By Professor David Sanderson

Journal articles

Khalili SM; Mojtahedi M; Steinmetz-Weiss C; Sanderson D, 2026, 'Resilient transit-based evacuation planning under flood disruption: An integrated optimisation and agent-based simulation framework with an Australian case study', International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 144, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2026.106375

Sanderson D, 2026, 'The rebuilding in Nepal needs to start now. This is what worked after an earthquake a decade ago – and what to avoid', The Conversation, http://dx.doi.org/10.64628/AA.r3atcdrun

Anshuka A; Sanderson D; Le De L; Neef A; Geetika G; van Ogtrop FF, 2026, 'A Holistic Approach to Early Warning Systems Using an Agent-Based Model', International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 17, pp. 439 - 455, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13753-026-00729-7

Ulm K; Morrow O; de Leeuw E; Sanderson D; Thornton A, 2026, 'Urban gardening in public space: Policy approaches in Greater Sydney', Urban Studies, 63, pp. 932 - 948, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00420980251382327

De Sisto M; Shearing C; Heffernan T; Sanderson D, 2026, 'Reshaping disaster management: An integrated community-led approach', Australian Journal of Public Administration, 85, pp. 3 - 30, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-8500.12668

Heffernan T; Vahanvati M; Sanderson DAVID, 2025, 'A framework for future-focused housing to withstand disasters', The Policymaker

Ewenson L; Sanderson D, 2025, 'The Right to Adequate Housing in Australia: Community-Based 
Disaster Management and Social Work Advocacy', The International Journal of Community and Social Development, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/25166026251340228

Sanderson D; Heffernan T; DeSisto M; Shearing C, 2025, 'Community-centred disaster recovery: A call to change the narrative', Disasters, 49, pp. e12655, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/disa.12655

Heffernan T; Shearing C; Sanderson D, 2024, 'Building age-inclusive disaster risk reduction: Insights among geographically mobile young adults in regional Australia', International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 113, pp. 104813 - 104813, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104813

Heffernan T; Shearing C; Sanderson D; De Sisto M, 2024, 'Building cross-sector recovery collaborations after Australian bushfires: The importance of embracing and linking diverse capitals and capacities', Environmental Hazards, 24, pp. 1 - 22, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17477891.2024.2368498

Yazdani M; Loosemore M; Mojtahedi M; Sanderson D; Haghani M, 2024, 'Progress and landscape of disaster science: Insights from computational analyses', International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 108, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104536

Brady K; Gallagher C; Molyneaux R; Sanderson D; Heffernan T; Gibbs L, 2024, 'Improving long-term disaster recovery research in Australia through boosting dataset comparability', Australian Journal of Emergency Management, 39, pp. 79 - 80, https://knowledge.aidr.org.au/resources/ajem-april-2024-improving-long-term-disaster-recovery-research-in-australia-through-boosting-dataset-comparability/

Khalili SM; Mojtahedi M; Steinmetz-Weiss C; Sanderson D; Steinmetz C, 2024, 'A Systematic Literature Review on Transit-Based Evacuation Planning in Emergency Logistics Management: Optimisation and Modelling Approaches', Buildings, 14, pp. 176, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/buildings14010176

Yazdani M; Loosemore M; Mojtahedi M; Sanderson D; Haghani M, 2023, 'An integration of operations research and design science research methodology: With an application in hospital disaster management', Progress in Disaster Science, 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pdisas.2023.100300

Shirleyana ; Hawken S; Sunindijo RY; Sanderson D, 2023, 'The critical role of community networks in building everyday resilience – Insights from the urban villages of Surabaya', International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 98, pp. 104090, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2023.104090

Earl E; Johnson F; Marshall L; Sanderson D, 2023, 'A critical review of Natural Flood Management application and spatial prioritisation approaches in tropical island catchments', Science of the Total Environment, 878, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162776

Yazdani M; Mojtahedi M; Loosemore M; Sanderson D; Dixit V, 2022, 'An integrated decision model for managing hospital evacuation in response to an extreme flood event: A case study of the Hawkesbury-Nepean River, NSW, Australia', Safety Science, 155, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2022.105867

Sanderson D; Patel SS; Loosemore M; Sharma A; Gleason K; Patel R, 2022, 'Corruption and disasters in the built environment: a literature review', Disasters, 46, pp. 928 - 945, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/disa.12500

Anshuka A; van Ogtrop FF; Sanderson D; Leao SZ, 2022, 'A systematic review of agent-based model for flood risk management and assessment using the ODD protocol', Natural Hazards, 112, pp. 2739 - 2771, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11069-022-05286-y

