Making choices about earthquake performance

Natural Hazards Review

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 64-70

  May, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Earthquake engineering; Earthquake resistant structures; Earthquakes; Public policy

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING; EARTHQUAKE RESISTANT STRUCTURES; LEGAL SYSTEMS; PUBLIC SAFETY;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; PUBLIC POLICY; RISK MANAGEMENT; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EARTHQUAKES;

EID: 9144257431     PISSN: 15276988     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)1527-6988(2004)5:2(64)     Document Type: Review

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