Economics and Engineering of Unpredictable Events: Modelling, Planning and Policies

ISBN-13: 9780367641900 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 386 str.

Caterina de Lucia; Dino Borri; Atif Kubursi

Opis

Economics and Engineering of Unpredictable Events: Modelling, Planning and Policies provides an integrated view of the management of unpredictable events incorporating three major perspectives: economic management, environmental planning and engineering models.

Spis treści

1 Introduction   PART I. ECONOMIC EMERGENCIES   2 Economic emergencies: An Introduction   3 Water flows and financial viability of electricity generation in Manitoba: Statistical modeling and prediction of droughts   4 Assessment of the economic impact from extreme events: the case of Xylella fastidiosa in the olive growing of Salento (southern Italy)   5 The environmentally acceptable damage and the future of the EU’s rural development policy   6 Resilience to landslide hazard – a visual and numerical investigation of property price differentials   7 The need for latent variables for modelling decision-making in evacuation simulations   8 House prices and energy performance indicators in Italy: Critical aspects   9 Response to the economic crisis: Profile and remittance behaviour of Latvian emigrants   PART II. PLANNING DILEMMAS   10 Planning dilemmas: An introduction   11 Extreme events evaluation and vulnerability assessment in planning: The institutional design of climate change planning and policy   12 New challenges, old dilemmas? Building climate change adaptive capacity through spatial planning and evaluation   13 A relational approach to planning evaluation: Implementation of the European landscape convention and the final disposal of spent nuclear fuel in Sweden   14 Innovation environments and risk management: Results from the KNOW4 European project   15 Performance and communicative evaluation of strategic metropolitan planning in Bari and Taranto   16 Joys and sorrows of living in an uncertain world   PART III. ENGINEERING MODELLING   17 Engineering modelling: An introduction   18 Supporting collective decision making processes in case of water management: Reflections on the interaction space   19 Ontological analysis and extreme events classification   20 Green infrastructures: A challenge for urban climatic resilience   21 Impact of climate change on irrigation infrastructures: Use of localized loops as an adaptation strategy   22 Analysis of monitoring data recorded in the Mar Grande basin (southern Italy)   23 Navigating in multi-level buildings: The effects of rotations on people’s perception of spaces. A framework for emergency situations   24 Evaluation and remediation of a contaminated aquatic environment: Torre Quetta case study   25 Social network and natural language in risk assessment: A conceptual model