Land-Use Portfolio Modeler, Version 1.0? Software Documentation and Tutorial
Overview
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.
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- ISBN-13: 9781500297947
- ISBN-10: 1500297941
- Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publish Date: June 2014
- Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 x 0.13 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.37 pounds
- Page Count: 62
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