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

Disasters

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-18

  Bosher, Lee ^a   Dainty, Andrew ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Construction practice; Design; Reconstruction; Resilience; Risk reduction; Stakeholders

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION; DESIGN; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; RECONSTRUCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; STAKEHOLDER;

ARTICLE; CONSTRUCTION WORK AND ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENA; DISASTER; ENGINEERING; HUMAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; STANDARD; STRUCTURE COLLAPSE;

DISASTERS; ENGINEERING; FACILITY DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; HUMANS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; STRUCTURE COLLAPSE;

EID: 78650154907     PISSN: 03613666     EISSN: 14677717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7717.2010.01189.x     Document Type: Article

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