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Sustainable Cities and Resilience

Select Proceedings of VCDRR 2021

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Editors:
  1. Indrajit Pal

    1. Disaster Preparedness, Mitigation and Management, Asian Institute of Technology, Klong Luang, Thailand

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  2. Sreevalsa Kolathayar

    1. Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Mangalore, India

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  • Is a comprehensive volume on disaster risk reduction (DRR) and its management for a sustainable built environment
  • Emphasizes on the role of civil engineering for a disaster resilient society
  • Presents the select proceedings of the Virtual Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (VCDRR 2021)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering (LNCE, volume 183)

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Table of contents (39 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. City Resilience and Sustainable Infrastructure—An Introduction

    • Indrajit Pal, Sreevalsa Kolathayar, Satya Venkata Sai Aditya Bharadwaz Ganni
    Pages 1-13

  3. Resilient Infrastructure in Construction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. Risk and Resilience of Railway Infrastructure: An Assessment on Uncertainties of Rail Accidents to Improve Risk and Resilience Through Long-Term Data Analysis

      • Panrawee Rungskunroch, Anson Jack, Sakdirat Kaewunruen
      Pages 17-27

    3. Assessing Resilience of Transportation Networks Under Multi-hazards: A Review

      • Alok Rathore, Rajeev Kumar Garg
      Pages 29-43

    4. Risk Management in Construction Industry

      • Surisetti Divya Sankar, Kulkarni Shashikanth, Sangamalla Mahender
      Pages 45-55

    5. Achieving Sustainability Goals Through Infrastructure Modifications: Lessons Learnt from COVID-19 Pandemic

      • Poornima Ramesh, Bharani Alagirisamy
      Pages 57-68

    6. Vulnerability and Impact Assessment of Extreme Climate Events in the Greek Oil Industry

      • Theodoros Katopodis, Athanasios Sfetsos, Emmanuel D. Adamides
      Pages 69-84

    7. Catastrophic Events at the River Basins Due to Permafrost Thawing: Review and Examples

      • Elena Dolgopolova
      Pages 85-95

    8. Effect of Land Uses on Personal Exposure of Street Vendors at a Metropolitan City

      • Smaranika Panda
      Pages 97-101

    9. Social Vulnerability Assessment to Natural Hazards in Western Nepal

      • Sumeet Moktan, Kumud R. Kafle, Suman Chapagain
      Pages 103-114

    10. Sustainable Urban Drainage System to Avoid Flooding of Rain Origin and Improving Green Areas, Lima, Peru

      • López Amaro, José Luis, Villavicencio Cuya, Raquel Lorena, Silva Dávila, Marisa Rosana
      Pages 115-126

  4. Innovative Construction Interventions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127
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    2. Replacement of River Sand with Coal Bottom Ash as Fine Aggregate in Cement Mortar

      • Sharmili Wasnik, G. S. Pavan, Susant Padhi
      Pages 129-139

    3. Strength and Durability Properties of Alkali-Activated Fly Ash Earth Bricks

      • G. S. Vasavi, R. Mourougane, G. S. Pavan
      Pages 141-152

    4. Experimental Optimization of GGBS Fly Ash-Based Geopolymer Concrete Paver Blocks

      • Debjit Mitra Roy, Satadru Das Adhikary, Piyali Sengupta
      Pages 153-161

    5. An Experimental Study of Creep Behavior for Disturbance of Unsaturated Expansive Clay Soil

      • Nariman Hisham Halalo
      Pages 163-177

    6. Practical Design of Stone Column in Predicting Settlement Performance

      • Kok Shien Ng, Yee Ming Chew
      Pages 179-192

    7. Using Prestressed Reinforced Concrete Piles as Basement Walls for High-Rise Buildings

      • Thi My Dung Do, Thanh Quang Khai Lam
      Pages 193-207

    8. Analytical Study on Single Span Reinforced Concrete Beam with Continuous Spiral Reinforcement Under Pure Torsion

      • M. Prakash, V. Deepakraj, N. Parthasarathi, S. Srinivasa Senthil
      Pages 209-217
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About this book

This book presents the select proceedings of the Virtual Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (VCDRR 2021). It provides insights on urban resilience and sustainable infrastructure. All the chapters in this volume are segregated into five clusters, e.g., Resilient infrastructure in construction, Innovative construction interventions, Waste Management and Disaster Risk Reduction, Urban Development and Sustainability, and Cross-cutting issues. Various topics covered in this book are risk assessment, prevention, mitigation, preparedness and response, renewable energy, waste management, resilient cities, and environmental management. This book is a comprehensive volume on disaster risk reduction (DRR) and its management for a sustainable built environment. This book will be useful for the students, researchers, policy makers and professionals working in the area of civil engineering, especially disaster management.


 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Disaster Preparedness, Mitigation and Management, Asian Institute of Technology, Klong Luang, Thailand

    Indrajit Pal

  • Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Mangalore, India

    Sreevalsa Kolathayar

About the editors

​Dr. Indrajit Pal presently working as Assistant Professor and Chair at Disaster Preparedness, Mitigation, and Management program at the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand. Prior to joining at AIT, Dr. Pal served as a faculty member at Centre for Disaster Management at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie, India (Premier National Institute for training Indian Administrative Services Officers). Dr. Pal has done extensive work on capacity development of decision-makers, risk assessment and disaster risk governance. Dr. Pal has written 6 books and more than 55 articles in international and national peer-reviewed journals apart from supervising masters and doctoral research. Dr. Pal having about 18 years of experience in research and capacity development on Disaster Risk Management and Governance and Disaster Risk Science and Education. RESEARCH EXPERTISE: Disaster Risk Governance, Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Development, Incident CommandSystem (ICS), GIS / RS in disaster risk management, Climate Change Adaptation, Community Based Disaster Risk Management, Disaster Risk Science and Education, Sustainability, Public Health Risk assessment.


 


Dr Sreevalsa Kolathayar pursued M.Tech from IIT Kanpur, PhD from Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and served as International Research Staff at UPC BarcelonaTech Spain. He is presently Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Surathkal, Karnataka, India. Dr Sreevalsa has authored six books and over 75 research papers. He is Associate Editor of two International Journals and Executive Guest Editor for one. His research interests include Seismic Hazard Assessment, Geohazards, Earthquake Preparedness, Landslides, and Water geotechnics. The New Indian Express honoured Dr Sreevalsa with South India's Most Inspiring Young Teachers Award. He is in the roster of two technical committees of ASCE Geo-Institute. He received "IEI Young Engineers Award'' by The Institution of Engineers (India), in recognition of his contributions in the field of Civil Engineering.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Sustainable Cities and Resilience

  • Book Subtitle: Select Proceedings of VCDRR 2021

  • Editors: Indrajit Pal, Sreevalsa Kolathayar

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5543-2

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-5542-5Published: 26 October 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-5545-6Published: 27 October 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-5543-2Published: 25 October 2021

  • Series ISSN: 2366-2557

  • Series E-ISSN: 2366-2565

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 497

  • Number of Illustrations: 34 b/w illustrations, 197 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Environment, general, Natural Hazards, Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences

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