Jiuping Xu is Associate Vice President, Dean of the Business School and Director of the Emergency Management Institute at Sichuan University. He has published more than 700 peer-reviewed journal articles and over 40 books in Springer, Taylor & Francis, Wiley, Elsevier, Cambridge University Press, and others.Yi Lu is a professor in the Business School at Sichuan University. He is the Vice Director of the Emergency Management Institute at Sichuan University, and an editorial board member of Environmental Hazards. His research interests focus on disaster resilience and post-earthquake recovery and reconstruction.Edmund Penning-Rowsell is Emeritus Professor of Geography and Pro Vice-Chancellor at Middlesex University, where he founded the Flood Hazard Research Centre in 1970. Since 2010 he has been a visiting academic at the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford. He is also the editor of the journal Environmental Hazards (Taylor & Francis).

• Introduction: Towards an earthquake-resilient world: from post-disaster reconstruction to pre-disaster prevention 1. The geo-genetic status of earthquake-related hazards and the role of human and policy dimensions in impact mitigation 2. Understanding the causes of vulnerabilities for enhancing social-physical resilience: lessons from the Wenchuan earthquake 3. Assessing the capabilities of resilience against earthquake in the city of Yasuj, Iran 4. The role of schools in helping communities copes with earthquake disasters: the case of the 2010–2011 New Zealand earthquakes 5. Devastating earthquakes facilitating civil societies in developing countries: across-national analysis 6. Public participation in NGO-oriented communities for disaster prevention and mitigation (N-CDPM) in the Longmen Shan fault area during the Wenchuan and Lushan earthquake periods 7. Earthquake preparedness of households in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: a perceptual study 8. Learning lessons from the 2011 Van Earthquake to enhance healthcare surge capacity in Turkey 9. Redistributing vulnerabilities: house reconstruction following the 2006 Central Java earthquake

Jiuping Xu is Associate Vice President, Dean of the Business School and Director of the Emergency Management Institute at Sichuan University. He has published more than 700 peer-reviewed journal articles and over 40 books in Springer, Taylor & Francis, Wiley, Elsevier, Cambridge University Press, and others.Yi Lu is a professor in the Business School at Sichuan University. He is the Vice Director of the Emergency Management Institute at Sichuan University, and an editorial board member of Environmental Hazards. His research interests focus on disaster resilience and post-earthquake recovery and reconstruction.Edmund Penning-Rowsell is Emeritus Professor of Geography and Pro Vice-Chancellor at Middlesex University, where he founded the Flood Hazard Research Centre in 1970. Since 2010 he has been a visiting academic at the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford. He is also the editor of the journal Environmental Hazards (Taylor & Francis).

• Introduction: Towards an earthquake-resilient world: from post-disaster reconstruction to pre-disaster prevention 1. The geo-genetic status of earthquake-related hazards and the role of human and policy dimensions in impact mitigation 2. Understanding the causes of vulnerabilities for enhancing social-physical resilience: lessons from the Wenchuan earthquake 3. Assessing the capabilities of resilience against earthquake in the city of Yasuj, Iran 4. The role of schools in helping communities copes with earthquake disasters: the case of the 2010–2011 New Zealand earthquakes 5. Devastating earthquakes facilitating civil societies in developing countries: across-national analysis 6. Public participation in NGO-oriented communities for disaster prevention and mitigation (N-CDPM) in the Longmen Shan fault area during the Wenchuan and Lushan earthquake periods 7. Earthquake preparedness of households in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: a perceptual study 8. Learning lessons from the 2011 Van Earthquake to enhance healthcare surge capacity in Turkey 9. Redistributing vulnerabilities: house reconstruction following the 2006 Central Java earthquake

Jiuping Xu is Associate Vice President, Dean of the Business School and Director of the Emergency Management Institute at Sichuan University. He has published more than 700 peer-reviewed journal articles and over 40 books in Springer, Taylor & Francis, Wiley, Elsevier, Cambridge University Press, and others.Yi Lu is a professor in the Business School at Sichuan University. He is the Vice Director of the Emergency Management Institute at Sichuan University, and an editorial board member of Environmental Hazards. His research interests focus on disaster resilience and post-earthquake recovery and reconstruction.Edmund Penning-Rowsell is Emeritus Professor of Geography and Pro Vice-Chancellor at Middlesex University, where he founded the Flood Hazard Research Centre in 1970. Since 2010 he has been a visiting academic at the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford. He is also the editor of the journal Environmental Hazards (Taylor & Francis).

• Introduction: Towards an earthquake-resilient world: from post-disaster reconstruction to pre-disaster prevention 1. The geo-genetic status of earthquake-related hazards and the role of human and policy dimensions in impact mitigation 2. Understanding the causes of vulnerabilities for enhancing social-physical resilience: lessons from the Wenchuan earthquake 3. Assessing the capabilities of resilience against earthquake in the city of Yasuj, Iran 4. The role of schools in helping communities copes with earthquake disasters: the case of the 2010–2011 New Zealand earthquakes 5. Devastating earthquakes facilitating civil societies in developing countries: across-national analysis 6. Public participation in NGO-oriented communities for disaster prevention and mitigation (N-CDPM) in the Longmen Shan fault area during the Wenchuan and Lushan earthquake periods 7. Earthquake preparedness of households in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: a perceptual study 8. Learning lessons from the 2011 Van Earthquake to enhance healthcare surge capacity in Turkey 9. Redistributing vulnerabilities: house reconstruction following the 2006 Central Java earthquake