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Disaster risk reduction and 'built-in' resilience: towards overarching principles for construction practice

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posted on 2011-02-03, 16:06 authored by Lee Bosher, Andrew Dainty
The emerging emphasis on disaster risk reduction has broadened the range of experts whose knowledge must be garnered to resolve complex socio-technical challenges. This paper examines the role and position of the construction sector for addressing these concerns. Specifically, it examines the recursive nature of practices within the built environment, which can be seen as deeply ingraining fragmented approaches to the development process. These, in turn, render the industry a difficult arena within which to enact structural and cultural change. Based on a wide body of literature on resiliency a set of overarching principles are proffered to help inform efforts to overcome some of the barriers to creating a more resilient built environment. It is argued that these principles offer a point of departure for embedding resilience considerations at both project and institutional levels, although real change would demand challenging some of the conventions that currently underpin construction development.

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  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

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  • Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC)

Citation

BOSHER, L.S. and DAINTY, A.R.J., 2011. Disaster risk reduction and 'built-in' resilience: towards overarching principles for construction practice. Disasters, 35 (1), pp. 1-18.

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell (© Overseas Development Institute / © The authors)

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publication date

2011

Notes

This article was published in the journal, Disasters: The Journal of Disaster Studies, Policy and Management [© The Author(s). Disasters © Overseas Development Institute] and the definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7717.2010.01189.x

ISSN

0361-3666;1467-7717

Language

  • en

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