Regional economic impact analysis of earthquakes in northern Taiwan and its implications for disaster reduction policies

Natural Hazards

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 603-620

  Lin, H C ^a   Kuo, Y L ^b   Shaw, D ^c   Chang, M C ^d   Kao, T M ^e  

^a NATIONAL CHIAYI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c INSTITUTE OF ECONOMICS   (Taiwan)

^d CHUNG HUA INSTITUTION FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (Taiwan)

^e MING CHUAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Multi regional input output table; Regional economic impact; Scenario earthquake; Seismic retrofit; TELES

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; EARTHQUAKE; ECONOMIC IMPACT; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; INPUT-OUTPUT ANALYSIS; REGIONAL ECONOMY; REGIONAL PLANNING; SEISMICITY; SERVICE SECTOR; STATE ROLE;

TAIWAN;

EID: 84856398421     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-011-0049-5     Document Type: Article

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