Infrastructure risk management processes : natural, accidental, and deliberate hazards / edited by Craig Taylor, Erik VanMarcke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Taylor, Craig E.

Vanmarcke, Erik.

ASCE Council on Disaster Risk Management.

Series:

Monograph (ASCE Council on Disaster Risk Management) ; no. 1.

ASCE Council on Disaster Risk Management monograph ; no. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil engineering.

Emergency management.

Infrastructure (Economics).

Risk management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (303 p.)

Place of Publication:

Reston, VA : American Society of Civil Engineers, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Prepared by the Risk and Vulnerability Committee of the Council on Disaster Risk Management of ASCE This CDRM Monograph discusses quantification of exposure and vulnerability of complex, spatially distributed systems, yielding estimates of local and systemwide potential losses for different alternatives in multihazard 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. Topics include: Hazard Issues; Systems Evaluation Issues; Risk Criteria Issues; and Systems Management Issues.

Contents:

Introduction and Executive Summary; PSHA Uncertainty Analysis: Applications to the CEUS and the Pacific NW; The Regional Economic Cost of a Tsunami Wave Generated by a Submarine Landslide Off of Palos Verdes, California; The Emerging Role of Remote Sensing Technology in Emergency Management; Context And Resiliency: Influences on Electric Utility Lifeline Performance; Criteria for Acceptable Risk in the Netherlands; Landslide Risk Assessment and Remediation; A Preliminary Study of Geologic Hazards for the Columbia River Transportation Corridor; Multihazard Mitigation Los Angeles Water System: A Historical Perspective; Short Biographies of Contributing Authors; Rosters of the Two Participating Committees and Reviewers of Submitted Papers; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7844-7129-0

OCLC:

708569214