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Infrastructure Risk Management Processes: Natural, Accidental, and Deliberate Hazards

Abstract

  • Prepared by the Risk and Vulnerability Committee of the Council on Disaster Risk Management of ASCE.

    This CDRM Monograph discusses quantification of exposure and vulnerability of complex, spatially distributed systems, yielding estimates of local and systemwide potential losses for different alternatives in multihazard decision situations. These situations require an integration of scientific, engineering, social, administrative, psychological, and political processes with advances, setbacks, and many uncertainties. This monograph consists of eight papers that illustrate work done to date and plans for work to be done on managing these risks for potable water, electric power, transportation, and other infrastructure systems threatened by earthquakes, tsunamis, landslides, severe storms, saboteurs, and various other hazards. Topics include: Hazard Issues; Systems Evaluation Issues; Risk Criteria Issues; and Systems Management Issues.

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Front Matter
i–v
    Introduction and Executive Summary
    1–11

      Hazard Issues

      Chapter 1:
      PSHA Uncertainty Analysis: Applications to the CEUS and the Pacific NW
      13–63

        System Evaluation Issues

        Chapter 2:
        The Regional Economic Cost of a Tsunami Wave Generated by a Submarine Landslide Off of Palos Verdes, California
        65–94
          Chapter 3:
          The Emerging Role of Remote Sensing Technology in Emergency Management
          95–117
            Chapter 4:
            Context And Resiliency: Influences on Electric Utility Lifeline Performance
            118–142

              Risk Criteria Issues

              Chapter 5:
              Criteria for Acceptable Risk in the Netherlands
              143–157

                System Management Issues

                Chapter 6:
                Landslide Risk Assessment and Remediation
                159–193
                  Chapter 7:
                  A Preliminary Study of Geologic Hazards for the Columbia River Transportation Corridor
                  194–223
                    Chapter 8:
                    Multihazard Mitigation Los Angeles Water System: A Historical Perspective
                    224–279
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                      Appendix A:
                      Short Biographies of Contributing Authors
                      281–289
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                        Appendix B:
                        Rosters of the Two Participating Committees and Reviewers of Submitted Papers
                        290–292
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                          Index
                          293–296