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Structural Safety
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Documents and publications
2023

How social infrastructure saves lives: a quantitative analysis of Japan's 3/11 disasters

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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Documents and publications
2022

Addressing the data gap: analysis of infrastructure damages and service disruption in PDNAs

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 United Nations Development Programme - Headquarters International Recovery Platform
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Publications
2022

Hybrid reconnaissance mission to the 30 October 2020 Aegean Sea earthquake and tsunami (Izmir, Turkey & Samos, Greece): description of data collection methods and damage

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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Documents and publications
2022

The Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities mitigation grant program: Incorporating hazard risk and social equity into decision making processes

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
Documents and publications
2018

A multidisciplinary definition and evaluation of resilience: the role of social justice in defining resilience

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
Documents and publications
2021

Quantitative modeling of residential building disaster recovery and effects of pre- and post-event policies

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)
Documents and publications
2021

Housing type matters for pace of recovery: Evidence from Hurricane Ike

This research examines the long-term recovery trajectories after Hurricane Ike (2008) in Galveston, Texas using parcel-level data for multifamily, single-family, and duplexes over an eight-year period. In the literature, there is relative consensus on how

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (Elsevier)
Documents and publications
2020

Rapid housing sector assessment: Sint Maarten

This rapid assessment of Sint Maarten's (SXM) housing sector was undertaken after Hurricane Irma struck Sint Maarten in September 2017. The report facilitates a dialogue with the Sint Maarten government regarding housing development, reconstruction

World Bank, the
Documents and publications
2020

Towards healthier homes in humanitarian settings

The report explores how shelter support for housing reconstruction, including through self-recovery, can contribute to physical and mental wellbeing in the short- and long-term for people recovering from disasters. The report aims to share knowledge about the connections between housing and mental and physical health and contains recommendations to inform humanitarian shelter responses and ensure wide co-benefits of post-crisis rebuilding, especially in self-recovery contexts.
Centre for Development and Emergency Practice CARE International UK
Documents and publications
2019

La reconstrucción (al detalle) para volver a casa

A dos años del 19s, ante el cambio de administración en la ciudad y los cambios en la política pública frente a la reconstrucción (aún pendiente), presentamos la actualización del Manual para para la reconstrucción con dignidad.

En esta ocasión, iremos

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