ABSTRACT
Over the years, quantifying resilience to improve risk management has attracted remarkable attention due to the increasing number of natural and human-created disasters. The number of studies on resilient communities and recovery strategies related to developing countries is rather limited. The impact of natural hazards is higher in developing countries due to their economic, social, political, and cultural conditions. Generally, the main parameter to estimate resilience is downtime, that is, the time needed for calculating losses and planning the repair process. The objective of this chapter is to investigate the downtime of buildings damaged by floods in developing countries. In this work, the downtime is affected by three components: delays due to planning and finances, the time needed for repair building components, and the time required for restoring infrastructure systems. Delays and utility disruption are calculated based on available data from previous events; finally, downtime due to repairs is obtained through a survey prepared by the authors to get information about the recovery process of building components in developing countries. The proposed methodology can support decision-makers to learn about the state of their communities and help in risk management after the occurrence of possible floods in the future.
