Includes Bibliographical References and index.

Part I Methodology and disaster impact analysis -- 1. Blessing in Disguise – Long-Run Benefits of Urban Disasters/ Kamila Borsekova and Peter Nijkamp--2. Natural selection: Firm performance following a catastrophic earthquake/ Richard Fabling, Arthur Grimes and Levente Timar -- 3. What Factors Determine Economic Strength in the Restoration Process from Extreme Disasters?/ Masafumi Morisugi, Kazunori Nakajima and Naoki Sakamoto -- 4. Population Change and Economic Impacts on the Affected Region: The Case of Massive Earthquakes in Japan -Yoshifumi Ishikawa -- Part II Case studies on resilience -- 5. An AHP Based Methodology Towards Resilient Tourism Strategies: The Istanbul Case/ Ebru Seçkin -- 6. Resilience of Urban Systems in the Context of Urban Transformation: Lessons from Beykoz-İstanbul/ Tuba Inal Çekiç and Mehmet Doruk Özügül -- 7. Arctic urbanization: resilience in a condition of permanent instability. The case of Russian Arctic cities/ Nadezda Zamyatina and Ruslan Goncharov -- Part III Policy prevention and recovery analysis – simulations and scenario building-- 8. Urban Resilience and the politics of scale/ Mojgan Taheri Tafti -- 9. Multi-hazard, exposure and vulnerability in Italian municipalities/ Francesco Pagliacci and Margherita Russo --10. Urban Disasters Crisis Management Scenario Design and Crisis Management Simulation/ Karol Fabián, Lucia Rýsová and Michal Dobrík -- 11. Emerging Urban Dynamics and Labor Market Change: An Agent-Based Simulation of Recovery from a Disaster/ A. Yair Grinberger and Daniel Felsenstein

"This book addresses unexpected disasters and shocks in cities and urban systems by providing quantitative and qualitative tools for impact analysis and disaster management. Including environmental catastrophes, political turbulence and economic shocks, Resilience and Urban Disasters explores a large range of tumultuous events and key case studies to thoroughly cover these core areas. In particular, the socio-economic impacts on urban systems that are subject to disasters are explored." (from publisher page).