"Housing System's Disaster Resilience in the longterm"

Call for Papers-"Housing System's Disaster Resilience in the longterm"

Journal: International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

Publisher: Elsevier

Submission Deadline: 30 Aug 2026

Key Requirements:

• Long-term, longitudinal, or case-study evidence is preferred.

• Housing as a system within a system is the central framing.

• Marginalised groups, informal settlements, and resilient recovery are strongly encouraged.

Overview

This special issue focuses on how disaster-prone housing systems can strengthen long-term resilience through better reconstruction, governance, and community-led recovery. It emphasizes learning from past disasters, moving beyond short-term operational fixes, and building systemic capacity across relief, reconstruction, and recovery. Submissions should connect housing with socio-ecological or socio-ecological-technical systems thinking and show how policies and practices shape resilience over time.

Key Research Themes

• Cross-cultural case study synthesis, especially from Australia and the Asia-Pacific region.

• Community-led or owner-driven housing reconstruction.

• Socio-ecological-systems and socio-ecological-technical-systems resilience.

• Housing reconstruction and recovery as systemic, not just operational, change.

• Governance shifts from reactive, top-down approaches to proactive, decentralized, continuous governance.

• Longitudinal studies bridging relief, reconstruction, and recovery.

• Multi- and interdisciplinary work across built environment, development economics, and human geography.

Submission Instructions

• Submit through Editorial Manager.

• After opening a new manuscript, select "VSI: Housing system resilience" from the article type dropdown.

• Follow the Guide for Authors carefully.

• Submission opened on 25 Mar 2026 and closes on 30 Aug 2026.

• Accepted papers will be reviewed by at least two independent experts.

Guest Editors

• Mittul Vahanvati, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.

• Elizabeth Maly, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.

• Sandra Carrasco, Deakin University, Burwood, Australia.

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