Community Resilience and Decision Theory Challenges for Catastrophic Events

Risk Analysis

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1919-1934

  Cox, Louis Anthony Tony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Catastrophe risks; Chaos; Community resilience; Complex systems; Decision analysis challenges; Disaster planning; Expected utility theory; Extreme events; Fat tails; Group decisions; Morals; Mores; Power laws; Self organizing criticality

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY RESILIENCE; DISASTER PLANNING; EXPECTED UTILITY THEORY; EXTREME EVENTS; FAT TAILS; GROUP DECISION; MORALS; MORES; POWER-LAW; SELF-ORGANIZING CRITICALITY;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CHAOS THEORY; DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTERS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; RISK MANAGEMENT; RISK PERCEPTION;

DECISION THEORY;

CATASTROPHIC EVENT; CHAOTIC DYNAMICS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DECISION ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; EXTREME EVENT; POWER LAW; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; DISASTER; INSURANCE; PROBABILITY; RISK; UNCERTAINTY;

DECISION MAKING; DISASTERS; INSURANCE COVERAGE; PROBABILITY; RISK; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84869498516     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: 15396924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2012.01881.x     Document Type: Article

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