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Engineers like me tend to focus on tangible decisions related to how buildings are constructed.
Technology can help determine where to make investments to save the most lives.
The cost represents a daunting challenge for developing nations like Morocco and Syria , as well as developed nations like Turkey .
San Francisco and Los Angeles have taken steps to make buildings safer and more resilient to earthquakes.
A policy directive during the Obama administration resulted in funds being focused on improving resilience throughout the U.S. To improve resilience, we have to be able to quantify and measure it.
The center I co-direct brings together specialists from 14 universities to determine how to measure a community's resilience to natural hazards.
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