title: Realising a resilient and sustainable built environment: towards a strategic agenda for the United Kingdom.
abstract: Recent natural and human-induced emergencies have highlighted the vulnerability of the built environment. Although most emergency events are not entirely unexpected, and the effects can be mitigated, emergency managers in the United Kingdom have not played a sufficiently proactive role in the mitigation of such events. If a resilient and sustainable built environment is to be achieved, emergency management should be more proactive and receive greater input from the stakeholders responsible for the planning, design, construction and operation of the built environment. This paper highlights the need for emergency management to take a more systematic approach to hazard mitigation by integrating more with professions from the construction sector. In particular, design changes may have to be considered, critical infrastructures must be protected, planning policies should be reviewed, and resilient and sustainable agendas adopted by all stakeholders.
authors: Department of Civil and Building Engineering, Loughborough University, Leicestershire, United Kingdom. L.Bosher@lboro.ac.uk
authors: Lee
authors: L
authors: Bosher
authors: Patricia
authors: P
authors: Carrillo
authors: Andrew
authors: A
authors: Dainty
authors: Jacqueline
authors: J
authors: Glass
authors: Andrew
authors: A
authors: Price
mesh_terms: D002028:Building Codes; D003252:Construction Materials; D004189:Disaster Planning; D004190:Disasters; D004779:Environment Design; D006804:Ergonomics; D005160:Facility Design and Construction; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D011640:Public Policy; D018635:Rescue Work; D012637:Security Measures; D006113:United Kingdom