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Author: A. Nuno Martins (University of Lisbon, Portugal) ,
Mahmood Fayazi (The Institute for Disaster Management and Reconstruction (IDMR) at Sichuan University and Polytechnic University, Hong Kong<br>Chengdu City, Sichuan, China) ,
Faten Kikano (University of Montreal, Canada) ,
Liliane Hobeica (Environmental Hazard and Risk Assessment and Management (RISKam) research group, Centre of Geographical Studies (CEG), University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Publisher: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
Imprint: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc
ISBN: 9780128190784
ISBN 10: 0128190787
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 01 November 2020
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
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Since 2013 Dr. Martins has been an integrated researcher of CIAUD, the Research Centre for Architecture, Urbanism, and Design, within the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon with a project addressing risk, resilience as well as humanitarian architecture for disaster-prone and informal settlement environments. In the past three years, he has chaired major global conferences and design competitions focused on risk, resilience and humanitarian architecture. As a project manager of the NGO Building 4 Humanity, Design, and Reconstructing Communities Association he has been leading multidisciplinary teams in projects and missions in Portugal, Africa and Brasil. The outcomes of the action-research fieldwork have been presented in conferences in the areas of sustainability, urban disaster as well as design in development and subsequently published in proceedings, books and journals. His current research interests include the re-visitation of the concept of incremental housing and the introduction of humanitarian architecture into architectural education. Dr. Mahmood Fayazi is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Disaster Management and Reconstruction (IDMR) at Sichuan University and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Drawing on discourses of resilience, vulnerability, and climate change adaptation, his research focuses on explaining why and how environment disturbances and climate change pressures impact human settlements. Currently, he leads a research project that focuses on the impacts of reconstruction projects on the marginalized and unprivileged rural communities after the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake in China. Also, in close collaboration with several scholars in Canada, he investigates household disparities and the impact of alternative disaster mitigation strategies on Indigenous and non-indigenous communities in Southern Quebec in Canada. Dr. Fayazi has published a book, several scholarly articles, and presented his research findings at many international conferences around the globe. Along with the research activities, he has developed several courses and taught a variety of class in different languages (English, French, and Farsi) and different countries (Canada, Iran, and China). Faten Kikano currently works at the University of Montreal conducting research in Cultural Anthropology. Her current project is 'i-Rec Information and Research for Reconstruction'. She specializes in refugee hosting and settlement policies and conducted a case study on Syrian refugee spaces in Lebanon and Jordan. She has also been an Instructor in McGill University's School of Urban Planning, Housing and Community Reconstruction after Disasters. Liliane Hobeica is an architect-urbanist who worked with mainstream building projects, before turning her attention to the city and urban-sustainability issues and concentrating her research and practice on slum-upgrading processes. Her research activities have been following a broad disciplinary approach. After three master degrees, in urbanism, human ecology and risk sciences, she concluded in 2018 a PhD in risk sciences, in which she explored the potentials of spatial design as a flood-adaptation tool within urban-riverfront interventions.
