Modeling Spatial and Economic Impacts of Disasters

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Yasuhide Okuyama, Stephanie E. Chang

      Pages 1-10

3. Conceptual and Modeling Issues

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11

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   2. Economic Principles, Issues, and Research Priorities in Hazard Loss Estimation

      • Adam Rose

      Pages 13-36

   3. Indirect Losses from Natural Disasters: Measurement and Myth

      • Harold C. Cochrane

      Pages 37-52

   4. Has September 11 Affected New York City’s Growth Potential?

      • Jason Bram, Andrew Haughwout, James Orr

      Pages 53-73

4. Economic Models

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75

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   2. Measuring Economic Impacts of Disasters: Interregional Input-Output Analysis Using Sequential Interindustry Model

      • Yasuhide Okuyama, Geoffrey J. D. Hewings, Michael Sonis

      Pages 77-101

   3. Geohazards in Social Systems: An Insurance Matrix Approach

      • Sam Cole

      Pages 103-118

   4. Computable General Equilibrium Modeling of Electric Utility Lifeline Losses from Earthquakes

      • Adam Rose, Gauri-Shankar Guha

      Pages 119-141

   5. The Fall of the Iron Curtain and the Evolution of German Regional Labour Markets: A Self-Organized Criticality Perspective

      • Aura Reggiani, Peter Nijkamp

      Pages 143-161

   6. Risk Perception, Location Choice and Land-use Patterns under Disaster Risk: Long-term Consequences of Information Provision in a Spatial Economy

      • Hirokazu Tatano, Kentaro Yamaguchi, Norio Okada

      Pages 163-177

5. Integrative Models

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179

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   2. The Dynamics of Recovery: A Framework

      • Stephanie E. Chang, Scott B. Miles

      Pages 181-204

   3. Earthquake Disaster Mitigation for Urban Transportation Systems: An Integrated Methodology that Builds on the Kobe and Northridge Experiences

      • Peter Gordon, James E. Moore II, Harry W. Richardson, Masanobu Shinozuka, Donghwan An, Sungbin Cho

      Pages 205-232

   4. Analysis of Economic Impacts of an Earthquake on Transportation Network

      • Jungyul Sohn, Geoffrey J. D. Hewings, Tschangho John Kim, Jong Sung Lee, Sung-Gheel Jang

      Pages 233-256

   5. Benefit Cost Analysis for Renewal Planning of Existing Electric Power Equipment

      • Yoshiharu Shumuta

      Pages 257-287

   6. Evaluating the Disaster Resilience of Power Networks and Grids

      • Masanobu Shinozuka, Stephanie E. Chang

      Pages 289-310

6. Back Matter

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This volume is dedicated to the memory of Barclay G. Jones, Professor of City and Regional Planning and Regional Science at Cornell University. Over a decade ago, Barclay took on a fledgling area of study - economic modeling of disasters - and nurtured its early development. He served as the social science program director at the National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (NCEER), a university consortium sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the Federal Emergency Management Agency of the United States. In this capacity, Barclay shepherded and attracted a number of regional scientists to the study of disasters. He organized a conference, held in the ill-fated World Trade Center in September 1995, on "The Economic Consequences of Earthquakes: Preparing for the Unexpected. " He persistently advocated the importance of social science research in an establishment dominated by less-than-sympathetic natural scientists and engineers. In 1993, Barclay organized the first of a series of sessions on "Measuring Regional Economic Effects of Unscheduled Events" at the North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI). This unusual nomenclature brought attention to the challenge that disasters -largely unanticipated, often sudden, and always disorderly - pose to the regional science modeling tradition. The sessions provided an annual forum for a growing coalition of researchers, where previously the literature had been fragmentary, scattered, and episodic. Since Barclay's unexpected passing in 1997, we have continued this effort in his tradition.

• Disasters
• Economic and Engineering Models
• Hazards
• Infrastructure Systems
• Natural Disaster
• Urban Disaster Recovery
• model
• modeling
• networks
• transportation
• transportation systems
• landscape/regional and urban planning

From the reviews:

"Modelling Spatial and Economic Impacts of Disasters is a new book published in 2004 … . The book is a sound foundational text … . is best described as an extensive, well-organised literature review of disaster impact modelling research. … the book is a good synopsis of fundamental concepts, current research and future directions. … In addition to disaster and emergency modelling specialists, the book is recommended to risk management professionals, policy makers, senior managers and researchers in emergency management related roles." (Ron Shamir, The Australian Journal of Emergency Management, Vol. 20 (1), February, 2005)

• Regional Research Institute, West Virginia University, Morgantown, USA

  Yasuhide Okuyama

• School of Community and Regional Planning, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

  Stephanie E. Chang

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