EDISA

Public education is considered a fundamental right. Nonetheless, it is often disrupted by the occurrence of natural hazard events, as the school infrastructure may get damaged or the schools may get disconnected by structural damage of bridges, or by the inability to transit over blocked roads. In this context, this tool evaluates the risk of disruption to education caused by earthquakes and floods and their recovery trajectory, affecting both the physical school infrastructure in a region, and the road network that serves it. The tool integrates the physical vulnerability of the assets with the community’s social vulnerability parameter by employing a combined Bayesian Network- Monte Carlo- Agent-Based model, as both these factors contribute to the operational capacity. The tool is also evaluates the effectiveness of selected retrofitting strategies in school buildings and bridges in reducing the education interruption time.

The tool repository contains case-specific codes for the specific system of schools and transportation network in the Dominican Republic, details of which are published here, along with the model assumptions and analysis results: D’Ayala, Fernández, Parammal Vatteri et al. (2025), Evaluating education disruption by integrating school and road infrastructure system analysis, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2025.105588

To request full access to the Tool to adapt and apply for problems of your interest, please contact us at  UNESCO-chair-DRRER@ucl.ac.uk