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Dissatisfaction after postdisaster resettlement (2022)
Book Chapter
Sridarran, P., Keraminiyage, K., & Amaratunga, D. (2022). Dissatisfaction after postdisaster resettlement. In Investing in Disaster Risk Reduction for Resilience (213-235). Elsevier Inc. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818639-8.00014-4

Abstract: Resettlement failure is a continuing concern within the field of postdisaster housing. There is a growing body of literature that recognizes dissatisfaction in many resettlement schemes around the world. However, a systematic understand... Read More about Dissatisfaction after postdisaster resettlement.

Urban innovation districts as hotspots for innovators (2021)
Book Chapter
Trillo, C. (2021). Urban innovation districts as hotspots for innovators. In I. Bernhard, U. Gråsjö, & C. Karlsson (Eds.), Unlocking regional innovation and entrepreneurship : the potential for increasing capacities (38-62). Edward Elgar Publishing

Pandemic geographies of physical geography (2021)
Book Chapter
Coen, S., Cook, S., & Hayes, S. (2021). Pandemic geographies of physical geography. In G. Andrews, V. Crooks, J. Pearce, & J. Messina (Eds.), COVID-19 and similar futures : pandemic geographies (165-172). Springer Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70179-6_21

Public health measures implemented to control COVID-19 (e.g., lock downs, social distancing) have dramatically changed the geographies of recreational physical activity, closing off traditional exercise places, and pushing people both inside homes... Read More about Pandemic geographies of physical geography.

Objectives for, of and in Strategic Environmental Assessment (2021)
Book Chapter
Hayes, S., & Fischer, T. (2021). Objectives for, of and in Strategic Environmental Assessment. In T. Fischer, & A. Gonzáles (Eds.), Handbook on Strategic Environment Assessment (24-38). Edward Elgar

This chapter explores the use of objectives as part of Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA). As suggested by the title, it does this by considering objectives in several ways. To illustrate the points made in our discussion we draw on UK practice... Read More about Objectives for, of and in Strategic Environmental Assessment.

Chapter 11 : Mobile interviews by land, air and sea (2021)
Book Chapter
Riley, M., Turner, J., Hayes, S., & Peters, K. (2021). Chapter 11 : Mobile interviews by land, air and sea. In N. von Benzon, M. Holton, C. Wilkinson, & S. Wilkinson (Eds.), Creative methods for Human Geographers (141-152). Sage Publishing

Introducing a broad range of innovative and creative qualitative methods, this accessible book shows you how to use them in research project while providing straightforward advice on how to approach every step of the process; from planning and organi... Read More about Chapter 11 : Mobile interviews by land, air and sea.

Spatial planning and sustainable cities and communities (2019)
Book Chapter
Trillo, C. (2019). Spatial planning and sustainable cities and communities. In W. Leal Filho, A. Azul, L. Brandli L., P. Özuyar, & T. Wall (Eds.), Sustainable Cities and Communities. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71061-7_72-1

Spatial planning as technical activity of supporting spatial decision-making is deeply embedded in the history of mankind. However, this specific terminology came to fore in the planning disciplinary field in the late 1980s, replacing a plethora of ter... Read More about Spatial planning and sustainable cities and communities.

Mixed income housing (MIH) (2019)
Book Chapter
Trillo, C. (2019). Mixed income housing (MIH). In W. Filho, A. Azul, L. Brandli, P. Özuyar, & T. Wall (Eds.), Sustainable Cities and Communities. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71061-7_77-1

Mixed Income Housing (MIH) is the outcome of a deliberate effort to build a mixed-income development, usually including a variety of housing typologies, sometime combined with the goal of creating a mixed-tenure development. International consensus o... Read More about Mixed income housing (MIH).

Balanced urban design process to create resilient and sustainable urban environments (2018)
Book Chapter
Dias, N., Amaratunga, D., Keraminiyage, K., & Haigh, R. (2018). Balanced urban design process to create resilient and sustainable urban environments. In P. Gardoni (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure (808-825). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315142074

Today, urban design plays a key role in the creation of sustainable urban environments in terms of the “triple bottom line,” that encompasses the three dimensions of life–economics; social and environmental sustainability. Even though urban design... Read More about Balanced urban design process to create resilient and sustainable urban environments.

Estimating embodied carbon emissions of buildings in developing countries : a case study from Sri Lanka (2018)
Book Chapter
Nawarathna, A., Alwan, Z., Fernando, N., & Gledson, B. (2018). Estimating embodied carbon emissions of buildings in developing countries : a case study from Sri Lanka. In L. Scott, & C. Gorse (Eds.), SEEDS 2018: 4th International SEEDS Conference 2018 Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design for Society (821-831). Dublin, Ireland: Dublin Institute of Technology

Even with the increasing attention on reduction of Embodied Carbon (EC) emissions in the global built environment sector, yet most of the developing countries focus only on reduction of Operational Carbon (OC) through improved operational energy per... Read More about Estimating embodied carbon emissions of buildings in developing countries : a case study from Sri Lanka.

