In the recent years, the concept of resilience against natural hazards has been developed significantly. Considering the fact that the term of seismic resilience can describe the quality of the urban fabrics to respond and recover after occurrence of a seismic event and existence of required infrastructures for effective adaption; enormous efforts have been paid to the quantification and proposal of comprehensive resilience frameworks. Although there are precious achievements in the literature toward the provision of theoretical background for calculation of resilience as a time dependent vulnerability function; the lack of reliable data to verify these models persuade researchers to the application of indicator systems using descriptors to measure different dimensions of resilience. In this paper, a new indicator system is proposed to quantify the seismic resilience in urban areas focusing on the specific challenges to which the developing countries such as Iran are faced. An AHP based approach has been conducted to identify the most important factors that must be included in the model, as well as, their relative contributions through weighting process. The model utilizing 37 indicators, 13 thematic areas and 5 sectors has been developed and examined by implementation in two selected case studies from metropolitan of Tehran and Kish Island in Persian Gulf. The new model has been verified by comparing its ability to reproduce logical quantified resilience values calculated by an already-developed simple model in the literature. The results confirm the potential engagement of quantitative resilience evaluation as a practical step in the context of integrated disaster risk management.
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