Nishara Fernando

Extreme events and disasters: a window of opportunity for change? Analysis of organizational, institutional and political changes, formal and informal responses after mega-disasters

Joern Birkmann, P. D. Buckle, Jochen A.G. Jaeger et al. · Natural Hazards · 2008 · 459 citations

Management, Organization Studies, Political Science +16

From Top-Down to “Community-Centric” Approaches to Early Warning Systems: Exploring Pathways to Improve Disaster Risk Reduction Through Community Participation

Marie-Ange Baudoin, Sarah Henly-Shepard, Nishara Fernando et al. · International Journal of Disaster Risk Science · 2016 · 151 citations · Full text

Planning, Disaster Planning, Emergency Planning +15

Measuring revealed and emergent vulnerabilities of coastal communities to tsunami in Sri Lanka

Nishara Fernando · Disasters · 2007 · 143 citations

Pharmacy, Risk Management, Emergency Management +16

The complex decision-making of climate-induced relocation: adaptation and loss and damage

Karen E. McNamara, Robin Bronen, Nishara Fernando et al. · Climate Policy · 2016 · 115 citations

Management, Geography, Human Geography +17

Tsunami risk reduction – are we better prepared today than in 2004?

Finn Løvholt, Neysa J. Setiadi, Joern Birkmann et al. · International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction · 2014 · 104 citations

Planning, Disaster Planning, Emergency Preparedness +12