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Resilience Indicators

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This chapter analyzes and classifies the different resilience indicators available in literature, since there is no a widely accepted type of indicator that should be used to measure resilience. A list of existing resilience indicators is provided together with different classification methods, which are based on the hazard type, the temporal scale, the measurement method etc.

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Cimellaro, G.P. (2016). Resilience Indicators. In: Urban Resilience for Emergency Response and Recovery. Geotechnical, Geological and Earthquake Engineering, vol 41. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30656-8_3

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