the earthquake risk is an immense task by any standard. This paper provides a status report on the current earthquake risk … mitigation efforts taken by the museums in Turkey. It summarizes several projects that have been carried out over the past few … years to protect museums and its collections from earthquake damage and defines future actions that would mitigate …

earthquake; (2) the responses of college students illustrate that the stigma effect has less influence on people who have more … other cities; and (4) local governments should provide more support for hazard mitigation. Copyright Springer Science …

in the country is questionable. In the Marmara region the earthquake hazard is very high with a 2% annual probability of … occurrence of a magnitude 7+ earthquake on the main Marmara fault. These facts make the management of industrial risks imperative … for the reduction of socioeconomic losses. In this paper we present a first-order assessment of earthquake damage to the …

instability and natural disasters as the main potential risks. IDB's response to the 2010 earthquake was timely and relevant in … appropriate mitigation measures into the design of each operation; and (iv) intensifies efforts to ensure program monitoring and …

change mitigation, disaster preparedness, early response, and postdisaster reconstruction. …