Submit a Manuscript to the Journal
Environmental Hazards
For a Special Issue on
Advancing Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment: Human-Centred, Policy-Driven and Transformative Approaches under Climate Extremes
Manuscript deadline
Special Issue Editor(s)
Professor Temitope Egbelakin,
University of Newcastle, Australia
[email protected]
Dr Krisanthi Seneviratne,
Western Sydney University, Australia
[email protected]
Advancing Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment: Human-Centred, Policy-Driven and Transformative Approaches under Climate Extremes
Research on built-environment resilience has grown across engineering, climate adaptation, nature-based solutions, and social vulnerability, alongside rapid advances in digital tools. However, key gaps remain in multi hazard integration, long term evidence for nature based and digital interventions, equity focused evaluation, Global South and Indigenous perspectives, and scalable governance and financing pathways for transformative recovery.
This Special Issue brings together previously fragmented research into a cohesive, transdisciplinary agenda focused on practical impact. It advances policy-relevant, systems-level resilience by integrating multi hazard modelling, long-term evaluation of nature based and hybrid solutions, critical analysis of AI governance and equity, justice-oriented evidence from underrepresented contexts, and pathways for transformative post disaster recovery. Through diverse methods, comparative perspectives, and practitioner focused outputs, it strengthens links between theory and practice while reducing geographic and disciplinary bias.
By bringing together research from engineering, planning, environmental science, and social studies, this Special Issue aims to provide practical insights that help communities and organisations prepare for a future with more complex climate risks.
Anticipated Themes
This Special Issue explores how communities, buildings, and infrastructure can better cope with the increasing impacts of extreme weather and climate-related disasters. The Special Issue examines five areas that are essential for creating safer and more resilient places. These include:
- Understanding how combined hazards disrupt built environment.
- Using nature-based solutions to reduce risks.
- Addressing fairness and equity in how communities prepare for and recover from disasters.
- Applying new technologies such as digital twins and artificial intelligence to support planning.
- Improving long-term recovery and rebuilding after disasters.
Special Issue Guest Editors
Professor Temitope Egbelakin is a world-class researcher with expertise in disaster resilience, construction management, climate change adaptation, heritage preservation and gender and equity. She is a coordinator of CIB W120: Disasters and the Built Environment.
Dr. Krisanthi Seneviratne is a Senior Lecturer in Construction Management at Western Sydney University. She is a coordinator of CIB W120: Disasters and the Built Environment.
Submission Instructions
Authors should submit manuscripts electronically through the Environmental Hazards Submission Portal indicating that the paper is being submitted to the Special Issue titled “Advancing Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment: Human-Centred, Policy-Driven and Transformative Approaches under Climate Extremes”.
Authors must prepare their manuscripts according to the Instructions for Authors provided by Environmental Hazards. The total wordcount limit is 7,500 words.
Submitted articles must not have been previously published, nor should they be under consideration for publication anywhere else, while under review for this journal.
Following the submission and initial screening of the manuscripts, those judged suitable for the Special Issue will be sent to at least two independent referees for double blind peer review, after which submissions may be recommended for acceptance, revisions and further review, or rejection.
Note: This is an invitation to submit papers for peer review and does not imply acceptance for publication. Acceptance of submitted papers depends on the results of the refereed peer review process of the journal.