Given the devastating losses incurred by past major earthquake events together with the
ever-increasing global seismic exposures due to population growth and urbanization …

Seismic resilience is a concept to evaluate the postearthquake functionality of structures that
significantly play a critical role in postearthquake rescue and recovery. Indeed, the …

The goal of this article is twofold: to clarify the tenets of convergence research and to
motivate such research in the hazards and disaster field. Here, convergence research is …

Around the globe, cities seek to improve their resilience to face the stresses and shocks that
are expected from global climate change and other threats. In implementing urban resilience …

Numerous approaches to earthquake risk modeling and quantification have already been
proposed in the literature and/or are well established in practice. However, most of these …

Housing recovery is an unequal and complex process presumed to occur in four stages:
emergency shelter, temporary shelter, temporary housing, and permanent housing. This …

A framework of agent-based models for housing recovery is presented and used to
investigate post-earthquake recovery in the City of Vancouver, Canada. Housing recovery is …

Methods matter. They influence what we know and who we come to know about in the
context of hazards and disasters. Research methods are of profound importance to the …

Many previous disasters have demonstrated the need for extensive personal, public, and
governmental expenditures for housing recovery highlighting the importance of studying …

The debris field of earthquake-induced building collapse can block or reduce the capacity of
adjacent sidewalks and roads, hinder emergency and evacuation operations, and therefore …