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Critical Failure Factors of Flood Early Warning and Response Systems (FEWRS): A Structured Literature Review and Interpretive Structural Modelling (ISM) Analysis (2023)
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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.

Disaster experiences, associated problems and lessons in southwestern coastal Bangladesh: exploring through participatory rural appraisal to enhance resilience (2022)
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Parvin, G., Dasgupta, R., Abedin, M. A., Sakamoto, M., Ingirige, B., Kibria, M., …Nakagawa, H. (2022). Disaster experiences, associated problems and lessons in southwestern coastal Bangladesh: exploring through participatory rural appraisal to enhance resilience. Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/23789689.2022.2138165

The southwestern coastal part of Bangladesh is highly vulnerable to different kinds of disasters due to the changing climatic conditions. With the lenses of rural communities here an approach to examine how were the different disasters experiences, w... Read More about Disaster experiences, associated problems and lessons in southwestern coastal Bangladesh: exploring through participatory rural appraisal to enhance resilience.

Advanced technologies for offering situational intelligence in flood warning and response systems : a literature review (2022)
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Samansiri, S., Fernando, T., & Ingirige, B. (2022). Advanced technologies for offering situational intelligence in flood warning and response systems : a literature review. Water, https://doi.org/10.3390/w14132091

Deaths and property damage from floods have increased drastically in the past two 9 decades due to various reasons such as increased population, unplanned development and climate 10 change. Such losses from floods can be reduced by issuing timely e... 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)
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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.

Climate financing barriers and strategies: the case of Sri Lanka (2022)
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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.

Living-transforming disaster relief shelter : a conceptual approach for sustainable post-disaster housing (2021)
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Ghomi, S., Wedawatta, G., Ginige, K., & Ingirige, B. (2021). Living-transforming disaster relief shelter : a conceptual approach for sustainable post-disaster housing. Built Environment Project and Asset Management, 11(4), 687-704. https://doi.org/10.1108/BEPAM-04-2020-0076

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the performance of post-disaster housing reconstruction projects, propose the conceptual Living-transforming disaster relief shelter (LTFDR-shelter) approach where temporary shelter is increment... Read More about Living-transforming disaster relief shelter : a conceptual approach for sustainable post-disaster housing.

The dynamics of vulnerabilities and capabilities in improving resilience within Malaysian construction supply chain (2018)
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Zainal Abidin, N., & Ingirige, B. (2018). The dynamics of vulnerabilities and capabilities in improving resilience within Malaysian construction supply chain. Construction innovation (London. Online), 18(4), 412-432. https://doi.org/10.1108/CI-09-2017-0079

Purpose: The dynamics and effects of interconnected risks among construction organisations tend to be overlooked across the Malaysian public project supply chains, making them highly vulnerable to supply chain disruptions. This study aims to investig... Read More about The dynamics of vulnerabilities and capabilities in improving resilience within Malaysian construction supply chain.

Assessing climate risks across different business sectors and industries : an investigation of methodological challenges at national scale for the UK (2018)
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Surminski, S., Di Mauro, M., Baglee, J., Connell, R., Hankinson, J., Haworth, A., …Proverbs, D. (2018). Assessing climate risks across different business sectors and industries : an investigation of methodological challenges at national scale for the UK. Philosophical Transactions A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 376(2121), #20170307. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2017.0307

Climate change poses severe risks for businesses, which companies as well as governments need to understand in order to take appropriate steps to manage those. This, however, represents a significant challenge as climate change risk assessment is its... Read More about Assessing climate risks across different business sectors and industries : an investigation of methodological challenges at national scale for the UK.

Long-term satisfaction of resettled communities : an assessment of physical performance of post-disaster housing (2018)
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Wijegunarathna, E., Wedawatta, G., Prasanna, L., & Ingirige, B. (2018). Long-term satisfaction of resettled communities : an assessment of physical performance of post-disaster housing. Procedia Engineering, 212, 1147-1154. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2018.01.148

Sri Lanka experiences regular natural hazard-related disasters: flooding, landslides, cyclones and droughts. These events cause devastating effects in terms of human casualties, disturbing settlements and damaging properties. Besides human casualties... Read More about Long-term satisfaction of resettled communities : an assessment of physical performance of post-disaster housing.

Identification of the “Pathogenic” effects of disruptions to supply chain resilience in construction (2018)
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Zainal Abidin, N., & Ingirige, B. (2018). Identification of the “Pathogenic” effects of disruptions to supply chain resilience in construction. Procedia Engineering, 212, 467-474. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2018.01.060

In today’s interconnected world, disruptions arising from one party in a supply chain network could cause disruptions to other parties in the chain. Indeed, recent evidence suggests that supply chain disruptions had caused a wide-scale impact to the... Read More about Identification of the “Pathogenic” effects of disruptions to supply chain resilience in construction.

