Performance and Retrofitting of Unreinforced Masonry Buildings against Natural Disasters – A Review Study

Retrofitting and rehabilitation of vernacular housing in flood prone areas in Sri Lanka

“…Developed as vernacular responses to a wide variety of environmental, geological and cultural factors, URM requires relatively low skill levels, can be constructed with a range of locally available materials, whilst offering comparatively good durability and at relatively low cost. Approximately, three-quarters of URM structures around the world can be classified as non-engineered or vernacular [Mendis et al, 2014]. In the face of climate change there is growing need to retrofit many such masonry structures to improve their resilience to loading from extreme weather events [Papanicolaou, et al, 2011].…”

Water Supply Needs Analysis for the Remote Area of Sumba Island: a Resilience Strategy of Drought Disaster Risk Reduction

“…Several studies reported strategies in disaster risk reduction, especially in resilience and adaptation in various disasters, methods, actions, etc. [2,[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23].…”

The Effectiveness of Mobile Application of Earthquake and Tsunami Early Warning System in Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction

“…Community based DRR has emphasized the participatory to get involved in the process and goal. There were many studies investigated about how to develop DDR by policy, strategy, innovations as well as other actions [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][21][22][23]. Several EWS [14][15][16][17][18] have developed to cope with earthquake and tsunami events, saving live and reducing the cost of devastated infrastructures, but there is little availability for EWS that is very user-friendly, easy to access, and have local information and content.…”