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Learning from Earthquake Disasters
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Learning from Earthquake Disasters

S. Beaven, T. Wilson, L. Johnston, D. Johnston and R. Smith
Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering, pp.1295-1311
Springer
2015
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Abstract

The United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) defines disaster as the “serious disruption of the functioning of a community or society involving widespread human, material economic or environmental losses and impacts, which exceeds the ability of the affected community or society to cope using its own resources” (UNISDR 2014)...

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