|
Preface |
|
Executive
summary |
|
Reader's guide |
|
Introduction: Acknowledging the importance of improving earthquake
safety in schools |
|
|
|
|
|
Part 1:
|
Recognising the Obstacles to Improving Seismic Safety of
Schools |
|
1. |
Earthquake vulnerability of schools buildings in Algeria |
|
2. |
Learning about seismic safety of schools from community
experience in Berkeley, California |
|
3. |
Seismic safety of schools in Italy |
|
4. |
Obstacles to improving seismic safety of school buildings in
Turkey |
|
5. |
Seismic risk in schools: The Venezuelan project |
|
6. |
Towards effective mitigation and emergency response in the
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia |
|
7. |
Making schools safer: The New Zealand experience |
|
8. |
Damage in schools in the 1998 Faial earthquake in the Azores
Islands, Portugal |
|
9. |
Earthquakes and educational infrastructure policy in Mexico |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Part 2: |
Defining Seismic Safety
Principles for Schools |
|
10. |
Fundamental concepts and principles for assuring acceptable
performance of schools and the education system |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Part 3: |
Assessing Vulnerability and
Risks to Schools and Other Public Buildings |
|
11. |
Building code effectiveness grading schedule: Measuring the
community's commitment to adopting and enforcing building
codes |
|
12. |
Translating earthquake hazard mitigation measures from one
country to another: A case study |
|
13. |
Seismic risk mitigation practices in school buildings in
Istanbul, Turkey |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Part 4: |
Identifying Strategies and Programmes for Improving School
Safety |
|
14. |
A
brief review of school typologies in Italy; Specific
vulnerability and possible strategies for seismic
retrofitting |
|
15. |
Implementing school seismic safety programmes in developing
countries |
|
16. |
Supporting local seismic experts: Experiences in Nepal and
India |
|
17. |
Evaluating earthquake retrofitting measures for schools: A
cost-benefit analysis |
|
18. |
Strengthening school buildings to resist earthquakes:
Progress in European countries |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Part 5: |
Taking an Initial Step
Towards Improving Earthquake Safety in Schools: Ad Hoc Expert's
Group Report on Earthquake Safety in Schools |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Contributors to this
publication |
|
|