Overview
- Presents high quality research advancements in disaster resilience with an international approach
- Offers a unique fusion of technical, organizational, social and economic aspects of resilience
- Covers fundamental concepts, applications and illustrations of disaster resilience
- Introduces Resilience-Based Design (RBD) as an extension of Performance-Based Design (PBD) with an international scope
- Clarifies the difference between resilience, vulnerability and sustainability
- Covers the 7 dimensions of resilience included by PEOPLES
- Focuses on the infrastructure dimension, with applications to transportation and hydraulic, gas and electric networks
Part of the book series: Geotechnical, Geological and Earthquake Engineering (GGEE, volume 41)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Definition and Quantification of Theoretical Framework to Evaluate Resilience
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Applications of Resilience Concepts to Different Networks
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Resilience Mitigation Actions and Tools
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About this book
Underlining the importance of the physical infrastructure dimension, the book provides several examples of applications for transportation, hydraulic, gas and power networks. The problem of interdependencies and the domino effect is also taken into account during the analysis. One of the book’s closing chapters focuses on different methodologies for improving disaster preparedness and engineering mitigation strategies, while the last chapter describes the different computer platforms available on the market for evaluating Community Resilience.
The book offers readers an extensive introduction to the concept of Resilience-Based Design, together with selected advanced applications for specialists. No prerequisite knowledge is needed in order to understand the book, and the Appendix offers valuable supplemental information on e.g. the probabilistic concepts. As such, the book offers a valuable resourcefor graduate students, young engineers and researchers who are interested in the topic, and can also be used as a supplementary text in graduate level Disaster Resilience courses.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Urban Resilience for Emergency Response and Recovery
Book Subtitle: Fundamental Concepts and Applications
Authors: Gian Paolo Cimellaro
Series Title: Geotechnical, Geological and Earthquake Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30656-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-30655-1Published: 31 May 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80861-1Published: 30 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-30656-8Published: 04 June 2016
Series ISSN: 1573-6059
Series E-ISSN: 1872-4671
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 522
Number of Illustrations: 183 b/w illustrations, 126 illustrations in colour
Topics: Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences, Civil Engineering, Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk