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A critical route for documenting the seismic vulnerability on Mexican historical cities on GIS databases (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Ramírez Eudave, R., Ferreira, T. M., & Romeu, V. (2022). A critical route for documenting the seismic vulnerability on Mexican historical cities on GIS databases. In REHABEND 2022 Congress (1078-1087)

Caracterizar la vulnerabilidad de las construcciones históricas en el contexto de acciones sísmicas es una actividad primordial para su salvaguarda. A pesar de las numerosas experiencias para evaluar construcciones históricas, la aplicación de evalua... Read More about A critical route for documenting the seismic vulnerability on Mexican historical cities on GIS databases.

Assessment and mitigation of the fire vulnerability and risk in the historic city centre of Aveiro, Portugal (2022)
Journal Article
Silva, D., Rodrigues, H., & Ferreira, T. M. (2022). Assessment and mitigation of the fire vulnerability and risk in the historic city centre of Aveiro, Portugal. Fire, 5(5), 173. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire5050173

Identifying fire risk in urban centres is instrumental for supporting informed decision-making and outlining efficient vulnerability mitigation strategies. Historic centres are particularly complex in this regard due to the high density of combustibl... Read More about Assessment and mitigation of the fire vulnerability and risk in the historic city centre of Aveiro, Portugal.

Fire risk assessment and safety management in buildings and urban spaces—A new section of Fire Journal (2022)
Journal Article
Ferreira, T. M. (2022). Fire risk assessment and safety management in buildings and urban spaces—A new section of Fire Journal. Fire, 5(3), 74. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire5030074

It is a great pleasure to assume the role of Editor-in-Chief for the “Fire Risk Assessment and Safety Management in Buildings and Urban Spaces” Section of Fire (https://www.mdpi.com/ journal/fire/sections/fire_risk_assessment_safety_management_buildi... Read More about Fire risk assessment and safety management in buildings and urban spaces—A new section of Fire Journal.

Urban seismic risk assessment and damage estimation: Case of Rif Buildings (North of Morocco) (2022)
Journal Article
Cherif, S. E., Chaaraoui, A., Chourak, M., Oualid Mghazli, M., El Omari, A., & Ferreira, T. M. (2022). Urban seismic risk assessment and damage estimation: Case of Rif Buildings (North of Morocco). Buildings, 12(6), 742. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings12060742

The interest in assessing seismic risk in earthquake-prone regions in Morocco has been increasing over recent decades, to a large extent due to the substantial amount of damage imposed by recent events and because the population in these regions has... Read More about Urban seismic risk assessment and damage estimation: Case of Rif Buildings (North of Morocco).

Exposure and physical vulnerability indicators to assess seismic risk in urban areas: A step towards a multi-hazard risk analysis (2022)
Journal Article
Xofi, M., Domingues, J. C., Santos, P. P., Pereira, S., Oliveira, S. C., Reis, E., …Ferreira, T. M. (2022). Exposure and physical vulnerability indicators to assess seismic risk in urban areas: A step towards a multi-hazard risk analysis. Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk, 13(1), 1154-1177. https://doi.org/10.1080/19475705.2022.2068457

Understanding the impacts of multi-hazard risk in urban areas is a fundamental step towards the adoption of resilience-enhancement and disaster prevention strategies, underpinning institutional adjustments aimed at improving the capacity of the autho... Read More about Exposure and physical vulnerability indicators to assess seismic risk in urban areas: A step towards a multi-hazard risk analysis.

Parameter-based seismic vulnerability assessment of Mexican historical buildings: Insights, suitability, and uncertainty treatment (2022)
Journal Article
Ramírez Eudave, R., Ferreira, T. M., & Vicente, R. (2022). Parameter-based seismic vulnerability assessment of Mexican historical buildings: Insights, suitability, and uncertainty treatment. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 74, Article 102909. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.102909

The seismic vulnerability assessment of large sets of constructions is meaningful for anticipating post-earthquake scenarios in the context of loss prevention and resilience. These activities must overcome several difficulties related to the size and... Read More about Parameter-based seismic vulnerability assessment of Mexican historical buildings: Insights, suitability, and uncertainty treatment.

Assessing and Managing Risk in Historic Urban Areas: Current Trends and Future Research Directions (2022)
Journal Article
Ferreira, T. M., & Ramírez Eudave, R. (2022). Assessing and Managing Risk in Historic Urban Areas: Current Trends and Future Research Directions. Frontiers in Earth Science, 10(March 2022), Article 847959. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.847959

Historic urban centres are, almost by definition, risk-prone areas. The buildings in the historical sites are often highly vulnerable to natural and human-made hazards, not only due to their construction and material characteristics but also because... Read More about Assessing and Managing Risk in Historic Urban Areas: Current Trends and Future Research Directions.

On the use of web mapping platforms to support the seismic vulnerability assessment of old urban areas (2022)
Journal Article
Columbro, C., Eudave, R. R., Ferreira, T. M., Lourenço, P. B., & Fabbrocino, G. (2022). On the use of web mapping platforms to support the seismic vulnerability assessment of old urban areas. Remote Sensing, 14(6), Article 1424. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14061424

European countries are affected by various levels of seismic hazard, including many areas with medium to high seismicity. Heavy damage over large areas has been observed in past earthquakes in these countries, particularly in masonry buildings locate... Read More about On the use of web mapping platforms to support the seismic vulnerability assessment of old urban areas.

Methods, techniques, and tools for assessing the seismic vulnerability of building stocks (2022)
Book Chapter
Ferreira, T. M., & Bernardini, G. (2022). Methods, techniques, and tools for assessing the seismic vulnerability of building stocks. In Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Civil Engineering Structures At Multiple Scales: From Single Buildings to Large-Scale Assessment (229-247). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-824071-7.00009-3

The task of selecting the most appropriate method or technique to assess the seismic vulnerability of large building stocks must be based on a proper balance between the simplicity of the tool to be used and the accuracy of the results, knowing that... Read More about Methods, techniques, and tools for assessing the seismic vulnerability of building stocks.