Abstract: In this paper, we employ the metaphors of the hedgehog and the fox, as elaborated by Isaiah Berlin and recently employed by Philip Tetlock, in order to contrast two opposite but complementary approaches to infrastructure ...

Abstract: One of the main topics in the Georgia Tech/NEES Grand Challenge project “Seismic Risk Mitigation for Port Systems” is the evaluation of seismic risk management approaches for ports. One subtopic of this main topic is the ...

Abstract: Mitigation decreases the losses from natural hazards by reducing our vulnerability or by reducing the frequency and magnitude of causal factors. Reducing these losses brings many benefits, but every mitigation activity has ...