Preface

Resilience is increasingly used as an approach for understanding the dynamics of natural hazards. This book presents research in the field of resilience and provides an overview of its development to date, which draws on the wide literature on engineering aspects, ecological science, social science, social-environmental system, and natural hazards. The book is addressed to researchers and practitioners on the subject as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students and other experts and newcomers seeking more information about the state of the art, new challenges, innovative solutions, and new trends and developments in these areas.

The first section provides recent research on risk and crisis management toward a more resilient society. It includes chapters on disaster management; disaster hazards, causes, and impacts; disaster-resilient rescue; risk management; disaster risk reduction; and disaster relief.

The second section focuses on more detailed simulations and modeling in terms of natural hazards and includes chapters on mitigation of earthquakes using the latest design tools, performance-based design for healthcare facilities, evaluation of liquefaction-induced settlements, modeling extreme damages from natural disasters, and effects of earthquakes on buildings.

**II**

**Chapter 8 129**

**Chapter 9 151**

**Chapter 10 163**

**Chapter 11 175**

**Chapter 12 193**

Simulation and Modeling **209**

**Chapter 13 211**

**Chapter 14 231**

**Chapter 15 257**

**Chapter 16 273**

**Chapter 17 299**

*by Wilfrid Gbenankpon Djima, Abdullah Can Zulfikar and Cüneyt Tüzün*

Evaluation of Liquefaction-Induced Settlement Using Random Forest and REP Tree Models: Taking Pohang Earthquake as a Case of Illustration

On Modelling Extreme Damages from Natural Disasters in Kenya

Effects of Earthquakes on Buildings in the Ibero-Maghrebian Region

Households' Adaptation to Climate Change Hazards in Semi-Arid Region

Adoption of Conservation Agriculture as a Disaster Risk Reduction Tool

*by Jestina Chineka, Nthaduleni Samuel Nethengwe and Hector Chikoore*

Natural Hazards - Impacts, Adjustments and Resilience

Performance-Based Design for Healthcare Facilities

*by Mahmood Ahmad, Xiaowei Tang and Feezan Ahmad*

*by Musa Yusuf Jimoh, Peter Bikam, Hector Chikoore, James Chakwizira* 

of Mopani, South Africa

*and Emaculate Ingwani*

in Chivi District, Zimbabwe

*by Yusen Ye and Hong Yan*

*by Jaime Santos-Reyes*

**Section 2**

Flooding and Its Impact on Education *by Edson Munsaka and Sebia Mutasa*

Disaster Relief Supply Management

The Risk of Tsunamis in Mexico

*by Bhushan Mohan Raisinghani*

*by Carolyne Ogutu and Antony Rono*

*by José Antonio Aparicio Florido*

**Dr. Ehsan Noroozinejad Farsangi** Department of Earthquake and Geotechnical Engineering, Graduate University of Advanced Technology, Kerman, Iran

**1**

Section 1

Risk and Crisis Management

Section 1
