BIOGRAPHY:

Prof. Guttila Jayasinghe is a Professor in agriculture and environmental engineering and the current Head of Agricultural Engineering and Environmental Technology, University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka. His expertise lies in water resource management and environmental modelling, with a focus on green models that address microclimatic changes in the urban areas of Sri Lanka using ENVI-met software. He also has experience of using downscaled climate variability data such as rainfall and temperature levels, for sugarcane and corn cultivations, and predicting future yields using crop models and hydrological models. Prof. Jayasinghe has also looked extensively into food security and mainstreaming measures into enhancing agro-ecosystem services. He currently coordinates 2 EU (Erasmus) funded projects and is a key partner in another European funded project. He has published and presented in over 100 journals and conferences both nationally and internationally.

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10:00 AM – 10:05 AM: Event open

10:05 AM – 10:45 AM: Event start

10:45 AM – 11:15 AM: Q&A

11:15 AM – 11:15 AM: Event close

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Some current knowledge gaps in post-disaster recovery that need further research include the following:

• Long-term sustainability: Most post-disaster recovery efforts focus on the immediate response and short-term recovery of affected communities. There is a need for more research to understand the long-term sustainability of these efforts and the factors that influence their success.
• Integration of sustainable development principles: Despite increasing recognition of the importance of sustainable development in post-disaster recovery, there is still a gap in understanding how to effectively integrate sustainable development principles into recovery efforts.
• Community participation and engagement: While there is a growing emphasis on the importance of community participation and engagement in post-disaster recovery efforts, there is still a need for more research on how to equitably involve communities in the recovery process.
• Social and cultural dimensions: Post-disaster recovery efforts are often focused on physical infrastructure and economic recovery, but there is a need for more research on the social and cultural dimensions of recovery. This includes understanding the impact of disasters on social structures and cultural practices, and how to integrate these dimensions into recovery efforts effectively.
• Climate change and disaster risk reduction: With the increasing frequency and severity of disasters, there is a need to understand the linkages between climate change and disaster risk reduction, and how to integrate these considerations into post-disaster recovery efforts.

This Special Issue aims to advance the knowledge and understanding of the sustainability of post-disaster recovery efforts. The scope of this Special Issue is two-fold: one is to explore the opportunities and challenges associated with post-disaster recovery, with a particular focus on sustainability, community resilience, and environmental management; and the other one is to provide insights into innovative solutions that can enhance the sustainability of post-disaster recovery efforts.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

• post-disaster reconstruction;
• innovative approaches to post-disaster recovery;
• inclusive and risk-sensitive development;
• disaster risk reduction strategies;
• community resilience;
• environmental management;
• policy and governance;
• social and economic impacts of disasters.

We welcome contributions from local, regional, or global perspectives that address these themes and contribute to the advancement of knowledge in this important field.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Kaushal Keraminiyage
Prof. Dr. Terrence Fernando
Guest Editors

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OVERVIEW

Bangladesh is a densely populated country with a high dependence on agriculture. The country is significantly vulnerable to climate change impacts and many parts of the country are affected thus impacting upon the large number of people engaged in agriculture.

Some of the recent climate change impacts facing Bangladesh are declining rainfall, prolonged heatwaves and the sea level rising. Some areas in the country face droughts and extensive water scarcity and salinity problems. The existing groundwater-dependent surface irrigation systems are not sustainable in the drought and salinity prone areas. The western parts and drought-prone areas of the country will be at greater risk from droughts because the mean temperature is projected to rise by 1.0 – 1.4°C during 2046–2065. The variation in rainfall patterns due to the negative impact of climate change may also increase the frequency of droughts up to 50 – 70% in the eastern part of the country. Hence this is an evolving emergency in the country due to the significant impact on food production.

The presentation will highlight how a proposed irrigation solution will enable them to achieve local level adaptations using infrastructure and solar power and also how they intend to minimize water loss as well as how the initiative will contribute to energy savings. Further, the presentation will touch upon how they engage with small local agriculture-based community groups through co-creation and co-management to make the approach more sustainable. The active participation of the local communities in the drought and saline prone areas helps not only to increase agricultural productivity but also to ensure that they are in line with meeting some of the global challenges such as food security in the country.

