Resilience of Cities

Resilience of Cities

Summary

Summary: This group aims to develop metrics of cities' resilience to various types of disaster, empirically verify this method using information from recent disasters, and compare resilience between a large number of global cities.

Contact: Richard Barnes (rbarnes@umn.edu)

Participants: Alex Ejedor, Laurence Brandenberger, Masa Haraguchi, Matthew Histen, Will Chang

Possibly relevant literature

"REDARS 2 Methodology and Software for Seismic Risk Analysis of Highway Systems" http://trid.trb.org/view.aspx?id=815535

Notes

Also when people (Brent I think?) were talking about locations you'd go in an emergency, I thought of the CERT volunteers: https://www.fema.gov/community-emergency-response-teams

Personnel

Will Chang williamkurtischang at gmail dot com Richard Barnes rbarnes at umn dot edu matthew histen (linguo42 at gmail dot com) penny mealy penny.mealy at gmail dot com Bernd Schneemann schneeman at gmail dot com Martina Steffen martinasemail at gmail dot com Laurence Brandenberger lenzi.m.b at gmail dot com Tirtha Bandy tirtha.bandy at csiro dot au Kleber Neves kleberna at gmail dot com Alejandro Tejedor alej.tejedor at gmail.com