ABSTRACT
In recent decades, the intensification of unpredictable events including the Covid-19 outbreak, Brexit, trade warfare, religion-inspired terrorism and civil wars, and climate change has resulted in serious loss of human lives and property, a decrease in biodiversity and natural hazards (with long-term negative impacts on environment), and impeded social and economic development.
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. Contributors from economics, planning, regional science, and engineering address key questions including; How resilient are human societies and their habitats? What should societies do to shift from being vulnerable to being more resilient? And what role should planning and policies play to protect communities and the natural environment? The chapters cover academic debates, conceptual reflections, case studies, methods, and strategy development with particular reference to mitigation and adaptation in face of unpredictable events.
This book is of particular interest to readers of economic policy, urban and regional planning and engineering.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|115 pages
Economic emergencies
chapter 3|23 pages
Water flows and financial viability of electricity generation in Manitoba
chapter 4|16 pages
Assessment of the economic impact from extreme events
chapter 6|25 pages
Resilience to landslide hazard
chapter 9|12 pages
Response to the economic crisis
part II|126 pages
Planning dilemmas
chapter 11|15 pages
Extreme events evaluation and vulnerability assessment in planning
chapter 12|31 pages
New challenges, old dilemmas?
chapter 13|27 pages
A relational approach to planning evaluation
chapter 14|16 pages
Innovation environments and risk management
part III|129 pages
Engineering models