SPEAKER

Prof. Md. Anwarul Abedin is a Professor of agricultural science and environmental management. He has a PhD from Kyoto University in Japan. He has undertaken extensive research into water resource management, water quality assessment, risk assessment and community mapping, resilience indexing, community based CCA adaptation and DRR issues, climate smart coastal agriculture and food security, climate change and agricultural vulnerability assessment soil health issues.

He has over 18 years’ experience in teaching and research in the field of agriculture and environmental science. He played a leading role in the preparation of a National Science and Technology Plan for DRR and co-led a policy review on Climate Change Education (CCE) and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in Bangladesh supported by UNESCO, Paris. He has also been a Consultant for JICA on ICT and flash flooding and training workers. He was also part of the group that prepared the National Watershed Policy Formulation for the Government of Bangladesh supported by IUCN and FAO.

AGENDA

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10: 00 am: Event open

10.05 am: Event start

10.45 am: Q & A

11.15 am: Close

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OVERVIEW

The goal of the research examines what is known about science for urban policy according to scientific literature. Science for urban policy is the use of scientific evidence and approaches by city/municipal administrations to guide policy-making and decision-making. Large and medium-sized cities and cities with populations larger than 30,000 people were included.

The objectives of conducting a scoping review were to identify the existing research on urban science for policy, specifically the context for its emergence, the actors involved, the structures and mechanisms used to strengthen links between researchers and decision-makers, its challenges, and results. The seminar will present the results of this scoping review.

SPEAKER

Marie-Chris­tine Ther­rien is a Man­age­ment Pro­fes­sor at the École nationale d’administration publique, and Direc­tor of Cité-ID Liv­ingLab Urban Resilience Gov­er­nance. Her research explores issues of net­work coor­di­na­tion, organ­i­sa­tion­al fail­ure, knowl­edge trans­fer, resilience in organ­i­sa­tions, and cri­sis man­age­ment.

Over the years, she has men­tored and super­vised over 20 grad­u­ate stu­dents. Out­side of her aca­d­e­m­ic research, Prof. Ther­rien has worked in part­ner­ship with sev­er­al pub­lic and pri­vate organ­i­sa­tions, such as the Mon­tréal Cen­ter of Resilience, Sci­ence Appli­ca­tion Inter­na­tion­al Cor­po­ra­tion, the Que­bec gov­ern­ment, and the Cana­di­an Red Cross. With­in these expe­ri­ences, she suc­cess­ful­ly assist­ed the City of Mon­tréal in join­ing the Rock­e­feller Foundation’s 100 resilient cities pro­gramme.

She has pub­lished arti­cles in numer­ous jour­nals, such as the Jour­nal of Con­tin­gen­cies and Cri­sis Man­age­ment, Resilience: Inter­na­tion­al Poli­cies, Prac­tices and Dis­cours­es, Inter­na­tion­al Jour­nal of Risk Assess­ment and Man­age­ment, etc. She is the pri­ma­ry author of more than 20 papers and book chap­ters, as well as the edi­tor-in-chief for Inter­na­tion­al Jour­nal of Emer­gency Management.

AGENDA

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12: 30 pm: Event open

12.35 pm: Event start

1.35 pm: Q & A

2.00 pm: Close

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If you couldn’t make the event or would like to watch it again, you can find the recording here.

The Seminar was attended by a diverse group of students and professionals from Malaysia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the UK. Thanks, Dr Gimhan Godawatte, Assistant Professor in Quantity Surveying at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh who shared his experience on using Systems Thinking and System Dynamics in postgraduate research.

The session covered: using SD/ST as a research framework for complex problems, stages of the modelling process, data collection techniques for SD/ST, and analysis of data and how qualitative and quantitative data are used in SD/ST.

The presentation was followed by a Q&A session where participants asked questions about using the approach in their research.

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Married with concepts such as “build back better”, at least on paper, planned resettlements can be a blessing for some communities. Less risk exposure, enhanced level of resilience, better living conditions are some of the benefits that resettled communities are often promised, and also best of the times, the policymakers do genuinely attempt to deliver these when planning resettlements. However, is this a true reflection of the ground reality of the “success” of resettled communities?

Many studies on the subject suggest that the “success” of these resettlements, at least from the perspective of the affected communities, is often less than satisfactory. This is often attributed to the complex issue of managing community expectations, and one of the toolsets which have been used traditionally to overcome this issue is the process of “community engagement”. However, are we using this toolset appropriately? Is it delivering the expected results? These are some of the questions often get asked in resettlement projects post evaluations. Within this context, in this session, we explore the ground reality of “resettlement success” using two cases and discuss the role of “community engagement” from the perspectives of the communities and the policymakers.

