This study presents a novel risk-based decision support system for helping disaster risk
management planners select the best locations for emergency shelters after an earthquake …

The purpose of this study is to assess the vulnerability of urban blocks to earthquakes for
Tehran as a city built on geological faults using an artificial neural network—multi-layer …

Nowadays, predicting spatial and temporal changes of surface urban heat islands (SUHIs) is
both a demanding challenge and a subject of interest for researchers working on urban …

Urban resilience is the key to comprehensively advancing China's urbanization process.
Urban resilience assessment is a necessary way to monitor the current state of urban …

Site selection and allocation of manufacturing and processing facilities are essential to
sustainable economic productivity of a given product while preserving soil, the environment …

Shopping centers are among the major economic and commercial places in cities in terms of
social function, urban sustainability, environment, etc. Therefore, it is crucial to determine …

Since Turkiye is in a seismically risky zone, earthquakes are common in the country and
cause social and economic losses. The resilience of Turkiye to earthquakes has come to the …

This study investigates social resilience to urban fires in the historic center of Guimarães,
Portugal, focusing on preventive, adaptive, coping, and recovery capacities. Online and face …

Tabriz, a key economic and political hub in Iran, is highly susceptible to a range of natural
hazards, particularly earthquakes and landslides. This study develops a multi-hazard risk …

During the rapid outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic, the construction of the Thunder God
Mountain Hospital (TGMH) in a harsh environment significantly lowered the burden of …