Resilience, achieving rapid recovery so that society can bounce back from a disaster, is a desirable goal, but sometimes the focus should be only on safety. The 2023 Turkey/Syria earthquake illustrates the case where limited resources should be prioritized on safety, that is, the collapse prevention performance objective, rather than the significantly more expensive goal of post-earthquake functionality.
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