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After a wildfire: Considerations for building environmental testing  thumbnail
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This resource, made accessible for property owners and health officials, is designed to help people better understand and resolve building safety questions in recovery after wildfires.

Purdue University
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This research looks at how housing policy and planning can better prepare for disasters, and enable recovery from them.

Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute
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This study initially considers the seismicity of the Türkiye region where the earthquakes that occurred on 6 February 2023 took place, as well as the seismic characteristics of these earthquakes.

Natural Hazards (Springer)
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This article explores how social infrastructure plays an important role in our communities, especially in mitigating and recovering from shocks.

Japanese Journal of Political Science
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This report aims to examine data on disaster losses related to infrastructure damage and service disruption in Post Disaster Needs Assessments (PDNAs) submitted by nations between 2010 and 2020, and to identify where gaps still exist in PDNA reporting.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
International Recovery Platform
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This paper summarises the findings of a mission that conducted damage assessment following an earthquake in Turkey and Greece in October 2020, which was followed by a tsunami.

Frontiers in Built Environment
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This report identifies ways for the BRIC program to develop a multihazard, forward-looking, risk-based approach to mitigation that also incorporates issues of equity and community well-being in its application and evaluation processes.

U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Study on the Status of Building   Code Implementation in 2015 Earthquake Affected District
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This study presents the findings of the survey to understand the status of the Building Code Implementation and to assess awareness level regarding the National Building Code at the districts affected by 2015 Gorkha earthquake.

Housing Recovery and Reconstruction Platform
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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 social justice can be accounted for and addressed more adequately

Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure (Taylor & Francis)
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This paper proposes a methodology based on a multi-layer Monte Carlo simulation to model a two-stage recovery process for residential buildings: functional downtime due to delay and functional downtime due to repair. The delay portion of the model was

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (Elsevier)