Urban Resilience for Emergency Response and Recovery

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This book introduces Resilience-Based Design (RBD) as an extension of Performance-Based Design, offering cutting-edge methodologies for resilience evaluation while clarifying resilience, vulnerability, and sustainability. It begins by discussing various uncertainties in resilience evaluation, followed by a chapter on analytical and experimental recovery functions. Building on MCEER's definition of resilience, the methodology is expanded to include seven dimensions of Community Resilience, represented by the acronym PEOPLES: Population and Demographics, Environmental/Ecosystem, Organized Governmental Services, Physical Infrastructures, Lifestyle and Community Competence, Economic Development, and Socio-Cultural Capital. Each dimension is detailed with components, subcomponents, and related indices. The book emphasizes the significance of physical infrastructure, providing examples in transportation, hydraulic, gas, and power networks, while addressing interdependencies and the domino effect. Subsequent chapters explore methodologies for enhancing disaster preparedness and engineering mitigation strategies, concluding with an overview of available computer platforms for evaluating Community Resilience. This comprehensive introduction to RBD, suitable for graduate students, young engineers, and researchers, requires no prior knowledge, with an Appendix offering supplemental information on probabilistic concepts, making it a valua