Journal

GDRC’s Professor Dilanthi Amaratunga and Professor Richard Haigh are the founding Editors-in-Chief of the International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment.

This is the only journal in the field to promote research and scholarly activity that examines the role of building and construction to anticipate and respond to disasters that damage or destroy the built environment. Although the origins and causes of disasters are varied, the consequences to human society are frequently similar: extensive loss of life, particularly among vulnerable members of a community; economic losses, hindering development goals; destruction of the built and natural environment, increasing vulnerability; and, widespread disruption to local institutions and livelihoods, disempowering the local community. In particular, it aims at developing the skills and knowledge of the built environment professions and will strengthen their capacity in strategic and practical aspects of disaster prevention, mitigation, response and reconstruction to mitigate the effects of disasters nationally and internationally. The journal publishes original and refereed material that contributes to the advancement of the research and practice, and provides contributing authors with an opportunity to disseminate their research and experience to a broad audience.

The coverage of the journal includes, but is not limited to: Disaster mitigation, response and reconstruction; Disaster risk reduction; Physical, social and economic resilience in the built environment; Reconstruction and sustainable development; Participatory approaches to reconstruction; Empowerment of women and vulnerable groups; Project management for post-disaster reconstruction; Waste management; Business continuity management; Knowledge management; Governance and transparency; Corporate social responsibility; Law and regulatory frameworks; Conflict sensitive reconstruction; and, Social impact of reconstruction.

International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment is Indexed and Abstracted in:

  • Scopus
  • British Library
  • Construction and Building Abstracts
  • ICONDA - The International Construction Database
  • Business Source Premier (EBSCO)
  • ABI INFORM Global (ProQuest)
  • Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (ProQuest)
  • INSPEC

You can read the latest issue of the journal here.

Call for papers

The journal publishes original and refereed material that contributes to the advancement of research and practice. It provides contributing authors with an opportunity to disseminate their research and experience to a broad audience nationally and internationally.

Registration and access is available at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijdrbe.

To submit your paper online you must first create an author account via the link above then follow the on-screen guidance which takes you through the submission process. If you do not have an author account on the International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment then you will need to create yourself an account, even if you have an account on a different journal.

Submissions  to the International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment are made using Manuscript Central, Emerald's online submission and peer review system. Full information and guidance on using Manuscript Central is available at the Emerald Manuscript Central Support Centre: http://msc.emeraldinsight.com/. Please see the instructions on how to register.

ScholarOne Manuscripts is an intuitive and author-friendly interface for submitting articles to Emerald journals over the Internet. Online submission facilitates a fast and efficient publication service and provides the author with the ability to track their paper through the review process. 

If you have any ideas for a paper that may fall within the scope of the journal, the Editors are happy to discuss this with you.

They can be contacted at:

Professor Dilanthi Amaratunga  e-mail. d.amaratunga@hud.ac.uk
Professor Richard Haigh e-mail. r.haigh@hud.ac.uk
Global Disaster Resilience Centre University of Huddersfield, UK