Cities in the develo** world are facing outstanding economic and human losses caused
by natural hazards such as earthquakes, and the amount of losses is affected by the quality …

Urban strategic planning and urban vulnerability assessment have increasingly become
important issues in both policy agenda and academia. However, a comprehensive review of …

Multi-hazard risk assessment of building portfolios is of primary importance in natural-hazard-
prone regions, particularly for the prioritisation of disaster risk reduction and resilience …

The new Italian building code, published in 2018 [MIT in NTC 2018: DM del Ministero delle
Infrastrutture e dei trasporti del 17/01/2018. Aggiornamento delle Norme Tecniche per le …

Access to education is a basic human right. It is the 4th of the 17 Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs) and education is strongly associated with poverty reduction. Providing …

Seismic fragility assessment provides a substantial tool for assessing the seismic resilience
of these buildings. However, using traditional numerical methods to derive fragility curves …

The Wireless sensor network (WSN) is spatially distributed sensors in an autonomous
manner to monitor physical environmental conditions. The Internet of things (IOT) is the …

The old buildings represent an important fraction of the urban fabric of the cities, which have
implicit societal issues, like safety. This work deals with the seismic vulnerability assessment …

The main purpose of risk reduction methodological and operational approaches is to protect
lives and properties against the impact of natural or industrial disaster. Although it is …

The criteria for zoning the surface fault rupture hazard (SFRH) along thrust faults are defined
by analysing the characteristics of the areas of coseismic surface faulting in thrust …