Description: Hidden Costs of Coastal Hazards : Implications for Risk Assessment and Mitigation, Paperback by H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment (COR), ISBN 1559637560, ISBN-13 9781559637565, Used Good Condition, Free shipping in the US Society has limited hazard mitigation dollars to invest. Which actions will be most cost effective, considering the true range of impacts and costs incurred? In 1997, the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment began a two-year study with a panel of experts to help develop new strategies to identify and reduce the costs of weather-related hazards associated with rapidly increasing coastal development activities.The Hidden Costs of Coastal Hazards presents the panel's findings, offering the first in-depth study that considers the costs of coastal hazards to natural resources, social institutions, business, and the built environment. Using Hurricane Hugo, which struck South Carolina in 1989, as a case study, it provides for the first time information on the full range of economic costs caused by a major coastal hazard event. Th: describes and examines unreported, undocumented, and hidden costs such as losses due to business interruption, reduction in property values, interruption of social services, psychological trauma, damage to natural systems, and others examines the concepts of risk and vulnerability, and discusses conventional approaches to risk assessment and the emerging area of vulnerability assessment recommends a comprehensive framework for developing and implementing mitigation strategies documents the human impact of Hurricane Hugo and provides insight from those who lived through it.The Hidden Costs of Coastal Hazards takes a structured approach to the problem of coastal hazards, offering a new framework for community-based hazard mitigation along with specific recommendations for implementation. Decisionmakers -- both policymakers and planners -- who are interested in coastal hazard issues will find th a unique source of new information and insight, as will private-sector decisionmakers including lenders, investors, developers, and insurers of coastal property.
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Book Title: Hidden Costs of Coastal Hazards : Implications for Risk Assessmen
Number of Pages: 252 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Hidden Costs of Coastal Hazards : Implications for Risk Assessment and Mitigation
Publisher: Island Press
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 1999
Subject: Urban & Land Use Planning, Environmental Conservation & Protection, Environmental / General, Development / Sustainable Development
Item Weight: 0 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Nature, Architecture, Technology & Engineering, Business & Economics
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Economics the H. John Heinz III Center for Science and the Environment
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
