Resilient Infrastructures and Disaster Risk Reduction—An Introduction

This chapter summarizes the contents of the book volume on resilient infrastructures which discusses various relevant topics such as disaster resilience and infrastructure, risk reduction and structural measures, evidence-based approach for DRR case studies, numerical modeling and constructions methods, prevention methods and safety engineering, and cross-cutting issue in DRR and infrastructure. Basic definitions and information on resilient infrastructure are also included in the chapter.