This book presents a multiregional input-output model for the metropolitan area of Southern California, which helps to estimate the economic impact of simulated terrorist attacks on seaports, malls etc. as well as of natural disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis. The authors also analyze the economic and social effects of metropolitan policies such as growth controls, neighborhood gentrification or road-congestion charges. The model presented in the book has evolved over a period of 25 years and requires a very substantial computer capacity.

Presents a wide range on research studies on economics of terrorism and disasters management Discusses appropriate metropolitan policy strategies to counter terrorist attacks and to respond to natural disasters Offers a regional science model that relies on an 8-million cell matrix

Autorentext

Harry W. Richardson has a Honorary Doctorate from the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico, Toluca, Mexico and was formerly the James Irvine Chair of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Southern California. Qisheng Pan is Professor of Planning at Texas Southern University JiYoung Park is Associate Professor of Planning at the University of Buffalo, NY and at Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea. James E. Moore is Vice-Dean of Academic Affairs at the Viterbi School of Engineering and Professor of Systems and Design Engineering at the University of Southern California.

Inhalt

Preface.- Part I: Introduction.- Part II: Theory.- Part III: Terrorist Attacks.- Part IV: Natural Disaster.- Part V: Metropolitan Policies.- Part VI: Conclusion.