Natural Disaster Analysis after Hurricane Katrina: Risk Assessment, Economic Impacts and Social Implications

摘要

The publisher's description on its website exemplifies the strengths and weaknesses of this edited collection assembled by faculty members at the University of Southern California's Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorist Events:rnLeading scholars from fields as diverse as decision analysis, risk management, economics, engineering, transportation, urban planning and sociology investigate the policy issues associated with insurance, flood control and rebuilding levees, housing, tourism, utility lifelines, recovery and resilience, evacuation and relocation, and racial inferences.