Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Book cover

Modeling Spatial and Economic Impacts of Disasters

  • Book
  • © 2004

Overview

Editors:
  1. Yasuhide Okuyama

    1. Regional Research Institute, West Virginia University, Morgantown, USA

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  2. Stephanie E. Chang

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

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  • Up-to-date knowledge on modeling of disasters
  • Many international case studies, including impacts of 9/11 on the New York City economy
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Advances in Spatial Science (ADVSPATIAL)

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 129.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Yasuhide Okuyama, Stephanie E. Chang
      Pages 1-10

  3. Conceptual and Modeling Issues

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
      Download chapter PDF

    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
      Download chapter PDF

    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
      Download chapter PDF

    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

    Pages 311-324
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

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.

Reviews

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)

Editors and Affiliations

  • 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

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation