The frequency and severity of disasters over the last few decades have presented
unprecedented challenges for communities across the United States. In 2005, Hurricane …

Identifying Disaster resilience indices (DRI) for cities and communities remains a common
approach for assessing their structural ability and inherent capacity to cope with, recover …

The need for increased disaster resilience planning, especially at the community level, as
well as the need to address sustainability are clear; these dual objectives have been …

This article presents the current state-of-practice with respect to quantifying the total cost to
retrofit an existing building. In particular, we combine quantitative, qualitative, and heuristic …

This paper provides an accounting of where and when mitigation and recovery investments
have occurred in Louisiana, thereby generating a mitigation investment portfolio for the …

This paper reviews the state of the art in using benefit–cost analysis (BCA) to inform
earthquake risk reduction decisions by building owners and policymakers. The goal is to …

The continuing unsustainable pattern of human behavior creates enormous risks of
increasingly frequent and severe disasters impacting the complex social-ecological …

Front matter for Integrating Resilience and Sustainability into Civil Engineering Projects | Books |
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Disaster scholars and practitioners have argued that disaster risk reduction (DRR) is a
legitimate investment and there are multiple dividends that are associated with DRR. This …

Abstract The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published the
Community Resilience Planning Guide for Buildings and Infrastructure Systems (NIST SP …