posted on 2014-01-23, 11:03authored byLee S. Bosher
It has been argued that the broad range of people responsible for the delivery, operation and maintenance of the built environment need to become more proactively involved in making the built environment resilient to a wide range of known and unforeseen hazards and threats. Accordingly, the (actual and potential) roles of a wide range of stakeholders associated with the integration of Disaster Risk Reduction into the (re-)development of the built environment are examined. A review of literature, government data and interviews with key stakeholders in England, highlights that despite regulatory intentions to increase local resilience through the use of public and private sector stakeholders, a number of structural and operational obstacles exist. A range of strategies can be employed to overcome these obstacles: revisions to building codes, tightening planning policy, improving professional training, clarifying roles and missions, enabling complementary bottom-up and top-down approaches, and the provision of good practice guidance about the broad range of structural and non-structural risk reduction measures. Many of the operational challenges are non-structural and require a coherent, overarching strategy: changing and aligning the social understandings and practices in civil society, government and building environment stakeholders.
History
School
Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Published in
Building Research & Information
Volume
42
Issue
2
Pages
240 - 254
Citation
BOSHER, L., 2014. Built-in resilience through disaster risk reduction: operational issues. Building Research and Information, 4 (2), pp.240-254.
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Building Research and Information on 16th December 2013, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09613218.2014.858203