Introduction

Chapter 1. Earthquake vulnerability of school buildings in Algeria
Fouad Bendimerad

Chapter 2. Learning about seismic safety of schools from community experience in Berkeley, California
Arrietta Chakos

Chapter 3. Seismic safety of schools in Italy
Mauro Dolce

Chapter 4. Obstacles to improving seismic safety of school buildings in Turkey
Polat Gülkan
Chapter 4. Appendix. Obstacles to improving seismic safety of school buildings in Turkey
Polat Gülkan

Chapter 5. Seismic risk in schools: The Venezuelan project
Oscar López, Julio J. Hernández, Gianina Del Re, José Puig and Magnolia Santamaría

Chapter 6. Towards effective mitigation and emergency response in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Zoran Milutinovic and Jean-Pierre Massué

Chapter 7. Making schools safer: The New Zealand experience
Brian Mitchell

Chapter 8. Damage in schools in the 1998 Faial earthquake in the Azores Islands, Portugal
Jorge Miguel Proença

Chapter 9. Earthquakes and educational infrastructure policy in Mexico
Jaime de la Garza Reyna