German-speaking refugee women architects before the Second World War (2018)
Book Chapter
Poppelreuter, T. (2018). German-speaking refugee women architects before the Second World War. In H. Seražin, E. Garda, & C. Franchini (Eds.), Women's Creativity since the Modern Movement (1918-2018) : Toward a New Perception and Reception (697-705). ZRC Publishing House

In Germany and Austria women began to enter the architectural profession in the late 19th century and by the late 1930s some women architects had found working opportunities. After Hitler seized power in Germany in 1933, discrimination and anti-Semit... Read More about German-speaking refugee women architects before the Second World War.

A novel approach for establishing design criteria for refugees' shelters (2018)
Book Chapter
Abumaradan, R., & Trillo, C. (2018). A novel approach for establishing design criteria for refugees' shelters. In New Metropolitan Perspectives (422-432). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92099-3_48

There is currently growing interest amongst the international community of policy makers about finding solutions for accommodating refugees, who currently concentrate mainly in countries located in the MENA region such as Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Palestin... Read More about A novel approach for establishing design criteria for refugees' shelters.

Fuzzy reasoning approach and fuzzy analytical hierarchy process for expert judgment capture and process in risk analysis (2018)
Book Chapter
An, M., & Chen, Y. (2018). Fuzzy reasoning approach and fuzzy analytical hierarchy process for expert judgment capture and process in risk analysis. In Q. Mahboob, & E. Zio (Eds.), Handbook of RAMS in Railway Systems: Theory and Practice (441-474). Boca Raton, USA: CRC PRess (Taylor & Francis)

Many risk assessment techniques currently used in the railway industry are comparatively mature tools, which have been developed on the basis of probabilistic risk analysis (PRA), for example, fault tree analysis, event tree analysis, Monte Carlo sim... Read More about Fuzzy reasoning approach and fuzzy analytical hierarchy process for expert judgment capture and process in risk analysis.

Reterritorialising concrete as an agent of comfort (2017)
Book Chapter
Moustaka, A. (2017). Reterritorialising concrete as an agent of comfort. In C. Boundas, & V. Tentokali (Eds.), Architectural and Urban Reflections after Deleuze and Guattari. London: Rowman & Littlefield

Idealist strands of philosophical thought and phenomenology implemented into architectural theory conspicuously neglect the role of matter. They treat it as a passive and inert receptacle of a creators order, rather than an active presence. The activ... Read More about Reterritorialising concrete as an agent of comfort.

Performance gap in ‘deep’ retrofit of housing : issues at the design and construction interface (2017)
Book Chapter
Swan, W., Bayat, N., & Sherriff, G. (2017). Performance gap in ‘deep’ retrofit of housing : issues at the design and construction interface. In M. Eames, T. Dixon, M. Hunt, & S. Lannon (Eds.), Retrofitting Cities for Tomorrow's World (53-67). Oxford: Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119007241.ch4

Deep energy efficient retrofit of hard to treat (HTT) properties is emerging as a major concern in the UK. A number of studies have highlighted the difficulties of effective delivery of this type of retrofit, citing issues of lower than expected perf... Read More about Performance gap in ‘deep’ retrofit of housing : issues at the design and construction interface.

Smart specialization strategies as drivers for (smart) sustainable urban development (2016)
Book Chapter
Trillo, C. (2016). Smart specialization strategies as drivers for (smart) sustainable urban development. In M. Ergen (Ed.), Sustainable Urbanization. In-Tech. https://doi.org/10.5772/64598

The place-based approach is at the forefront of the current European cohesion policy reform. The Smart Specialization Strategy (S3) boosts economic development through research and innovation. It is built on place-based areas showing higher potential... Read More about Smart specialization strategies as drivers for (smart) sustainable urban development.

Geotechnical characterization of cost overrun drivers in highway projects (2016)
Book Chapter
Amadi, A., & Higham, A. (2016). Geotechnical characterization of cost overrun drivers in highway projects. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Second ARCOM Annual Conference 2016 (311-320). ARCOM

Infrastructure projects typically face far higher levels of cost overrun than any other form of construction or civil engineering project. An expansive range of research identifying theoretical and technical explanations for this negative trend has e... Read More about Geotechnical characterization of cost overrun drivers in highway projects.

Mobile computing applications within construction (2016)
Book Chapter
Aziz, Z., Harun, N., & Alaboud, N. (2016). Mobile computing applications within construction. In S. Perera, B. Ingirige, K. Ruikar, & E. Obonyo (Eds.), Advances in Construction ICT and e-business. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315690698

Given the fact that construction sites comprise dynamic and unstructured work environments and hazardous work settings, it necessitates the use of intelligent ways to support mobile construction workers. In recent years, there have been significant d... Read More about Mobile computing applications within construction.