Business interruption impacts of a terrorist attack on the electric power system of Los Angeles: Customer resilience to a total blackout

Risk Analysis

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 513-531

  Rose, Adam ^a   Oladosu, Gbadebo ^b   Liao, Shu Yi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Business interruption loss estimation; General equilibrium analysis; Power blackouts; Resilience; Terrorism

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS INTERRUPTION LOSS ESTIMATION; GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS; POWER BLACKOUTS; RESILIENCE; TERRORISM;

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; MARKETING;

SOCIAL ASPECTS;

BUSINESS; ECONOMIC IMPACT; ELECTRICAL POWER; ELECTRICITY; REGIONAL ECONOMY; RESILIENCE; TERRORISM;

ARTICLE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; ELECTRICITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; POWER SUPPLY; TERRORISM; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; LOS ANGELES; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34447328229     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: 15396924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2007.00912.x     Document Type: Article

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