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Cities are composed of complex and interdependent social and physical infrastructure systems, which can be affected by natural hazards in several ways. Within EPICentre we are undertaking research to:
- Shed new light on natural hazard characteristics and how they are modified by their interaction with the built environment;
- Better characterise the response of individual infrastructure systems to single and multiple hazards;
- Study the change in vulnerability that occurs in cities when exposure changes (e.g. with urban development);
- Investigate how interdependency of infrastructure systems affect the vulnerability of cities to natural hazards, and their ability to respond to these events;
- Understand the effectiveness of large scale mitigation interventions on city vulnerability to natural hazards;
This works spans a number of different main and triggered hazards, and we are expanding our research portfolio to look at how people act within a city in the event of natural hazards and the role of hazard forecasts.
EPICentre projects in this field
- Improving the Disaster Resilience of School Infrastructure
- Resilience of Schools to Extreme Coastal Flooding Loads (ReSCOOL)
- Gem Vulnerability Estimation Methods
- Crust
- Structural Assessment Methods for use in the Seismic Risk Evaluation of Countries in Central America and the Caribbean
- Future Cities: Science to Action for Building Resilience of Urban Communities to Climate Induced Physical Hazards
- Seismic Performance & Vulnerability Assessment of Bare & Infilled Steel Frame Structures
- Disaster Resilient Cities: Forecasting Local Level Climate Extremes and Physical Hazards for Kuala Lumpur
- Groundwater and Flood Risk in the London Rail Infrastructure Network: Building Resilience into Existing Masonry Infrastructure Assets
- Seismic risk assessment of complex urban critical infrastructure for the insurance sector
- Earthquake Impact on Complex Infrastructure Networks
- Forecasts and Warnings at Active Volcanoes