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Resilience to Earthquake Disasters

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Adaptive; Community resilience; Economic resilience; Individual resilience; Organizational resilience; Planning; Preparedness; Recover; Recovery; Response; Vulnerability

Introduction

Resilience to earthquake disasters should be a goal of any community living in a seismically active landscape. Resilience is the ability to not only survive but also to thrive in the face of adversity – in this case an earthquake. There are many aspects to achieving a resilient community. This entry will first explore the concept of resilience and the use of the term by different disciplines. It then goes on to look at the different systemic layers of resilience that are needed to achieve resilience to earthquake disasters, using examples from the Christchurch, New Zealand, 2010/2011 earthquakes to illustrate. The final section of the entry looks at opportunities for improving resilience to earthquake disasters.

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  1. Resilient Organisations, University of Canterbury, 219 Wyndale Rd, RD1, 7580, Christchurch, New Zealand

    John Vargo & Erica Seville

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  1. John Vargo
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Correspondence to John Vargo .

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  1. Institute for Risk & Uncertainty, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

    Michael Beer

  2. Institute for Risk and Uncertainty, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

    Ioannis A. Kougioumtzoglou

  3. Institute for Risk & Uncertainty, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

    Edoardo Patelli

  4. Institute for Risk & Uncertainty, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

    Ivan Siu-Kui Au

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Vargo, J., Seville, E. (2014). Resilience to Earthquake Disasters. In: Beer, M., Kougioumtzoglou, I., Patelli, E., Au, IK. (eds) Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36197-5_339-1

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