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Displaying 105 of about 153 resultsThis Working Paper presents a cross-directorate report on the economic, budgetary, regulatory and urban policy implications of the earthquakes which struck the Marmara and Bolu areas of Turkey on 17 August and 12 November 1999. The earthquakes caused high casualties and significant material damage to property, with severe effects on economic activity. T…
In late August and early September 1999, a team of structural engineers representing the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research (PEER) Center travelled to Turkey to study damaged and undamaged buildings, bridges, industrial facilities, and lifeline infrastructure affected by the August 17, 1999, Izmit earthquake. The PEER reconnaissance team sought to…
The Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami 26 December 2004 (the “Tsunami”) severely affected the coastal areas of the Indonesian province of Aceh, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Southern India, the Maldives, Malaysia, and Myanmar, taking over 250,000 lives, leaving millions homeless or displaced and causing enormous destruction and suffering. In the aftermath of th…
The regional strategic framework presented here has been developed in support of recovery and rehabilitation efforts following the earthquake and subsequent tsunami waves that originated off the west coast of northern Sumatra on the 26 December 2004 and that caused extensive damage to coastal communities in the region. Estimates of the human cost are ju…
This study examines the economic and social consequences of the 17 August 1999 earthquake, known as the Izmit earthquake, which affected a third of Turkey's total population and caused substantial human and material losses.
The first chapter looks at the economic environment in Turkey before the Izmit earthquake and the place which the stricken region…
This paper summarises the findings of a mission that conducted damage assessment following an earthquake in Turkey and Greece in October 2020, which was followed by a tsunami. The epicentre was some 14 km northeast of Avlakia on Samos Island, and 25 km southwest of Seferihisar, Turkey, triggering also a tsunami. The event has been followed by…
The International Recovery Platform Herald (IRP Herald) is the periodic newsletter of the International Recovery Platform. The IRP Herald reports on IRP activities and serves as the knowledge report for the annual International Recovery Forum, as well as recovery-related content from other major conferences.
IRP Herald Volume 32 is the knowledge report…
This month’s Manchester Briefing discusses co-production as a strategic method for the design and delivery of societal resilience. Building on TMB Issue 33 we detail the opportunities, principles, and techniques of successful co-production. Co-production is a popular approach to service design and delivery and has been found to exist in all se…
This article uses sentiment analysis (SA) to assess post-disaster recovery on the 10th anniversary of L’Aquila’s earthquake using Twitter data. We have analyzed 4349 tweets from 4 to 10 April 2019 with the hashtag: #L’Aquila that we have obtained from a third-party vendor. The polarity is first defined using a supervised classification based on experts’…
This week’s Manchester Briefing (Issue 40) launches the University of Manchester searchable database of international lessons on Recovery and Renewal. The new database offers a searchable function for all of the 575 individual lessons that have been shared through The Manchester Brief since April 2020. The brief details the database and shares updates o…
This month’s Manchester Briefing offers an early definition of ‘whole-of-society resilience’ which aims to support the development of a shared understanding of this new term. The Briefing explores the meaning of ‘whole-of society’ resilience and the implications of whole-of-society resilience for emergency planning in the UK+.
Also, as we beg…
This month’s The Manchester Briefing outlines a methodology to self-evaluate Recovery plans and Renewal strategies. The self-reflection methodology can be used in conjunction with ISO/TS 22393 featured in TMB Issue 39 and its operational version featured in TMB Issue 49. By reflecting on their response to COVID-19, organisations can identify those strat…
This report from the UK House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee provides an overview of the risks of flooding on homes and businesses in the UK. Over 5.2 million homes and businesses in England are currently at risk from flooding, according to the Environment Agency, and more will become threatened in the future. The Climate Change Committee has…
This week’s Manchester Briefing details some COVID-19 topics that are being worked on across three research areas: Communities; Systems; Recovery, Renewal, Resilience Frameworks. The briefing summarises six research topics and details how these aim to enhance understanding of Recovery, Renewal, Resilience in the context of COVID-19. The b…
These guidelines are oriented to the needs of the decision-makers and provide a description of the range of mitigation options that need to be considered when making efforts to reduce losses from flooding. They are designed to introduce the reader to various measures to mitigate the impacts associated with floods. Includes four case-studies annexed: 1)…