Synonyms
Education sector; Examples; Policies; Policy; Progress; Schools; Seismic safety
Introduction
The case studies in this entry accompany the previous entry on School Seismic Safety and Mitigation. They tell the stories of a variety of national efforts to improve school seismic safety. The contributors to the case studies are engineers and parents, social workers, and international development specialists. They examine policy, advocacy, vulnerability, and solutions. They contain observations about stepwise progress, motivation, political will, technical approaches, innovations, moderate successes, and long roads ahead. There are more stories to be added. The intention is to provide school seismic safety advocates with both elements of inspiration and way points on a road map with many options to consider.
The case studies and their contributors are:
Algeria – Djilali Benouar
Canada – Tracy Monk
China – Sanjaya Bhatia
Colombia – Omar Dario Cardona
India (Delhi, Shimla) – Manu Gupta
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Alexander, D. et al. (2015). School Seismic Safety: Case Studies. In: Beer, M., Kougioumtzoglou, I.A., Patelli, E., Au, SK. (eds) Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35344-4_406
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