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Building up resilience of construction sector SMEs and their supply chains to extreme weather events (2010)
Journal Article
Wedawatta, G., Ingirige, B., & Amaratunga, R. (2010). Building up resilience of construction sector SMEs and their supply chains to extreme weather events. International Journal of Strategic Property Management, 14(4), 362-375. https://doi.org/10.3846/ijspm.2010.27

Wider scientific community now accept that the threat of climate change as real and thus acknowledge the importance of implementing adaptation measures in a global context. In the UK, the physical effects of climate change are likely to be directly f... Read More about Building up resilience of construction sector SMEs and their supply chains to extreme weather events.

Effects of extreme weather events on smes: a literature review and synthesis (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Wedawatta, G., Ingirige, B., & Amaratunga, R. (2010, January). Effects of extreme weather events on smes: a literature review and synthesis. Presented at 9th International Postgraduate Research Conference in the Built and Human Environment, Salford, Greater Manchester

Small and Medium-scale Enterprises (SMEs), which generate more than one half of the employment (58.9%) and turnover (51.9%), form an important sector of the UK economy. Although they are the main drivers of the UK economy, they are also said to be th... Read More about Effects of extreme weather events on smes: a literature review and synthesis.