Disasters and economic damage : macro, meso and micro approaches

Disasters and economic damage : macro, meso and micro approaches / Guest editor Anne van der Veen.

Tsunamis, droughts, earthquakes, hurricanes and floods are a constant threat to society. Where in the past the population at risk had to react on the consequences of disasters, at present society wants to be more in control. Due to the high costs of restoration, of the stress and of the loss of fami...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Van der Veen, Anne
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bradford, England : Emerald Group Pub., ©2004.
Series:Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal. v. 13.
Subjects:
Disaster relief.
Political planning.
NATURE > Natural Disasters.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Disasters & Disaster Relief.
Disaster relief
Political planning
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Table of Contents:
  • Abstracts & keywords; Disasters and economic damage; Performance and protection in an adaptive transaction model; Economic loss; Modeling spatial economic impacts of an earthquake; Defining and measuring economic resilience to disasters; The indirect economic effects of a terrorist attack on transport infrastructure; The evaluation of vulnerability to flooding; On direct estimation of initial damage in the case of a major catastrophe; A methodology for incorporating natural catastrophes into macroeconomic projections.

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