Risk and decision-making for extreme events: climate change and terrorism

Title: Risk and decision-making for extreme events: climate change and terrorism
Creator: Stewart, Mark G.
Relation: Multi-hazard Approaches to Civil Infrastructure Engineering p. 87-103
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29713-2_5
Publisher: Springer International
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2016
Description: Terrorism and climate change are extreme events that frighten and alarm. This makes decision-making for these hazards or threats all the more difficult, particularly when decision-makers are risk averse. This chapter will describe how risk-based approaches are well suited to optimising decisions related to these extreme events. Stochastic methods are used to model threat likelihood, vulnerability, effectiveness of protective strategies, exposure and costs. The concepts will be illustrated with current research of risk-based assessment of counterterrorism and climate adaptation strategies. The case studies consider (1) protection of new bridges against terrorist attack and (2) climate change and cost-effectiveness of designing new port facilities to be less vulnerable to severe corrosion.
Subject: climate change; terrorism; decision-making
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1344019
Identifier: uon:29306
Identifier: ISBN:9783319297132
Language: eng

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