Earthquakes and other natural disasters are unpredictable, and often deadly. In developed and developing countries alike, the cost in human life and infrastructure is very high. The danger to schools is of particular concern, given the concentration of young people attending them, and schools' broader role in communities -- not the least of which is their common use as places of refuge after an earthquake or other disaster.

-Introduction by Grace Kenney
-Chapter 1. Risk Assessment and Strengthening Educational Facilities Against Natural Hazards by T. P. Tassios
-Chapter 2. The Role of Schools in Creating and Earthquake-Safer Environment by Rajib Shaw and Masami Kobayashi
-Chapter 3. The United Nations RADIUS Initiative (Risk Assessment Tools for Diagnosis of Urban Areas Against Seismic Disasters) by Etsuko Tsunozaki
-Chapter 4. Risk Prevention and School Building Management: Insights from the Storms in France in December 1999 by Jean-Marie Schleret
-Chapter 5. Design and Construction Regulations for School Buildings in Mexico by Gregorio Farias Longoria and Jaime de la Garza Reyna
-Chapter 6. Disaster Preparedness Education: Strategies for Turkey's Schools by Maria Petal, Ahmet Mete Isikara, and Remzi Sezgin
-Chapter 7. Earthquake Preparedness and Risk Mitigation: Lessons Learned in Iceland by Ragnar Sigbjornsson
-Chapter 8. The Restoration of School Buildings: Operational, Scientific, and Social Aspects by Manolis A. Baltas
-Chapter 9. Earthquake Safety Planning in Schools by Nikitas Papadopoulos
-Chapter 10. the Structural Restoration of Educational Buildings in Greece by George G. Penelis