Scira Menoni

TL;DR: The merits and demerits of the new vulnerability and resilience assessment framework tool are discussed, and the results of the application to Sondrio indicate where data is currently missing, suggesting the kind of data, which will need to be gathered in future to achieve more complete assessments.

TL;DR: The analysis of direct, secondary and indirect effects of the Kobe earthquake suggests to substitute the concept of chain of losses and failures to the simple couple hazardous event-damages which is currently used.

TL;DR: In this paper, a new procedure for data collection and storage is proposed for post-event damage assessment in Italy, which can serve numerous purposes: to create a reliable and consistent database on the basis of which damage models can be defined or validated; and to supply a comprehensive scenario of flooding impacts according to which priorities can be identified during the emergency and recovery phase, and the compensation due to citizens from insurers or local authorities can be established.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a model to evaluate lifelines seismic vulnerability, considering physical, functional, and organizational factors as deeply interconnected one to the other, and the resulting assessment tool consists of a set of parameters measuring the response capacity of lifelines exposed to earthquakes.

TL;DR: This dissertation aims to provide a history of public administration in South Korea from 1989 to 2002, a period chosen in order to explore its roots as well as specific cases up to and including the year in which Kim Jong-un was elected president.