Earthquake disaster risk index for Canadian cities using Bayesian belief networks

Georisk

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 128-140

  Cockburn, G ^a   Tesfamariam, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayesian belief network; decision making; infrastructures; risk assessment; seismic risk index; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; EARTHQUAKE; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; INFRASTRUCTURE; NATURAL DISASTER; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CANADA;

EID: 84860344207     PISSN: 17499518     EISSN: 17499526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17499518.2011.650147     Document Type: Article

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