SPEAKERS

Dr Iftekhar Ahmed, Associate Professor – Construction Management/Disaster Resilience, School of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Newcastle, Australia.

‘Building Urban Resilience in Informal Settlements: A Case from Dhaka, Bangladesh’

Mr. Kishan Sugathapala, Director, Human Settlements Planning & Training Division, National Building Research Organisation, Sri Lanka.

‘Post Disaster Resilient Housing Constructions in Sri Lanka – with special reference to the flood and landslide’

AGENDA

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09:15 am: Registration and event open.

09:30 am: Welcoming the participants – Dr Kaushal Keraminiyage, Programme Director, Research Centre for Disaster Resilience, University of Salford.

09:35 am: Speaker 1: Dr Iftekhar Ahmed, Associate Professor, University of Newcastle, Australia.

10:05 am: Q & A Session 1.

10:15 am: Speaker 2: Mr. Kishan Sugathapala, Director, National Building Research Organisation, Sri Lanka.

10:45 am: Q&A Session 2.

11:00 am: Closing Remarks: Dr Sara Biscaya, Head of Architecture and Design, University of Salford.

11:15 am: End of Session.

Please note: the event opens at 9.15 am and starts at 9:30 UK time. The event is online and the link will be sent before the event date.

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The theme of the seminar is Climate change transformation and adaptation in risk-sensitive urban development.

AIM

There is an urgent need to transform current development practices that increase or create risks as well as sometimes promote the unfair distribution of risks to vulnerable communities. Therefore, under the ESRC / GCRF funded TRANSCEND project we investigate building resilience and also promote social justice in considering risk-sensitive urban development in developing countries.

As part of this project, the aim of this seminar series is to showcase ongoing research and new initiatives in climate change mitigation and adaptation within the considerations of risk-sensitive urban development.

THEMES

The recent IPCC sixth assessment report indicates that climate change is occurring in every region and globally. It emphasises that there is still time to act but it must happen immediately, particularly those changes in systems that will significantly reduce and lead to sustained reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. Managing climate change has sometimes conflicting objectives that constitute its measures of mitigation and adaptation.

Climate change mitigation is focused on the drivers of climate change and is defined by the IPCC as “a human intervention to reduce the sources or enhance the sinks of greenhouse gases (GHGs). Climate change adaptation on the other hand seeks to reduce vulnerability and enhance coping capacity and is defined by the IPCC as “the process of adjustment to actual or expected climate and its effects” inhuman and/or natural systems (IPCC, 2014). Both climate change mitigation and adaptation require the assemblage of several skill sets, policymakers and practitioners working across several knowledge domains and geographic areas. Hence our TRANSCEND project takes a multidisciplinary approach in tackling climate change mitigation and adaptation.

SPEAKERS

Dr. Rasmus Benestad, The Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Norway:

‘Learning from stress testing cities/regions with potential climatic hazards’

Dr. Swenja Surminski, The London School of Economics:

‘Climate change adaptation and the role of business and finance’

AGENDA

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8.15 am: Registration and event open.

8.30 am: Welcoming the participants, Prof. Bingunath Ingirige, Centre for Disaster Resilience, School of Science Engineering and Environment, University of Salford, UK.

8:35 am: Opening Remarks, Prof. Terrence Fernando, Director of the THINKlab, University of Salford, UK.

8.40 am: Speaker 1 – Dr. Rasmus Benestad, The Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Norway: ‘Learning from stress testing cities/regions with potential climatic hazards’.

9.15 am: Q&A Session 1.

9:30 am: Speaker 2 – Dr. Swenja Surminski, The London School of Economics, UK: ‘Climate change adaptation and the role of business and finance’.

10:05 am: Q&A Session 2.

10.20 am: Closing Remarks, Dr. Sara Biscaya, School of Science Engineering and Environment, University of Salford, UK.

10.30 am: End of Session.

Please note: the event opens at 8.15 am and starts at 8:30 UK time. The event is online and the link will be sent before the event date.

Funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) in the UK, the TRANSCEND project is investigating socio-technical systems required for enabling a transition towards a more risk-sensitive and transformative urban development approach in Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Malaysia.