Yazdani M; Mojtahedi M; Loosemore M; Sanderson D, 2022, 'A modelling framework to design an evacuation support system for healthcare infrastructures in response to major flood events', Progress in Disaster Science, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pdisas.2022.100218

Arthur H; Sanderson D; Tranter P; Thornton A, 2022, 'A review of theoretical frameworks of food system governance, and the search for food system sustainability', Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 46, pp. 1277 - 1300, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21683565.2022.2104422

Keen M; Sanderson D; Osborne K; Deo R; Faith J; Ride A, 2022, 'AREA-BASED APPROACHES AND URBAN DISASTER RECOVERY IN THE PACIFIC: LESSONS FROM FIJI, SOLOMON ISLANDS AND VANUATU', Environment and Urbanization

Schmidt C; Chruścińska A; Fasoli M; Biernacka M; Kreutzer S; Polymeris GS; Sanderson DCW; Cresswell A; Adamiec G; Martini M, 2022, 'A systematic multi-technique comparison of luminescence characteristics of two reference quartz samples', Journal of Luminescence, 250, pp. 119070, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jlumin.2022.119070

Yazdani M; Mojtahedi M; Loosemore M; Sanderson D; Dixit V, 2021, 'Hospital evacuation modelling: A critical literature review on current knowledge and research gaps', International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 66, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102627

Anshuka A; van Ogtrop FF; Sanderson D; Thomas E; Neef A, 2021, 'Vulnerabilities shape risk perception and influence adaptive strategies to hydro-meteorological hazards: A case study of Indo-Fijian farming communities', International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 62, pp. 102401, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102401

Shirleyana ; Hawken S; Sunindijo RY; Sanderson D, 2021, 'Narratives of everyday resilience: lessons from an urban kampung community in Surabaya, Indonesia', International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment, 12, pp. 196 - 208, http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/IJDRBE-06-2020-0056

Munyikwa K; Kinnaird TC; Sanderson DCW, 2021, 'The potential of portable luminescence readers in geomorphological investigations: a review', Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 46, pp. 131 - 150, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/esp.4975

Vaccari MS; Sanderson D; Loosemore M; Mojitahedi M, 2020, 'Fit for purpose? Lessons from transitional shelter provision for internally displaced persons in urban informal settlements in Brazil', Disaster Prevention and Management an International Journal, 29, pp. 943 - 959, http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/DPM-01-2020-0016

Carter J; Ickert RB; Mark DF; Tremblay MM; Cresswell AJ; Sanderson DCW, 2020, 'Production of 40Ar by an overlooked mode of 40K decay with implications for K-Ar geochronology', Geochronology, 2, pp. 355 - 365, http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gchron-2-355-2020

Patel R; Sanderson D; Sitko P; De Boer J, 2020, 'Investigating urban vulnerability and resilience: a call for applied integrated research to reshape the political economy of decision-making', Environment and Urbanization, 32, pp. 589 - 598, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956247820909275

Loosemore M; Sanderson D, 2020, 'Is the world creating a “paradise for corruption” that weakens its resilience to future disasters?', Fifth Estate, https://www.thefifthestate.com.au/innovation/building-construction/is-the-world-creating-a-paradise-for-corruption-that-weakens-its-resilience-to-future-disasters/?ct=t%2830+June+2020%29&mc_cid=614356ab8d&mc_eid=%5BUNIQID%5D

Sanderson D, 2020, 'Urban response: three principles for good practice', Forced Migration Review, pp. 8 - 11, https://www.fmreview.org/sites/fmr/files/FMRdownloads/en/cities/sanderson.pdf

Sanderson D, 2019, 'Coordination in urban humanitarian response', Progress in Disaster Science, 1, pp. 1 - 4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pdisas.2019.100004

Kinnaird T; Dawson T; Sanderson D; Hamilton D; Cresswell A; Rennell R, 2019, 'Chronostratigraphy of an Eroding Complex Atlantic Round House, Baile Sear, Scotland', The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 14, pp. 46 - 60, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2017.1368744

Cresswell AJ; Sanderson DCW; Carter J, 2019, 'Review of nuclear data for naturally occurring radionuclides applied to environmental applications', The European Physical Journal Plus, 134, pp. 69, http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epjp/i2019-12437-1

