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Improved seismic monitoring : improved decision-making : assessing the value of reduced uncertainty

Title
Improved seismic monitoring : improved decision-making : assessing the value of reduced uncertainty / Committee on the Economic Benefits of Improved Seismic Monitoring, Committee on Seismology and Geodynamics, Board on Earth Sciences and Resources, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies.
Publication
Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2006], ©2006.

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  • National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on the Economic Benefits of Improved Seismic Monitoring.
  • National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Seismology and Geodynamics.
  • National Academies Press (U.S.)
Description
xii, 183 pages : illustrations, color maps; 23 cm
Subject
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-166, 177-178).
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. The role of seismic monitoring in decision-making -- 3. Conceptual framework for benefit estimation and a taxonomy of benefits -- 4. Benefits from improved earthquake hazard assessment and forecasting -- 5. Benefits from improved loss estimation models -- 6. Benefits from performance-based engineering -- 7. Benefits for emergency response and recovery -- 8. Integrating the benefits - conclusions and recommendations -- App. A. Excerpts from Bernknopf et al. (1993), "societal value of geologic maps"
ISBN
0309096952
OCLC
  • ocm63209864
  • SCSB-5267022
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries