Population growth, economic development, and rapid urbanization in many areas have led
to increased exposure and vulnerability of structural and infrastructure systems to hazards …

Decision makers, practitioners and community members need to assess the disaster
resilience of their communities and to understand better the risks they face from natural …

This paper aims to explore how insights from the philosophical and social science literature
can be incorporated into the definition of resilient infrastructure so that considerations of …

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

Fostering high-resolution disaster resilience assessment is essential for high-density cities
(HDCs) given their congested built environment. This study introduces and demonstrates a …

Flood risk to urban communities is increasing significantly as a result of the integrated effects
of climate change and socioeconomic development. The latter effect is one of the main …

Developing and enhancing societal capacity to understand, debate elements of, and take
actionable steps toward a sustainable future at a scale beyond the individual are critical …

Resilience has become a cornerstone for risk management and disaster reduction.
However, it has evolved extensively both etymologically and conceptually in time and across …

We urgently need to put the concept of resilience into practice if we are to prepare our
communities for climate change and exacerbated natural hazards. Yet, despite the extensive …

A major challenge for measuring community resilience is the lack of empirical observations
in disasters. As an effective tool to observe human activities on the earth surface, night-time …