Assembling and (Re)assembling critical infrastructure resilience in Khulna City, Bangladesh (2018)
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Ali, F., Ingirige, B., & Zainal Abidin, N. (2018). Assembling and (Re)assembling critical infrastructure resilience in Khulna City, Bangladesh. Procedia Engineering, 212, 832-839. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2018.01.107

Extreme Weather Events continue to cause shocking losses of life and long-term damage at scales, depths and complexities that elude robust and accountable calculation, expression and reparation. Cyclones and storm surges can wipe out entire towns, an... Read More about Assembling and (Re)assembling critical infrastructure resilience in Khulna City, Bangladesh.

Capacity building for disaster risk reduction (2016)
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Kulatunga, U., & Ingirige, B. (2016). Capacity building for disaster risk reduction. Built Environment Project and Asset Management, 6(4), 362-364. https://doi.org/10.1108/BEPAM-06-2016-0025

An increasing number of devastating natural disasters have occurred during recent years. Climate change is set to worsen their incidence and impacts even further making the risk of disasters a global concern. The increased extent and intensity of dis... Read More about Capacity building for disaster risk reduction.

Theorizing construction industry practice within a disaster risk reduction setting : is it a panacea or an illusion? (2016)
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Ingirige, B. (2016). Theorizing construction industry practice within a disaster risk reduction setting : is it a panacea or an illusion?. Construction Management and Economics, 34(7-8), 592-607. https://doi.org/10.1080/01446193.2016.1200735

Construction industry practice is strongly influenced by the culture surrounding its operations and, with the prevailing emphasis on achieving efficiency, there is a strong focus on outcome metrics such as profitability and employee productivity. Wit... Read More about Theorizing construction industry practice within a disaster risk reduction setting : is it a panacea or an illusion?.

A conceptual framework for understanding resilience of construction SMEs to extreme weather events (2016)
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Wedawatta, G., & Ingirige, B. (2016). A conceptual framework for understanding resilience of construction SMEs to extreme weather events. Built Environment Project and Asset Management, 6(4), 428-443. https://doi.org/10.1108/BEPAM-06-2015-0023

Purpose: Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), which form a significant portion in many economies, are some of the most vulnerable to the impact of extreme weather events (EWEs). This is of particular importance to the construction industry, as... Read More about A conceptual framework for understanding resilience of construction SMEs to extreme weather events.

Post-disaster housing reconstruction in Sri Lanka : what methodology? (2015)
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Amaratunga, N., Haigh, R., & Ingirige, B. (2015). Post-disaster housing reconstruction in Sri Lanka : what methodology?. SAGE Open, 5(3), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244015583072

Research methodology is the procedural framework within which the research is conducted. This includes the overall approach to a problem that could be put into practice in a research process, from the theoretical underpinning to the collection and an... Read More about Post-disaster housing reconstruction in Sri Lanka : what methodology?.

Putting policy initiatives into practice : adopting an “honest broker” approach to adapting small businesses against flooding (2014)
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Ingirige, B., & Wedawatta, H. (2014). Putting policy initiatives into practice : adopting an “honest broker” approach to adapting small businesses against flooding. Structural survey, 32(2), 123-139. https://doi.org/10.1108/SS-01-2013-0011

Purpose: Amidst the current economic climate, which places many constraints on expensive flood defence schemes, the policy makers tend to favour schemes that are sympathetic to the needs of small and medium -sized enterprises (SMEs) and which prom... Read More about Putting policy initiatives into practice : adopting an “honest broker” approach to adapting small businesses against flooding.

Small businesses and flood impacts: The case of the 2009 flood event in Cockermouth (2013)
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Wedawatta, H., Ingirige, B., & Proverbs, D. (2014). Small businesses and flood impacts: The case of the 2009 flood event in Cockermouth. Journal of Flood Risk Management, 7(1), 42-53. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfr3.12031

Flooding can have a devastating impact on businesses, especially on small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) who may be unprepared and vulnerable to the range of both direct and indirect impacts. SMEs may tend to focus on the direct tangible impact... Read More about Small businesses and flood impacts: The case of the 2009 flood event in Cockermouth.

Resilience and adaptation of small and medium-sized enterprises to flood risk (2012)
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Wedawatta, G., & Ingirige, B. (2012). Resilience and adaptation of small and medium-sized enterprises to flood risk. Disaster Prevention and Management, 21(4), 474-488. https://doi.org/10.1108/09653561211256170

Purpose – The UK has experienced a number of flood events in recent years, and the intensity and frequency of such events are forecast to further increase in future due to changing climatic conditions. Accordingly, enhancing the resilience of small a... Read More about Resilience and adaptation of small and medium-sized enterprises to flood risk.