All Outputs (42)

Inter-Organisational Collaboration Structures and Features to Facilitate Stakeholder Collaboration (2024)
Journal Article
Ganeshu, P., Fernando, T., Therrien, M.-C., & Keraminiyage, K. (in press). Inter-Organisational Collaboration Structures and Features to Facilitate Stakeholder Collaboration. Administrative Sciences, 14(2), 25. https://doi.org/10.3390/admsci14020025

Although inter-organisational collaborative structures play a vital role in determining the level of collaboration among organisations, the identification of required organisational structural types and their features to facilitate fruitful collabora... Read More about Inter-Organisational Collaboration Structures and Features to Facilitate Stakeholder Collaboration.

Modelling Interrelationships of the Factors Impeding Community Engagement in Risk-Sensitive Urban Planning: Evidence from Sri Lanka (2023)
Journal Article
Geekiyanage, D., Fernando, T., & Keraminiyage, K. (2023). Modelling Interrelationships of the Factors Impeding Community Engagement in Risk-Sensitive Urban Planning: Evidence from Sri Lanka. Sustainability, 15(20), 14662. https://doi.org/10.3390/su152014662

During the last two decades, global disasters have impacted over 5.2 billion people, with economic losses exceeding USD 2.97 trillion. This underscores the critical need for inclusive risk-sensitive urban planning (RSUP) that integrates community ins... Read More about Modelling Interrelationships of the Factors Impeding Community Engagement in Risk-Sensitive Urban Planning: Evidence from Sri Lanka.

A web-based visual analytics platform to explore smart houses energy data for stakeholders: A case study of houses in the area of Manchester (2023)
Journal Article
Iram, S., Shakeel, H., Farid, H., Hill, R., & Fernando, T. (in press). A web-based visual analytics platform to explore smart houses energy data for stakeholders: A case study of houses in the area of Manchester. Energy and Buildings, 296, 113342. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2023.113342

Residential sector need quick and creative solutions since rising energy consumption poses serious risks to the economy and the environment. Information about residential houses is useful for promoting community well-being, protecti... Read More about A web-based visual analytics platform to explore smart houses energy data for stakeholders: A case study of houses in the area of Manchester.

Critical Failure Factors of Flood Early Warning and Response Systems (FEWRS): A Structured Literature Review and Interpretive Structural Modelling (ISM) Analysis (2023)
Journal Article
Samansiri, S., Fernando, T., & Ingirige, B. (2023). Critical Failure Factors of Flood Early Warning and Response Systems (FEWRS): A Structured Literature Review and Interpretive Structural Modelling (ISM) Analysis. Geosciences, 13(5), 137. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences13050137

Flood warning and response systems are essential components of risk reduction strategies with the potential to reduce loss of life and impact on personal assets. However, recent flood incidents have caused significant loss of human lives due to failu... Read More about Critical Failure Factors of Flood Early Warning and Response Systems (FEWRS): A Structured Literature Review and Interpretive Structural Modelling (ISM) Analysis.

Barriers to, and enablers for, stakeholder collaboration in risk-sensitive urban planning: a systematised literature review (2023)
Journal Article
Ganeshu, P., Fernando, T., & Keraminiyage, K. (2023). Barriers to, and enablers for, stakeholder collaboration in risk-sensitive urban planning: a systematised literature review. Sustainability, 15(5), 4600

The lack of stakeholder collaboration has been recognised as a prominent hindrance in implementing risk-sensitive urban planning for creating resilient environments for communities against climate-induced risks. This study presents the outcome of a s... Read More about Barriers to, and enablers for, stakeholder collaboration in risk-sensitive urban planning: a systematised literature review.

Measuring Environmental Resilience Using Q-Methods: A Malaysian Perspective (2022)
Journal Article
Tariq, H., Pathirage, C., Fernando, T., Sulaiman, N., Nazir, U., Abdul Latib, S. K. K., & Masram, H. (2022). Measuring Environmental Resilience Using Q-Methods: A Malaysian Perspective. Sustainability, 14(22), 14749. https://doi.org/10.3390/su142214749

Communities increasingly need tools that can help them assess the environmental risks they face to understand better their capacities in mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery. Environmental resilience (ER) is a crucial feature of community... Read More about Measuring Environmental Resilience Using Q-Methods: A Malaysian Perspective.

Advanced Technologies for Offering Situational Intelligence in Flood Warning and Response Systems: A Literature Review (2022)
Journal Article

Deaths and property damage from floods have increased drastically in the past two decades due to various reasons such as increased populations, unplanned developments, and climate change. Such losses from floods can be reduced by issuing timely early... Read More about Advanced Technologies for Offering Situational Intelligence in Flood Warning and Response Systems: A Literature Review.

Climate financing barriers and strategies: the case of Sri Lanka (2022)
Journal Article
Dasandara, M., Ingirige, B., Kulatunga, U., & Fernando, T. (2023). Climate financing barriers and strategies: the case of Sri Lanka. Journal of Financial Management of Property and Construction, 28(2), 242-259. https://doi.org/10.1108/jfmpc-12-2021-0069

Purpose:
Climate change mitigation and adaptation play an important role in overcoming the climate change challenges facing Sri Lanka today. Many initiatives have been undertaken to implement different policies and plans in this regard, which requir... Read More about Climate financing barriers and strategies: the case of Sri Lanka.

