| Resumo: |
The proposed research would explore community resilience in 18th century Portugal through an analysis of human response to the 1755 Lisbon earthquake-the largest European earthquake in the historical record, and one that precipitated profound changes in Portuguese society.
The proposed work would leverage prior efforts (particularly those undertaken by researchers in Portugal) to model the underlying dynamics of the earthquake, as well as its impacts, to produce stronger conceptual and empirical links between community capacity and ability to "bounce back" or otherwise recover from or withstand natural disasters.
The proposed work would cement research collaborations between faculty and students in engineering, social sciences and the humanities, located within universities in the USA (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York) and in Portugal (FLUP, UNL), as well as with personnel in Portugal's National Laboratory of Civil Engineeering. |