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- Permanent Link:
- http://dpanther.fiu.edu/dpService/dpPurlService/purl/FI13042145/00001
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- Summary:
- This paper discusses the fragmented nature of the built development process, and how this impedes implementation of disaster risk reduction (DRR) within the construction industry. The authors put forth a few significant principles that can assist in transcending these obstacles, thus addressing the dearth of research on mainstreaming resilience into large-scale construction. The United Nation’s Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015 advocates mainstreaming DRR into development. One place where much leverage can be gained from investing in DRR is within the built environment. Disasters are not random occurrences, but rather the products of the interactions between the natural environment, the built environment, and communities. It is here that the authors believe that design, engineering, and construction can play a crucial role in building resilience. They advocate designing-in resilience into the planning of major construction projects. But, the construction industry is structured in a way that makes integrating DRR within its practices highly problematic. A primary factor is the project-based orientation of the industry. Most built structures tend to be assembled to unique specification, making each project different in terms of the end product and people involved. The firms and individuals that partake in the planning, designing, constructing, operating, and maintaining a particular built environment, often have never worked together prior to the project, and often never work together afterwards. This high level of fragmentation makes looking at built development as a whole and integrating DRR in a comprehensive manner throughout the process, and establishing accountability, quite difficult. The authors believe that building-in resilience within the development process requires a paradigm shift. They present seven principles that are crucial for guiding this process. They include thinking holistically, developing resilient technologies, incorporating a broad range of stakeholders in resilience efforts, capitalizing on exiting frameworks that work, using post-disaster situations as opportunities to build-in resiliency, integrating built environment and emergency management professionals into the DRM process, and mainstreaming resilience into the built environment curricula. In discussing each of these principles, emphasis is placed on built environment professionals integrating their activities and interacting with the communities where built assets reside as critical. Emphasis is placed on the relationship between people and their built environments, and a broad conception of resilience. ( English )
- Subject:
- Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience ( English )
- Citation/Reference:
- Bosher, L., Dainty, A. (2011). Disaster risk reduction and ‘built-in’ resilience: towards overarching principles for construction practice. Disasters 35 (1): 1-18.
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