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Built environment portrays a vital role in keeping every city function and operate despite the occurrence of a disaster. Universities and college campuses, as an example, have experienced undesirable impacts including disturbing frequency that resulted to death and injury, monetary losses and disruption of educational activities such as teaching, research, and public service. Situated in a highly vulnerable location in terms of flooding, the University of Santo Tomas is used as a case study. In the qualitative analysis of the components of a disaster resilient university particularly focusing on the existing built environment, the integration of the four stages of disaster risk management cycle (mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery) is done based on empirical findings. The researchers recommend the mainstreaming of climate change adaption/disaster risk reduction and mitigation, clustering of the built environment in relation to disaster risk management cycle and a proposing a diverse building typology to increase disaster resilience as main characteristics of a disaster resilient university.
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Computation of student population on the 2017 records from the UST Office of the Registrar.
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A heartfelt acknowledgment is given to the UST Office of the Vice Rector for Finance and Office of the Secretary General for providing reference materials for the conduct of this study. Also, to UST College of Architecture particularly the students of AY. 2017–2018 4AR5 and 4AR9 Planning Classes for contributing to the data gathering of this study, and to Michael Angelo Reyes for the photographs provided on this document.
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Serrano, V., Pinlac, J.C. (2020). Built Environment Assessment of a Disaster Resilient University: A Case Study of the University of Santo Tomas. In: Bougdah, H., Versaci, A., Sotoca, A., Trapani, F., Migliore, M., Clark, N. (eds) Urban and Transit Planning. Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17308-1_8
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