Seismic resilience: challenges and future directions

Earthquake engineering and resilience evaluation are advancing swiftly, propelled by enhanced data accessibility, superior computational resources, and heightened understanding of community-level vulnerabilities. The earlier chapters of this book provide a thorough approach for assessing seismic vulnerability and resilience across several dimensions, encompassing structure analysis, community functionality, and transportation network accessibility. Although these contributions establish a robust foundation, additional progress is essential and encouraging. This chapter delineates essential suggestions and proposes potential trajectories to inform the ongoing advancement of seismic resilience research and practice.