It aims to promote a participatory approach that supports the transparent and democratic involvement of all the relevant stakeholders (including experts from local authorities, disaster management authorities, developers, poor and vulnerable communities, and humanitarian organisations) to analyse, forecast, visualize and debate disaster-risk trade-offs and to choose development plans that ensure sustainability and equitable resilience, giving considerations to climate change adaptation.

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The theme of the seminar is Planning Innovation and Collaboration: The pathway to Healthy Cities.

Funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) in the UK, the TRANSCEND project is investigating socio-technical systems required for enabling a transition towards a more risk-sensitive and transformative urban development approach in Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Malaysia.

It aims to promote a participatory approach that supports the transparent and democratic involvement of all the relevant stakeholders (including experts from local authorities, disaster management authorities, developers, poor and vulnerable communities, and humanitarian organisations) to analyse, forecast, visualize and debate disaster-risk trade-offs and to choose development plans that ensure sustainability and equitable resilience, giving considerations to climate change adaptation.

SPEAKERS & AGENDA

Dr. Sebastiaan van Herk, Bax & Company (Innovation consultancy) “Planning, Innovation and Collaboration for Healthy Cities¨.

Dr. Wan Nurul Mardiah Wan Mohd Rani, Razak Faculty of Technology and Informatics, University Teknologi Malaysia: “The Processes in Risk in Sensitive Urban Development.”

Moderator:

Dr. Sara Biscaya, THINKlab, University of Salford.

AGENDA

8.30 am (15:30 Malaysia): Welcoming the participants, Dr. Sara Biscaya, THINKlab University of Salford.

9.00 am (16:00): Opening Remarks, Prof. Terrence Fernando, Director of the THINKlab.

9.10 am (16:10): Speaker 1 – Dr. Sebastiaan van Herk, Innovation Consultancy Bax & Company:

“Planning, Innovation and Collaboration for Healthy Cities”

9.35 am (16:35): Speaker 2 – Dr. Wan Nurul Mardiah Wan Mohd Rani, Razak Faculty of Technology and Informatics, University Teknologi Malaysia:

“The Processes in Risk-Sensitive Urban Development”

10.00 am (17:00): Q&A Session

10.20 am (17:20): Closing Remarks

10.30 am (17:30): End of Session

Please note: the event starts at 09:00 UK time and 16:00 Malaysia time. The event is online and the link will be sent before the event date.

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Dr. Sebastiaan van Herk, Bax & Company (Innovation consultancy).

Dr. Sebastiaan van Herk has 20 years of experience and a relentless drive to ‘Grow Talent’, ‘Accelerate Innovation’ and generate ‘Value from Science and Technology’. He is a Partner at Bax & Company which is responsible for company strategy & management and talent growth. He leads teams in Environment and Digital Technologies, and liaises with units of European Programmes and Communications. As senior consultant his role is often to conceptualise and steer innovation projects and alliances to maximum impact. He enjoys mobilising and facilitating inspiring and impact-driven international collaborations on new sustainability topics.

Since 2002 he has defined, coordinated and delivered innovation, business and policy projects for various multinational companies and SMEs; national, regional & local governments; and research institutes. These include over 50 international projects with well over €200M in innovation funding, that have guided and mobilised a multiple in public and private investments. His current project portfolio comprises environmental sector, climate adaptation, liveable and healthy cities, sustainable agriculture, circular economy, sustainable procurement, infrastructure and construction.

Sebastiaan holds a PhD degree from IHE-Delft & TU Delft in Climate Adaptation & Water Management and an MSc degree (cum laude) in Technology, Policy & Management from TU Delft (2003). He studied Industrial Engineering at the UPC Barcelona & Economics at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam.

He is founding member of the Flood Resilience Group IHE-Delft (NL). He is guest professor at UPC (ES) and Southeast University (China). He has delivered multiple research projects and over 30 scientific and professional publications. He has been appointed Advocate for UN-DRR and Expert for UN Environment. He has developed the Global Center on Adaptation as external coordinator since its inception. He contributes to educational and capacity building programmes.

Dr. Wan Nurul Mardiah Wan Mohd Rani, Razak Faculty of Technology and Informatics, University Teknologi Malaysia.

Dr. Wan Nurul Mardiah Wan Mohd Rani is a Senior Lecturer at Razak Faculty of Technology and Informatics, University Teknologi Malaysia. She is currently the Deputy Director II, Institut Sultan Iskandar, an independent non-profit research and development organisation specialises in planning and development that operates within the UTM. She is also the Managing Director of ISI Ventures Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary company of Institut Sultan Iskandar. At the faculty level, she is the Deputy Head of Green Cities and Construction Research Group.

