Libro Land-Use Portfolio Modeler, Version 1.0? Software Documentation and Tutorial De Ng, Peter ; Hong, Makiko ; Taketa, Richard

portada Land-Use Portfolio Modeler, Version 1.0? Software Documentation and Tutorial

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Peter Ng

Makiko Hong

Richard Taketa

Editorial

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

27.9 x 21.6 x 0.3 cm

Peso

0.17 kg.

ISBN13

9781500297947

Categorías

Tecnología: cuestiones generales

Land-Use Portfolio Modeler, Version 1.0? Software Documentation and Tutorial

Peter Ng (Autor) · Makiko Hong (Autor) · Richard Taketa (Autor) · Createspace Independent Publishing Platform · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Land-Use Portfolio Modeler, Version 1.0? Software Documentation and Tutorial"

Natural hazards pose significant threats to the public safety and economic health of many communities through- out the world. Community leaders and decision-makers continually face the challenges of planning and allocating limited resources to invest in protecting their communities against catastrophic losses from natural-hazard events. Public efforts to assess community vulnerability and encourage loss-reduction measures through mitigation often focused on either aggregating site-specific estimates or adopting stan- dards based upon broad assumptions about regional risks. The site-specific method usually provided the most accurate estimates, but was prohibitively expensive, whereas regional risk assessments were often too general to be of practical use. Policy makers lacked a systematic and quantitative method for conducting a regional-scale risk assessment of natural hazards. In response, Bernknopf and others (2001) developed the portfolio model, an intermediate-scale approach to assess- ing natural-hazard risks and mitigation policy alternatives.