Prof Terrence Fernando T.Fernando@salford.ac.uk
Professor
A Collaborative Multi-agency Platform for Building Resilient Communities
People Involved
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.
A systematic review to establish a definition for natural disaster preparedness (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Disaster Preparedness (DP) needs to be best viewed from a broad perspective in order to have a sound understanding
of its practices, its scope and its impact on the successful implementation of disaster management. However, the DP
concept has becom... Read More about A systematic review to establish a definition for natural disaster preparedness.
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.