She graduated with Bachelor Degree in Urban & Regional Planning and Master of Science in Built Environment from International Islamic University Malaysia and PhD in Urban Studies from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK. Her research interest includes Sustainable Urban Form, Resilient Cities, Risk Sensitive Cities, and Healthy Cities. At a national level, she is a registered graduate member of the Malaysian Institute of Planners and a secretariat member for Academic Research Society of Malaysia (ARMS).

She is also actively involved in various research, consultations, and publications within the area of sustainability, urban studies, resilient cities and risk-sensitive urban planning.

Dr. Sara Biscaya. THINKlab, University of Salford.

Dr Biscaya is a Lecturer in Architecture at the School of Science, Engineering and Environment (SEE), UoS and Chair of the Women’s Voice Network. She has twenty years of experience as an architect and urban planner (RIBA, ARB) specialised in the production and coordination of information and data visualization. She is also an associate with the THINKlab, current projects include ESRC, Co-Pi, Technology Enhanced Stakeholder Collaboration for Supporting Risk-Sensitive Sustainable Urban Development TRANSCEND, Co-Network for Building Multi-Institutional Collaboration for Creating Resilient Environments and Communities against Climate Change (Unite4Resilience), exploring the potential of community engagement, the environment, the economy and technology in support of deprived communities in Europe and Asian countries.

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Dr. Alfredo Stein (University of Manchester, UK).

Tpr Dr Dzul Khaimi bin Khailani (Director of the East Zone at the Federal Department of Town and Country Planning Peninsular Malaysia).

Dr. Claudia Trillo (University of Salford).

Strategic and participatory planning in building resilient and sustainable cities. Please note: the event starts at 09:00 am (open from 8:30 am), UK time.

AGENDA

8:30 am: Welcoming the participants, Dr. Sara Biscaya, THINKlab University of Salford

9:00 am: Opening Remarks, Prof. Terrence Fernando, Director of the THINKlab,

9:10 am: Speaker 1: Dr. Alfredo Stein (University of Manchester, UK)

‘Climate change adaptation: at what scale shall we plan? Linking strategic and participatory planning.’

9:35 am: Speaker 2: Pr Dr Dzul Khaimi bin Khailani PLANMalaysia (Department of Town and Country Planning)

‘Decision-making processes in building resilience within the Malaysian context.’

10:00 am: Speaker 3: Dr. Claudia Trillo (University of Salford)

‘Community engagement in planning.’

10:25 am: Q&A Session

11:00 am: Closing Remarks

11:10 am: End of Session

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Dr. Alfredo Stein, University of Manchester, UK.

Alfredo is an urban development planner with more than 35 years of experience in the design, management, and evaluation of poverty reduction and post-conflict and natural disaster reconstruction policies and programs. Since 2008, he is a lecturer in urban development planning at the University of Manchester. He has worked as a consultant for several international cooperation agencies and was a member of the United Nations Millennium Development Project Task Force on improving the lives of slum dwellers. His recent projects focus on asset planning for climate change adaptation in low-income settlements in cities of Latin America, Africa, and Asia.

Tpr Dr Dzul Khaimi bin Khailani, Director of the East Zone at the Federal Department of Town and Country Planning Peninsular Malaysia.

Tpr Dr. Dzul Khaimi bin Khailani has relevant expertise on resilience, hazard planning, risk management, environmental policy and design with a focus on building resilience through social and technical means as Director of the East Zone at the Federal Department of Town and Country Planning Peninsular Malaysia. We are honoured for him to attend and speak at our event.

Dr. Claudia Trillo, University of Salford.

Dr. Claudia Trillo is an internationally recognized researcher, with a proven track record and an extensive network of collaborators. Since 1997 her research has been complemented by a strong commitment to knowledge transfer through constant engagement with enterprise delivered through high-profile consultancy and civil servant roles. She has lectured in several countries, including the USA (MIT, Berkeley, Madison-Wisconsin, Portland, San Diego, UCLA), Iran (Mashad), Europe (Stockolm, Copenhagen, Sofia, Cluj-Napoca, Oulu), Italy (Florence, Venice, Pescara, Ascoli Piceno, Milano, Rome, Reggio Calabria).

