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Acknowledgements

We have been generously supported in the preparation of this book by many friends and colleagues, who have read and commented on parts of the text, provided suggestions and illustrations and have been a valuable source of ideas and inspiration over many years.

We would like first to thank Yutaka Ohta whose dedication to earthquake risk reduction and foresight has been a constant motivation to us both. We would also like to acknowledge the late Laurie Baker and the late Paul Oliver, whose understanding of vernacular architecture and its value has been an inspiration for us.

In the preparation of this book, we greatly appreciate the comments and advice on particular chapters from Andrew Coburn, Antonios Pomonis, Svetlana Brzev, Edmund Booth, Mary Comerio and Rashmin Gunasekera.

We appreciate also the cooperation of Rajendra and Rupal Desai, Amod Dixit, Lucy Jones Toshitaka Katada, Randolph Langenbach, Tracy Monk and Edward Ng in reviewing our profiles of them and their work.

We thank our colleagues Hannah Baker and Weifeng Victoria Lee for help in the preparation of maps and diagrams used, as well as for reviewing parts of the manuscript, Yue Zhu for her help with preparation of a number of the images used, and Sandra Martinez‐Cuevas for supplying the diagram of fragility curves used in Chapter 5, based on her analysis of the Cambridge Earthquake Impact Database (CEQID).

We especially appreciate the painstaking work of Charlotte Airey in developing the building construction type and damage mode drawings used in Chapters 5 and 6.

We also greatly appreciate the contributions made by the global panel of experts who responded to the surveys of national successes and failures reported in Chapter 8. An acknowledgement to them is given at the end of that chapter. We would like to acknowledge the help of our colleagues at EEFIT, to Allan Brereton and the committee for their help in making available appropriate illustrations. And to our colleagues at Cambridge Architectural Research and the Department of Architecture at the University of Cambridge for their support of the book.

Finally, we would like to express our personal thanks to our families. From Emily: my gratitude to Alex and Clara for being the perfect lockdown husband and baby during this challenging year. From Robin: my thanks as always to Bridget for her unfailing support and wise counsel through this, and so many projects in the past.