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Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience for Sustainable Development

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Hazards and Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2023) | Viewed by 2724

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Stav Shapira

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School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva 8410501, Israel
Interests: disaster risk reduction; vulnerable populations; disaster resilience

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Disasters are taking a heavy toll on affected individuals, communities, and countries worldwide, but they can also offer a window of opportunity for societies to learn, transform, and become more sustainable and resilient. Conceptualizing disaster management as part of a process aiming to “build back better”, in terms of both physical and social infrastructures, can facilitate disaster risk reduction (DRR) and enhance resilience. This approach was also echoed in the UN’s “2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development”, which highlighted the need to incorporate DRR and resilience-building strategies in all sustainable development goals (SDGs). Indeed, ten SDGs (out of seventeen) have targets related to disaster risk, strongly establishing the role of DRR in achieving sustainable development.

Incorporating DRR and resilience paradigms into sustainable development has both theoretical and practical implications. This Special Issue offers an opportunity to focus on: a) efforts at the international, national, regional, and local levels to generate knowledge and enhance awareness concerning risk and resilience; b) policy and governance strategies to support risk reduction, enhance resilience, and achieve SDGs in various countries and regions. A wide range of topics will be included in this issue that are related, but not limited to, the multiple dimensions (physical and social) of DRR and resilience, and to barriers and facilitators of DRR, resilience-building, and sustainable development processes. Researchers that have investigated these issues are invited to submit reviews and descriptive or analytical studies for consideration for this Special Issue of Sustainability.

Dr. Stav Shapira
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • disaster risk reduction
  • resilience
  • build back better
  • sustainable development goals
  • social sustainability
  • sustainability policy

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Understanding the Stability of Passenger Vehicles Exposed to Water Flows through 3D CFD Modelling
by Ebrahim Hamid Hussein Al-Qadami, Mohd Adib Mohammad Razi, Wawan Septiawan Damanik, Zahiraniza Mustaffa and Eduardo Martinez-Gomariz
Sustainability 2023, 15(17), 13262; https://doi.org/10.3390/su151713262 - 4 Sep 2023
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A vehicle exposed to flooding may lose its stability and wash away resulting in potential injuries and fatalities. Traffic disruption, infrastructure damage, and economic losses are also additional effects of the washed vehicles. Therefore, understanding the responses of passenger vehicles during flood events [...] Read more.
A vehicle exposed to flooding may lose its stability and wash away resulting in potential injuries and fatalities. Traffic disruption, infrastructure damage, and economic losses are also additional effects of the washed vehicles. Therefore, understanding the responses of passenger vehicles during flood events is of the utmost importance to reduce flood risks and develop accurate safety guidelines. Previously, flooded vehicle stability was investigated experimentally, theoretically, and numerically. However, numerical investigations are insufficient, of which only a few studies have been published since 1967. Furthermore, coupled motion simulations have not been employed to investigate the hydrodynamic forces on flooded vehicles. In this paper, a numerical framework was proposed to assess the response of a full-scale medium-size passenger vehicle exposed to floodwaters through three-dimensional computational fluid dynamic modelling. The vehicle was simulated under subcritical and supercritical flows with the Froude number ranging between 0.09 and 2.46. The results showed that the vehicle experienced the floating instability mode once the flow depth reached 0.38 m, while the sliding instability mode was observed once the depth×velocity threshold function exceeded 0.36 m2/s. In terms of hydrodynamic forces, it was noticed that the drag force decreased with the increment of the Froude number and flow velocity. On the other hand, the fraction and buoyancy forces are mainly governed by the flow depth at the vehicle vicinity. The drag coefficient was noticed to be less than 1 for supercritical flows and more than 1 for subcritical flows. The numerical results obtained through the framework introduced in this study demonstrate favorable agreement with three different previously published experimental outcomes. Full article
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Study on the Factors Influencing and Mechanisms Shaping the Institutional Resilience of Mega Railway Construction Projects
by Xi Zhao, Yuming Liu, Wenchao Jiang and Dongri Wei
Sustainability 2023, 15(10), 8305; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15108305 - 19 May 2023
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With mega railway construction projects (MRCPs) facing various natural disasters and extremely difficult engineering construction tasks, there is an urgent need to improve the resilience management capability of engineering construction to cope with complex and changing internal and external risks. As a key [...] Read more.
With mega railway construction projects (MRCPs) facing various natural disasters and extremely difficult engineering construction tasks, there is an urgent need to improve the resilience management capability of engineering construction to cope with complex and changing internal and external risks. As a key element of the construction management system, the level of institutional resilience directly determines the adaptability of the construction system in the face of crisis. However, the research on the influencing factors and the formation mechanism of institutional resilience is slightly insufficient. Therefore, this paper defines the connotation of institutional resilience in MRCPs on the basis of existing research. Secondly, it codes authoritative journals and expert interview reports related to MRCPs in China by applying a rooting theory. Finally, the paper analyses the formation mechanism of institutional resilience based on an Interpretative Structural Modeling and proposes strategies to enhance it. The results show that the institutional environment is the fundamental influencing factor, institutional implementation, institutional supervision, institutional guarantee and institutional feedback are the direct influencing factors, and institutional stakeholders and institutional design are indirect influencing factors. The mechanism of interaction between the institution and the institutional environment, the mechanism of interaction between the institution and the institutional stakeholders, the mechanism of generation of institutional rules and the mechanism of operation of institutional rules work together to generate institutional resilience. This paper, as an exploratory study on institutional resilience in the field of engineering management, has sorted out the ideas for the subsequent research on institutional resilience in this field and provided the directions for project managers of MRCPs to improve their institutional systems. Full article
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