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Guest speakers will include Dr. Khamarrul Razak (MJIIT, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia), Dr. Sara Biscaya (THINKlab, University of Salford), and Assoc. Prof. Tpr. Dr. M. Zainora Asmawi (KAED, International Islamic University Malaysia).

Funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) in the UK, the TRANSCEND project is investigating socio-technical systems required for enabling a transition towards a more risk-sensitive and transformative urban development approach in Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Malaysia.

It aims to promote a participatory approach that supports the transparent and democratic involvement of all the relevant stakeholders (including experts from local authorities, disaster management authorities, developers, poor and vulnerable communities, and humanitarian organisations) to analyse, forecast, visualize and debate disaster-risk trade-offs and to choose development plans that ensure sustainability and equitable resilience, giving considerations to climate change adaptation.

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Agenda and speakers topics include:

16:00 (09:00 UK): Welcoming the participants

16:30 (09:30 UK): Opening Remarks

16:40 (09:40 UK): Speaker 1. Dr. Khamarrul Azahari Razak (MJIIT, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia). “Transdisciplinary Approaches to Mainstream Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) for Strengthening Resilience.”

17:05 (10:05 UK): Speaker 2. Dr. Sara Biscaya (Thinklab, University of Salford). “Planning Policies in Risk-Sensitive Urban Development.”

17:30 (10:30 UK): Speaker 3. Assoc. Prof. Tpr. Dr. M. Zainora Asmawi (KAED, International Islamic University Malaysia). “Understanding the Environmental Resilience Indicators for City Resilience.”

17:55 (10:55 UK): Q&A Session

18:25 (11:25 UK): Closing Remarks

18:30 (11:30 UK): End of Session

Dr. Khamarrul Azahari Razak (MJIIT, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia)

Dr. Khamarrul Azahari Razak is currently the Director of Disaster Preparedness and Prevention Center (DPPC), Malaysia- Japan International Institute of Technology (MJIIT), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) Kuala Lumpur. DPPC is a leading disaster center in advancing science, technology and innovation for disaster risk reduction, as in line with the DPPC Transformation Plan 2030, national and global agenda. DPPC is currently a regional research hub for disaster prevention under Japan-ASEAN Science, Technology and Innovation Platform (JASTIP) based in Kuala Lumpur. He is currently a member of Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction Group, Global Young Academy based in Germany, the voice of young scientists around the world. He is also the member of the technical committee (TC) of Asian Civil Engineering Coordinating Council (ACECC) TC21: Transdisciplinary Approach for Building Societal resilience to Disasters based in Japan.

Dr. Sara Biscaya. THINKlab, University of Salford.

Dr Biscay is a Lecturer in Architecture at School of Science, Engineering and Environment (SEE), UoS and Chair of the Women’s Voice Network. She has twenty years’ experience as an architect and urban planner (RIBA, ARB) specialised in production and co-ordination of information and data visualization. She is also an associate with the THINKlab, current projects include ESRC, Co-Pi, Technology Enhanced Stakeholder Collaboration for Supporting Risk-Sensitive Sustainable Urban Development TRANSCEND, Co-Network for Building Multi-Institutional Collaboration for Creating Resilient Environments and Communities against Climate Change (Unite4Resilience), exploring the potential of community engagement, the environment, the economy and technology in support of deprived communities in Europe and Asian countries.

Assoc. Prof. Tpr. Dr. M. Zainora Asmawi, KAED, International Islamic University Malaysia.

Associate professor at Kulliyyah of Architecture and Environmental Design (KAED), International Islamic University Malaysia, and an active staff since 1999. Prof. Tpr. Dr. M. Zainora is a corporate member of the Malaysian Institute of Planners (MIP), a registered member of the Board of Town Planners Malaysia (BTPM), and Malaysian Social Impact Assessment (MSIA). She is presently the Deputy Dean (Post Graduate and Research) at KAED since January 2017. During her tenure with the university, she has held many administrative and academic leadership posts, including Head of Department, Head of Research, Academic Advisor, and Fellow. Her involvement in the research works is parallel with her contribution to the professional practice, i.e. urban planning and environmental related works. She has many research works funded by the Ministry Higher of Education (MOHE), Institut Penilaian Negara (INSPEN), and private sectors as well. She is also actively involved with the society through professional consultancy activities, both in Malaysia and internationally.

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