Climate financing barriers and strategies : the case of Sri Lanka (2022)
Journal Article
Dasandara, M., Ingirige, B., Kulatunga, U., & Fernando, T. (2022). Climate financing barriers and strategies : the case of Sri Lanka. Journal of Financial Management of Property and Construction, https://doi.org/10.1108/JFMPC-12-2021-0069

Purpose:
Climate change mitigation and adaptation play an important role in overcoming the climate change challenges facing Sri Lanka today. Many initiatives have been undertaken to implement different policies and plans in this regard, which requir... Read More about Climate financing barriers and strategies : the case of Sri Lanka.

MOBILISE-UTHM Resilient Tracker (RITTER) for Resilient Educational Communities in Malaysia During the COVID-19 Pandemic (2022)
Journal Article

Coronavirus disease has caused a pandemic across the globe and it is now representing a significant threat to global health. Certainly, managing COVID-19 as compared to other type of disasters comes with a lot of unique challenges to many sectors inc... Read More about MOBILISE-UTHM Resilient Tracker (RITTER) for Resilient Educational Communities in Malaysia During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Transformation towards risk-sensitive urban development : a systematic review of the issues and challenges (2021)
Journal Article

Risk-sensitive urban development is an innovative planning approach that can transform the way cities are built to face uncertainties that arise from climate-induced disaster risks. However, the potential to initiate such a transformative approach ha... Read More about Transformation towards risk-sensitive urban development : a systematic review of the issues and challenges.

Mapping participatory methods in the urban development process : a systematic review and case-based evidence analysis (2021)
Journal Article
Hemba Geekiyanage, M., Fernando, T., & Keraminiyage, K. (2021). Mapping participatory methods in the urban development process : a systematic review and case-based evidence analysis. Sustainability, 13(16), e8992. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13168992

Despite the fact that vulnerable communities are the most affected by unplanned cities, considerably less attention has been given to involving them in urban development in order to ensure equitable outcomes. In this regard, there is an urgent need f... Read More about Mapping participatory methods in the urban development process : a systematic review and case-based evidence analysis.

Challenges in multi-agency collaboration in disaster management : a Sri Lankan perspective (2021)
Journal Article

This study was aimed at investigating the current challenges prevailing in relation to multi-agency collaboration during disaster management and at the strategies that should be implemented in order to overcome such challenges. The study was based on... Read More about Challenges in multi-agency collaboration in disaster management : a Sri Lankan perspective.

Measuring community disaster resilience at local levels : an adaptable resilience framework (2021)
Journal Article

Decision makers, practitioners and community members need to assess the disaster resilience of their communities and to understand better the risks they face from natural hazards. There is a lack of consensus on what resilience means and how it can b... Read More about Measuring community disaster resilience at local levels : an adaptable resilience framework.

A review of post-study and post-task subjective questionnaires to guide assessment of system usability (2021)
Journal Article

Usability is a key consideration when developing an interactive software application because of the various outcomes it can produce. Accordingly, numerous evaluation methods have been proposed, however, a recent review of usability methods concluded... Read More about A review of post-study and post-task subjective questionnaires to guide assessment of system usability.

Impact of proactive behaviour antecedents on construction project managers’ performance (2021)
Journal Article

Purpose:
Many aspects of social behaviour are manifested in project managers in interaction with team members in the construction sector. Proactive behaviour as a social behaviour impacts on project and organizational effectiveness. This paper aims... Read More about Impact of proactive behaviour antecedents on construction project managers’ performance.

Measuring community disaster resilience using Q-methods : a physical resilience perspective (2021)
Journal Article

Purpose Decision-makers, practitioners and community members have a need to assess the disaster resilience of their communities and to understand their own capacities in disaster situations. There is a lack of consensus among researchers as to what r... Read More about Measuring community disaster resilience using Q-methods : a physical resilience perspective.

Factors influencing acceptance or rejection regarding being the host community for post-disaster resettlements in developing countries (2020)
Journal Article

Post-disaster relocations have both positive and negative impacts on host communities. Receiving the
host community’s willingness to host the new community is essential to ensure integration and the
sustainability of the new resettlement. This “wil... Read More about Factors influencing acceptance or rejection regarding being the host community for post-disaster resettlements in developing countries.

Assessing the state of the art in community engagement for participatory decision-making in disaster risk-sensitive urban development (2020)
Journal Article
Hemba Geekiyanage, M., Fernando, T., & Keraminiyage, K. (2020). Assessing the state of the art in community engagement for participatory decision-making in disaster risk-sensitive urban development. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 51, 101847. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101847

Vulnerable communities are often marginalized in the decision-making process in urban development due to barriers to community entry and challenges for community engagement. The state-of-the-art on these constraints' limits to a specific region, stat... Read More about Assessing the state of the art in community engagement for participatory decision-making in disaster risk-sensitive urban development.

A novel techno-economic multi-level optimization in home-microgrids with coalition formation capability (2020)
Journal Article
Ganjehlou, H., Niaei, H., Jafari, A., Aroko, D., Marzband, M., & Fernando, T. (2020). A novel techno-economic multi-level optimization in home-microgrids with coalition formation capability. Sustainable Cities and Society, 60, 102241. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2020.102241

In recent years, microgrids (MG's) have operated in the power systems for various reasons such as reduction of energy losses, improvement of voltage stability and grid reliability. The implementation of Home Microgrid (H-MG) has proven successful in... Read More about A novel techno-economic multi-level optimization in home-microgrids with coalition formation capability.