Earthquake Hazard Impact and Urban Planning

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Earthquake Hazard Impact and Urban Planning—An Introduction

   • Maria Bostenaru Dan, Iuliana Armaş, Agostino Goretti

   Pages 1-12

3. Urban Hazard, Exposure and Vulnerability

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. Active Fault Systems and Their Significance for Urban Planning in Bucharest, Romania

      • Dumitru Ioane, Mihail Diaconescu, Florina Chitea, George Garbacea

      Pages 15-43

   3. Capacities of Remote Sensing for Population Estimation in Urban Areas

      • Julia Kubanek, Eike-Marie Nolte, Hannes Taubenböck, Friedemann Wenzel, Martin Kappas

      Pages 45-66

   4. The Vulnerability of Fragile Landscape and Complex Hazards

      • Cerasella Crăciun

      Pages 67-81

4. Earthquake Risk Assessment

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83

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   2. Scenarios for Local Seismic Effects of Tulcea (Romania) Crustal Earthquakes—Preliminary Approach of the Seismic Risk Characterization for Tulcea City

      • Ştefan Florin Bălan, Dumitru Ioane, Carmen Cioflan, Ionelia Panea, Bogdan Apostol, Zina Malita et al.

      Pages 85-103

   3. High-Detail Damage Pattern in Towns Hit by Earthquakes of the Past: An Approach to Evaluate the Reliability of the Historical Sources

      • Fabrizio Terenzio Gizzi, Lucia Tilio, Nicola Masini, Beniamino Murgante, Maria Rosaria Potenza, Cinzia Zotta

      Pages 105-125

   4. Spatial Multi-Criteria Risk Assessment of Earthquakes from Bucharest, Romania

      • Iuliana Armaş, Mircea Rădulian

      Pages 127-149

   5. The Urban System of Crotone, Italy, Facing the Earthquake Impact

      • Agostino Goretti, Sabino Vetta, Francesco Palmieri, Fabio Adamo, Massimo Berlingeri, Luigi Palmieri

      Pages 151-168

5. Risk Management

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-169

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   2. Principles for the Evaluation of Risk Governance and the Measurement of Performance

      • Urbano Fra Paleo

      Pages 171-193

   3. Continuity and Discontinuity of Urban Form—The Issue of Risk

      • Tiberiu Florescu

      Pages 195-211

   4. Timber Frame Historic Structures and the Local Seismic Culture—An Argumentation

      • Maria Bostenaru Dan

      Pages 213-230

   5. Design in Time of Crisis

      • Sergiu Cătălin Petrea

      Pages 231-245

6. Impact and Decision Making Tools

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 247-247

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   2. A Proposal to Improve the Disaster Management Cycle Model: the Importance of Community Participation

      • Alessia Cerqua, Silvia Rapicetta

      Pages 249-257

   3. Aspects of Architecture and Urbanism in the Reconstruction of Disaster: Comparison of L’ Aquila (Italy) with Kolontar/Devecser (Hungary) and Corbeni (Romania) in the Context of Participative Reconstruction

      • Maria Bostenaru Dan

      Pages 259-291

   4. Earthquake Hazard Impact and Urban Planning—Conclusion and Recommendations for Further Work

      • Maria Bostenaru Dan, Iuliana Armaş, Alexandru-Ionuţ Petrişor, Alessia Cerqua, Cristina Olga Gociman, Agostino Goretti

      Pages 293-305

​The classical field dealing with earthquakes is called “earthquake engineering” and considered to be a branch of structural engineering. In projects dealing with strategies for earthquake risk mitigation, urban planning approaches are often neglected. Today interventions are needed on a city, rather than a building, scale. This work deals with the impact of earthquakes, including also a broader view on multihazards in urban areas. Uniquely among other works in the field, particular importance is given to urban planning issues, in conservation of heritage and emergency management. Multicriteria decision making and broad participation of those affected by disasters are included.

• Earthquake engineering
• Emergency housing
• GIS
• Historic cities
• Urban planning
• landscape/regional and urban planning

• Department of Urbanism, Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism, Bucharest, Romania

  Maria Bostenaru Dan

• Department of Geomorphology Faculty of Geography, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

  Iuliana Armas

• Civil Protection Department, Seismic and Volcanic Risk Office, Rome, Italy

  Agostino Goretti

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