This paper presents a conceptual framework to define seismic resilience of communities and quantitative measures of resilience that can be useful for a coordinated research effort focusing on enhancing this resilience. This framework relies on the complementary measures of resilience: “Reduced failure probabilities,” “Reduced consequences from failures,” and “Reduced time to recovery.” The framework also includes quantitative measures of the “ends” of robustness and rapidity, and the “means” of resourcefulness and redundancy, and integrates those measures into the four dimensions of community resilience—technical, organizational, social, and economic—all of which can be used to quantify measures of resilience for various types of physical and organizational systems. Systems diagrams then establish the tasks required to achieve these objectives. This framework can be useful in future research to determine the resiliency of different units of analysis and systems, and to develop resiliency targets and detailed analytical procedures to generate these values.
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November 01, 2003
A Framework to Quantitatively Assess and Enhance the Seismic Resilience of Communities
Michel Bruneau, M.EERI;
Michel Bruneau, M.EERI
a)
Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research, 4 Red Jacket Quadrangle, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14261
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Stephanie E. Chang, M.EERI;
Stephanie E. Chang, M.EERI
b)
Department of Geography, Box 353550, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-3550
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Ronald T. Eguchi, M.EERI;
Ronald T. Eguchi, M.EERI
c)
ImageCat Inc, Union Bank of California Building, 400 Oceangate, Suite 305, Long Beach, CA 90802
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George C. Lee, M.EERI;
George C. Lee, M.EERI
a)
Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research, 4 Red Jacket Quadrangle, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14261
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Thomas D. O'Rourke, M.EERI;
Thomas D. O'Rourke, M.EERI
d)
Department of Civil Engineering, 273 Hollister Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-3501
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Andrei M. Reinhorn, M.EERI;
Andrei M. Reinhorn, M.EERI
e)
Department of Civil, Structural & Environmental Engineering, 231 Ketter Hall, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260
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Masanobu Shinozuka;
Masanobu Shinozuka
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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, E/4150 Engineering Gateway, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697
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Kathleen Tierney, M.EERI;
Kathleen Tierney, M.EERI
g
Natural Hazards Center, 482 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0482
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William A. Wallace;
William A. Wallace
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Department of Sciences and Engineering Systems, 110 8th St., Center for Industrial Innovation, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180
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Detlof von Winterfeldt
Detlof von Winterfeldt
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School of Policy, Planning, and Development, University of Southern California, Mail Code 0041, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0041
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Michel Bruneau, M.EERI
a)
Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research, 4 Red Jacket Quadrangle, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14261
Stephanie E. Chang, M.EERI
b)
Department of Geography, Box 353550, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-3550
Ronald T. Eguchi, M.EERI
c)
ImageCat Inc, Union Bank of California Building, 400 Oceangate, Suite 305, Long Beach, CA 90802
George C. Lee, M.EERI
a)
Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research, 4 Red Jacket Quadrangle, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14261
Thomas D. O'Rourke, M.EERI
d)
Department of Civil Engineering, 273 Hollister Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-3501
Andrei M. Reinhorn, M.EERI
e)
Department of Civil, Structural & Environmental Engineering, 231 Ketter Hall, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260
Masanobu Shinozuka
f
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, E/4150 Engineering Gateway, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697
Kathleen Tierney, M.EERI
g
Natural Hazards Center, 482 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0482
William A. Wallace
h
Department of Sciences and Engineering Systems, 110 8th St., Center for Industrial Innovation, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180
Detlof von Winterfeldt
i
School of Policy, Planning, and Development, University of Southern California, Mail Code 0041, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0041
Publisher: Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
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01 Jun 2020
Online ISSN: 1944-8201
Print ISSN: 8755-2930
© 2003 Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
Earthquake Spectra (2003) 19 (4): 733–752.
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Michel Bruneau, Stephanie E. Chang, Ronald T. Eguchi, George C. Lee, Thomas D. O'Rourke, Andrei M. Reinhorn, Masanobu Shinozuka, Kathleen Tierney, William A. Wallace, Detlof von Winterfeldt; A Framework to Quantitatively Assess and Enhance the Seismic Resilience of Communities. Earthquake Spectra 2003;; 19 (4): 733–752. doi: https://doi.org/10.1193/1.1623497
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