Smart city indicators: Towards exploring potential linkages to disaster resilience abilities

Recent advances in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have transformed all aspects of human life. Enabled by these advances, over the past few decades, many smart city initiatives have been developed across the world. Subsequently, various efforts have been made to develop indicators and frameworks for the assessment of smart cities. Generally, smart cities are...

Sharifi, A. (2022). Smart city indicators: Towards exploring potential linkages to disaster resilience abilities. APN Science Bulletin, 12(1). doi:10.30852/sb.2022.1873

Opportunities and challenges of compliance to safe building codes: Bangladesh and Nepal

This paper discusses the opportunities and challenges of compliance to safe building codes in Bangladesh and Nepal for increased disaster resilience. Recent disasters in both countries highlight that non-compliance to building codes is one of the significant causes of building-related disasters. Increased institutional and community awareness of the importance of safe building codes presents an...

Ahmed, I., Gajendran, T., Brewer, G., Maund, K., Von Meding, J., Kabir, H., . . . Sitoula, N. (2019). Opportunities and challenges of compliance to safe building codes: Bangladesh and Nepal. APN Science Bulletin, 9(1). doi:10.30852/sb.2019.834