Seda KUNDAK Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, Republic of

1. RESILIENCE: FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE
Seda Kundak

2. Space
Macro
(regional/National/Global)
Resilience: Capacity
to transform losses
Meso
into opportunities
Systemic
Resilience: Vulnerability:
Mitigation Vulnerability to
Capacities losses
Physical
Micro Vulnerability:
Vulnerability to
Stress
Time
Impact Emergency Recovery Reconstruction
ENSURE Project, 2011
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3. Resilience by definition (UNISDR)
The ability of a system, community or society exposed to
hazards to resist, absorb, accommodate to and recover
from the effects of a hazard in a timely and efficient
manner, including through the preservation and
restoration of its essential basic structures and functions

4. Environ. EQ
Social Economy Terror. Flood
CITY HAZARD
Networks Admin. Fire L.S.
Struc. ...
RISKS

5. Human
RESOURCES Finance
Know.
Creativity
PERFORM Innovation
Communic.

6. SUSTAINED by
self-organization,
increasing learning
and individual capacity
and rapid response
PERFORMED by
innovations, creativity,
flexibility, collaboration
, self-
reliance, feedbacks
TO HAVE
resource, redundanc
y, networks, informati
on, experience, know
ledge, diversity, robu
stness

7. Due to past experiences on disaster field, we may call a
settlement as resilient according to:
 the range of damage of a given settlement faced with an
natural/technological hazard
 the functioning ratio of services/emergencies after math
of a disaster
 the length of the recovery period
 the ratio of external assistance (national/international)
to recovery
 the efficiency of rehabilitation/mitigation process after
disaster

8. Key motivation to enhance Resilience
Big Shock
1999 Kocaeli and Duzce Earthquakes where more than
17.000 people died, 44.000 injured people and
approximately 10 billion USD of economic losses which
were equivalent around 4% of the country’s GDP.
Expected Big Shock
The increasing probability of a severe EQ which would
affect Istanbul where the exposed population reaches to
more than 20 million in Istanbul and the Marmara Region.

9. 1999 EQs are milestones
 TCIP
 Revision of Building Codes
 Microzonnation Studies
 Tsunami Scenarios
 Earthquake Master Plan of Istanbul
 Establishment of Coordination Center for Disasters
(IMM) & Disaster Management Center (IG)
 Public awareness campaigns
 NGO’s
 Establishment of AFAD (Disaster and Emergency
Management Presidency)
 ISMEP Project

10. Achievements of ISMEP
CONTRIBUTION TO RESILIENCE
A. Strengthening TO HAVE: provide resources and enhance networks
Emergency Management PERFORMED by: flexibility, collaboration, self-reliance and feed-backs
Capacity SUSTAINED by: increasing learning, individual capacity, rapid response
TO HAVE: redundancy, robustness, diversity
B. Seismic Risk Mitigation
PERFORMED by: innovations
for Priority Public Buildings
SUSTAINED by: maintenance
TO HAVE: networks, experience, knowledge, diversity, social capital
C. Enforcement of PERFORMED by: creativity, collaboration, feed-backs
Building Codes SUSTAINED by: increasing learning, individual capacity

11. in this Special Session
Istanbul Seismic Risk Mitigation and Emergency Preparedness
Project (ISMEP)
K. Gökhan Elgin – Istanbul Project Coordination Unit, Istanbul
Governorship
The ISMEP Activities on Raising Public Awareness, Education and
Volunteering
Mikdat Kadıoğlu – Istanbul Technical University
A Training Program for Disaster Mitigation through Urban Planning
Handan Türkoğlu – Istanbul Technical University
During the conference you may visit
ISMEP Exhibition
for further information

12. THANK YOU
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