Integrated Catastrophe Risk Modeling
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"This edited volume provides an introduction to the research and to several case studies that have emerged from that work. . This volume would be of interest to researchers and practitioners in the practical modeling of natural hazards and catastrophic risks." (IEEE Control Systems Magazine, October, 2013)
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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 aChanging Climate: A Multilevel approach for Risk Management.- Index