In an era where urban areas are increasingly vulnerable to natural disasters, a new study published in Engineering offers a comprehensive framework for quantifying urban disaster resilience. The ...

Keywords: Health care facilities. Disaster resiliency. Hospital networks. Quantitative evaluation. Health-care facilities. Recovery paths. Fragility functions ...

On December 7, 1988, a fault line ruptured without warning just south of the Caucasus Mountains. The resulting magnitude 6.8 seismic wave traveled at thousands of miles per hour from the earthquake’s ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. No person or place is immune from disasters or disaster-related losses. Infectious ...

Building resilience to the negative consequences of shocks — whether related to climate, conflict, economic, or factors — can limit their negative consequences on people, communities, and societies.

A recent column in Governing focusing on the relative newness of the term "infrastructure" and tracing its evolution over the past 35 years got me thinking about the word "resilience" and how we in ...

Tsunamis and earthquakes pose devastating threats to coastal communities worldwide. However, beyond the immediate destructive power of these events, the negative impact of the disaster waste they ...

Strengthening resilience is a core tenet of international development and offers a “lens” to apply to development challenges far beyond disaster response. Resilience is central to resolving challenges ...

World leaders and decision-makers from more than 100 countries will gather in a few days month in Sendai, Japan, to finalize a new global framework for disaster risk reduction which will replace the ...

Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Resilient and Inclusive Societies, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University, Deakin University In the past ten years we have seen ...