093917 - 26 Apr 2025
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This article examines Chile’s post-disaster data collection and management, focusing on state legibility tools for identifying housing damage and victims’ needs. Drawing on James Scott’s theory of legibility, we explore how standardized categories are used in disaster management. Through documentary analysis and key [...] Read more.
This article examines Chile’s post-disaster data collection and management, focusing on state legibility tools for identifying housing damage and victims’ needs. Drawing on James Scott’s theory of legibility, we explore how standardized categories are used in disaster management. Through documentary analysis and key informant interviews, we assess the strengths and limitations of the forms used for allocating aid. The 2022 Viña del Mar wildland–urban interface fire serves as a case study to illustrate how classification systems determine victim status, influencing government resource allocation. We show that Chile has made significant progress in loss and needs assessment after disasters but gaps remain in data integration and intersectoral collaboration. Three main themes emerge from the analysis: actor coordination, social legitimacy, and administrative blindness. We conclude that while legibility tools facilitate state action, they also obscure the complexities of disasters. This case study provides further evidence that disparities in aid distribution hinder recovery efforts and that for many victims, disaster aid has been both insufficient and delayed. We provide recommendations to address these challenges and strengthen disaster risk management policies in Chile and other countries facing similar challenges. Full article
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Management of the Territory Restoration Process Following a Disaster: The Case of the South Moravian Region in the Czech Republic
by Vít Hromádka, Barbora Helešicová and Jana Nováková
Sustainability 2024, 16(20), 8899; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16208899 - 14 Oct 2024
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The article presents a methodology for the management of repairs to property damaged by a disaster. The article describes the procedure for the development of an organizational layout, along with planning and managing activities leading to the restoration of damaged property. Last but [...] Read more.
The article presents a methodology for the management of repairs to property damaged by a disaster. The article describes the procedure for the development of an organizational layout, along with planning and managing activities leading to the restoration of damaged property. Last but not least, the article deals with financial planning. The methodology presented was applied to a case study that was conducted in the village of Hrušky, South Moravian region, the Czech Republic, which was hit by a tornado in 2021. More than three years have passed since this tragedy, and repairs to the village’s property are still planned to continue until the middle of 2025. Qualitative approaches to data collection and evaluation were used for data collection, especially in-depth interviews related to the given issue. The mayor of the village, the village management, and representatives of construction companies were involved in the in-depth interviews. Another important source of data was the project documentation and the municipality’s accounting records. The main outputs include a list of construction works, which served as a basis for the financial damages; the municipality’s participation in state subsidy programs for the financing of the restoration; and, last but not least, a list of works that was used to create the project documentation for the reconstruction of individual buildings. Other outputs of the work include a structural plan, which has been developed for the purposes of planning and managing activities leading to the restoration of the damaged area, and a financial plan, which contains information on expenses and funding sources. The key contribution of the paper is a methodical procedure for the identification, the design, and the execution of crucial activities connected with the restoration of the territory after a disaster. The methodological procedure is designed considering the experience associated with a specific disaster, namely, a tornado in the southeastern part of the Czech Republic, which served as the basis for this case study. Full article
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