Terrorism risks and blast damage to built infrastructure

Natural Hazards Review

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 114-122

  Stewart, Mark G ^a   Netherton, Michael D ^a   Rosowsky, David V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Benefit cost ratio; Blasting; Decision making; Infrastructure; Risk management; Terrorism

Indexed keywords

BENEFIT COST RATIO; INFRASTRUCTURE; NATURAL HAZARDS; TERRORISM;

BLASTING; DECISION MAKING; DISASTERS; HAZARDS; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT;

BUILDINGS;

INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT; NATURAL HAZARD; RISK ASSESSMENT; TERRORISM;

EID: 33746210116     PISSN: 15276988     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1527-6988(2006)7:3(114)     Document Type: Article

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