Proceedings of the First ANDROID Residential Doctoral School: Work Package III, Limassol, Cyprus, 23-24 October 2013

This volume brings together the contributions of all the doctoral researchers taking part in the RDS (2013) in to a set of full edited proceedings. The papers collated here demonstrate the richness and interdisciplinary nature of research topics and problems being addressed by disaster resilience researchers. The submissions cover a wide spectrum of topics such as risk assessment, post-disaster reconstruction, vulnerability, collaborative management, gender issues and communication barriers. The work of the doctoral researchers presented here is a valuable contribution to a body of knowledge which given the growing vulnerability and exposure to disasters of human and natural origin depends on the development of expertise of young students.