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Title Infrastructure risk management processes : natural, accidental, and deliberate hazards / edited by Craig Taylor, Erik VanMarcke
Published Reston, VA : American Society of Civil Engineers, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (v, 296 pages) : illustrations
Series ASCE Council on Disaster Risk Management monograph ; no. 1
Monograph (ASCE Council on Disaster Risk Management) ; no. 1.
Contents PSHA uncertanty analysis / Stephen Harmsen -- Regional economic cost of a tsunami wave generated by a submarine landslide of Palos Verdes, California / Jose Borrero [and others] -- Emerging role of remote sensing technology in emergency management / Beverley J. Adams and Charles K. Huyck -- Context and reisliency / Dorothy Reed, Jane Preuss and Jaewook Park -- Criteria for acceptable risk in the Netherlands / J.K. Vrijling, P.H.A.J.M. van Gelder and S.J. Ouwerkerk -- Landslide risk assessment and remediation / Mihail Popescu and Manoochehr Zoghi -- Preliminary study of geologic hazaards for the columbia river transportation corridor / Yumei Wang and Amar Chaker -- Multihazard mitigation Los Angeles water system / Le Val Lund and Craig Davis
Summary Annotation Infrastructure Risk Management Processes: Natural, Accidental, and Deliberate Hazards, discusses quantification of exposure and vulnerability of complex, spatially distributed systems, yielding estimates of local and system-wide potential losses, for different alternatives in multi-hazard decision situations. These situations require an integration of scientific, engineering, social, administrative, psychological, and political processes with advances, setbacks, and many uncertainties. This monograph consists of eight papers that illustrate work done to date and plans for work to be done on managing these risks for potable water, electric power, transportation and other infrastructure systems threatened by earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides, severe storms, saboteurs, and various other hazards. This monograph, produced by the Risk and Vulnerability Committee of the Council on Disaster Risk Management (CDRM), is a sequel to a previous monograph, Acceptable Risk Processes: Lifelines and Natural Hazards (2002), published by ASCE. Topics include: Hazard Issues Systems Evaluation Issues Risk Criteria Issues Systems Management Issues
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Civil engineering.
Emergency management.
Infrastructure (Economics)
Risk management.
Risk Management
risk management.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Civil -- General.
Civil engineering
Emergency management
Infrastructure (Economics)
Risk management
Form Electronic book
Author Taylor, Craig E
Vanmarcke, Erik
ASCE Council on Disaster Risk Management.
ISBN 9780784471296
0784471290