Disaster
AR5 Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability, Glossary, published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) defines disaster as: Severe alterations in the normal functioning of a community or a society due to hazardous physical events interacting with vulnerable social conditions, leading to widespread adverse human, material, economic, or environmental effects that require immediate emergency response to satisfy critical human needs and that may require external support for recovery.’
It defines disaster management as: ‘Social processes for designing, implementing, and evaluating strategies, policies, and measures that promote and improve disaster preparedness, response, and recovery practices at different organizational and societal levels.’
Articles about disaster on Designing Buildings include:
- After Mexico - earthquakes and resilient cities.
- Avoiding disaster in existing buildings and infrastructure.
- Climate change.
- Disaster Planning.
- Disaster Planning: North Staffs.
- Disaster Planning: School Buildings.
- Earthquake Design Practice for Buildings.
- Earthquake resistant building materials.
- Earthquakes and the seismic strengthening of churches.
- Engineers and hurricanes.
- Flood.
- Future proofing construction.
- Helping communities recover from disasters and protecting them before they occur.
- How to rebuild using the debris from disasters.
- Hurricane cellar.
- Hurricane design considerations.
- Managing and Responding to Disaster.
- Natural disaster.
- Research and development in disaster response.
- Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.
- Summerland disaster.
- Ten years on – Lessons from the Flood on building resilience.
- Tropical cylcone.
- Tsunami.
Featured articles
Check out some of the best features and news from Designing Buildings as well as key stories from around the web.
New, more proportionate and targeted approach for higher-risk building assessments.
Government brings British Steel into public ownership.
UKCW Birmingham returns with bold new theme and focus.
New guidance published on competence requirements for self-certification schemes.
Construction Management, 8 July
NEETs crisis drives interest in trades, but apprenticeships barriers remain.
Passive fire protection webinar
MEP services penetration seals.
Where its at podcast (and video) - The role of the Architectural Technologist as an Expert Witness.
More than 200 remarkable buildings added to SAVE’s Buildings at Risk register.
Government scraps pre-application consultation for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects.
Historic England and infrastructure
New projects offer opportunities for the historic environment and local communities.
Construction Management, 2 July
Construction deaths halve in two years.
Green Book changes to drive investment in all parts of UK.