Integrated Catastrophe Risk Modeling Supporting Policy Processes /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Amendola, Aniello (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Ermolieva, Tatiana (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Linnerooth-Bayer, Joanne (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Mechler, Reinhard (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Σειρά: Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, 32
• Θέματα: Earth sciences.; Business.; Management science.; Natural disasters.; Probabilities.; Quality control.; Reliability.; Industrial safety.; Sustainable development.; Earth Sciences.; Natural Hazards.; Business and Management, general.; Sustainable Development.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.; Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk.

Efficient and equitable policies for managing disaster risks and adapting to global environmental change are critically dependent on development of robust options supported by integrated modeling. The book is based on research and state-of-the art models developed at IIASA (International Institute f...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Preface
• PART I. Integrated Modeling for Informing Risk Management Policies
• 1. Integrated Modeling for Informing Risk Management Policies: An Introduction
• 2. Modeling Risk and Uncertainty: Managing Flash Flood Risk in Vienna
• 3. Modeling Catastrophe Risk for Designing Insurance Systems
• 4. Handling Multiple Criteria in Flood Risk Management
• 5. Dams and Catastrophe Risk: Discounting in Long-Term Planning
• PART II. Disasters and Growth: Modeling and Managing Country-wide Catastrophe Risk
• 6. Modeling Aggregate Economic Risk: An Introduction
• 7. Catastrophe Risk and Economic Growth
• 8. Modeling Macro-scale Disaster Risk: The CATSIM Model
• 9. Managing Indirect Economic Consequences of Disaster Risk: The Case of Nepal
• PART III. Tisza River Basin in Hungary:  Flood Risk Management, Multi-Stakeholder Processes and Conflict Resolution
• 10. Catastrophe Models and Policy Processes: Managing flood Risk in the Hungarian Tisza river basin. An introduction
• 11. Social Indicators of Vulnerability to Floods: An Empirical Case Study in Two Upper Tisza Flood Basins
• 12. Designing a Flood Management and Insurance System in Hungary: A Model-Based Stakeholder Approach
• 13. Consensus by Simulation: A Flood Model for Participatory Policy
• 14. A Risk-Based Decision Analytic Approach to Assessing Multi-Stakeholder Policy Problems
• 15. Optimizing Public Private Risk Transfer Systems for Flood Risk Management in the Upper River Tisza
• 16. Flood Risk in a Changing Climate: A Multilevel approach for Risk Management
• Index.