Shi P; Shaw R; Ardalan A; Chan EYY; Choudhury JR; Cui P; Fu B; Han G; Han Q; Izumi T; Kasuga F; Yulo Loyzaga A; Pereira JJ; Ravan SK; Sanderson D; Sharma VK; Thomalla F; Triutomo S; Yang S; Ye Q; Wang M; Wu Y; Zhang R; Zhang W; Li Y; Yang S, 2018, 'Fourteen Actions and Six Proposals for Science and Technology-Based Disaster Risk Reduction in Asia: Second Asian Science and Technology Conference for Disaster Risk Reduction: Science-Policy Dialogue for Implementation of the Sendai Framework, April 2018', International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 9, pp. 275 - 279, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13753-018-0174-9

Sanderson D; sitko P, 2018, 'Ten principles for area-based approaches in urban post-disaster recovery', Humanitarian Exchange, pp. 20 - 23, https://odihpn.org/magazine/ten-principles-area-based-approaches-urban-post-disaster-recovery/

Sanderson D, 2018, 'Shifting from supply to demand: opportunities for improving humanitarian response in urban disaster settings', Development Bulletin, 79, pp. 63 - 67, https://crawford.anu.edu.au/rmap/devnet/devnet/db-79.pdf

Cresswell AJ; Sanderson DCW; Yamaguchi K, 2018, 'Assessment of the calibration of gamma spectrometry systems in forest environments', Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 181, pp. 70 - 77, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2017.10.019

Sanderson D; Patel R; King J; Phelps L, 2017, 'Discussion Informed by Recurrent Lessons from a Systematic Review on Targeting Practices in Urban Humanitarian Crises', PloS Currents: Disasters, 9, pp. ecurrents.dis.0d0be4b294b40f5e51ee7b58d9687ea0, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/currents.dis.0d0be4b294b40f5e51ee7b58d9687ea0

Sanderson D, 2017, 'Implementing area-based approaches (ABAs) in urban post-disaster contexts', Environment and Urbanization, 29, pp. 349 - 364, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956247817717422

Sanderson D; Jones P, 2017, 'Urban resilience: Informal and squatter settlements in the Pacific Region', Development Bulletin, pp. 11 - 15

Xu S; Cook GT; Cresswell AJ; Dunbar E; Freeman SPHT; Hou X; Jacobsson P; Kinch HR; Naysmith P; Sanderson DCW; Tripney BG, 2016, 'Radiocarbon Releases from the 2011 Fukushima Nuclear Accident', Scientific Reports, 6, pp. 36947, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep36947

Xu S; Zhang L; Freeman SPHT; Hou X; Yamaguchi K; Cresswell AJ; Sanderson DCW, 2016, '129I and 137Cs in groundwater in the vicinity of Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant', Geochemical Journal, 50, pp. 287 - 291, http://dx.doi.org/10.2343/geochemj.2.0414

Xu S; Cook GT; Cresswell AJ; Dunbar E; Freeman SPHT; Hastie H; Hou X; Jacobsson P; Naysmith P; Sanderson DCW; Tripney BG; Yamaguchi K, 2016, '14C levels in the vicinity of the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant prior to the 2011 accident', Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 157, pp. 90 - 96, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2016.03.013

Xu S; Zhang L; Freeman SPHT; Hou X; Watanabe A; Sanderson DCW; Cresswell A; Yamaguchi K, 2016, 'Iodine isotopes in precipitation: Four-year time series variations before and after 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident', Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 155, pp. 38 - 45, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2016.02.011

Palamakumbura RN; Robertson AHF; Kinnaird TC; Sanderson DCW, 2016, 'Sedimentary development and correlation of Late Quaternary terraces in the Kyrenia Range, northern Cyprus, using a combination of sedimentology and optical luminescence data', International Journal of Earth Sciences, 105, pp. 439 - 462, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00531-015-1173-3

Xu S; Zhang L; Freeman SPHT; Hou X; Shibata Y; Sanderson D; Cresswell A; Doi T; Tanaka A, 2015, 'Speciation of Radiocesium and Radioiodine in Aerosols from Tsukuba after the Fukushima Nuclear Accident', Environmental Science and Technology, 49, pp. 1017 - 1024, http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/es504431w

Ghilardi M; Sanderson D; Kinnaird T; Bicket A; Balossino S; Parisot J-C; Hermitte D; Guibal F; Fleury JT, 2015, 'Dating the bridge at Avignon (south France) and reconstructing the Rhone River fluvial palaeo-landscape in Provence from medieval to modern times', Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, 4, pp. 336 - 354, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.10.002

Kinnaird TC; Sanderson DCW; Bigelow GF, 2015, 'Feldspar SARA IRSL dating of very low dose rate aeolian sediments from Sandwick South, Unst, Shetland', Quaternary Geochronology, 30, pp. 168 - 174, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2015.02.019

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