The influence of hazard models on GIS-based regional risk assessments and mitigation policies

Earthquakes and Risk Management in China

“…In the planning phase, databases can be populated with information that can include land use models integrating earth science and socioeconomic information by locality (Bernknopf and Rabinovici 2006). Wood and Good (2004) reported on experience with a GIS to assess the vulnerability of an Oregon port to earthquake and tsunami risk.…”

Applying the land use portfolio model to estimate natural-hazard loss and risk — A hypothetical demonstration for Ventura County, California

“…The LUPM integrates natural-hazards, earth-science, and economic information in a Geographic Information System (GIS) to estimate expected value and uncertainty of return-on-investment, expected loss, and expected value and uncertainty of community wealth retained. For a natural-hazard event, a user can run the LUPM to evaluate the risks and returns of investing in different portfolios of locations and loss-mitigation strategies, and then compare and rank them according to the user's risk preferences (Bernknopf and others, 2006;Dinitz and others, 2003). The LUPM was designed for decision-making at a regional-level, but data at any scale can be entered into the model.…”