Abstract: Society faces large challenges as to how we will deal with the increasing losses from natural, technological, and environmental hazards. Residents in hazard-prone areas are reluctant to protect themselves before the event ...

Abstract: This paper examines the history of St. Louis, Mo. in coping with riverine flood risk over the past 15 years, with a focus on flood insurance. Six observations from a detailed case analysis are presented. They are (1) many ...

Abstract: A two‐stage process for siting a noxious facility is proposed in this paper. We assume that each community that is a potential host to a site considers that the proposed project is sufficiently safe and that the community ...

Abstract: This paper describes a case study performed with the US passenger rail service provider Amtrak that developed a metrics framework to measure resilience to climate risk within their Northeast Corridor operations systems and ...