The environmental management literature suggests that resilience is key to managing
complex systems and reducing vulnerability resulting from uncertainty and unexpected …

As the spectre of climate change looms large, there is an increasing imperative to develop
comprehensive risk assessment tools. The purpose of this work is to evaluate the evolution …

The annual average economic losses due to various natural disasters are increasing
exponentially across the globe and have reached a mark of US $239.2 billion per year …

This paper presents a quantitative method to assess the resilience and the resilience-based
risk at the country level. The approach is inspired by the classical risk analysis, in which risk …

Assessing the true economic costs of floods is central to addressing their impacts, allocating
adequate resources for monitoring and preparedness, assessing their changes over time …

Recently, the US FEMA's standardized best-practice methodology Hazus for estimating
potential losses from common natural hazards, including earthquakes, flood, and hurricanes …

Measuring the performance of infrastructure networks is critical to the allocation of resources
before, during, and after a system's disruption. However, the lack of data often hinders the …

Risk evaluation and loss analysis is key in foreseeing the impact of disasters caused by
natural hazards and may contribute effectively in improving resilience in a community …

This paper presents a methodology to evaluate life safety risk of coastal communities
vulnerable to seismic and tsunami hazards. The work explicitly incorporates two important …

Despite the high historical losses attributed to flood events, Canadian flood mitigation efforts
have been hindered by a dearth of current, accessible flood extent/risk models and maps …