Disaster recovery management

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Disaster recovery management

Post by "j-d" »

Professor Rob Olshansky at the Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Dept
of Urban and Regional Planning), my alma mater, did a lot of work in this
area (post-earthquake recovery). Not SD, but you may still like to contact
him if interested. It was done for/after the big California earthquakes.

www.urban.uiuc.edu

Regards

Jaideep
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Disaster recovery management

Post by Phil Emmi »

Earthquake Disaster Management: A Role for Systems Dynamics?

Earthquakes are often an indirect result of mountain-building. When
they occur in unpopulated regions, they are not a problem. Frequently,
however, this is not the case. And there are system dynamic reasons why.
A long-term process of local mountain building often interacts with
a short-term process of local annual weather cycles. Air flows are driven
up against the mountains. The resulting orographic effect produces upland
percipitation. Percipitation provides the water needed to maintain a rich
variety of plant and animal life suffient to attract human populations.
Thus people tend increasingly to live in zones with substantial earthquake
hazards.
Earthquake themselves result from the slow accummulation and sudden
release of seismic energy. This, too, can be represented as a sytem dynamic
process but with little advantage over traditional methods.
Other than this, earthquake disaster preparedness and mitigation is
a spatial organizational problem and is thus well informed by geographic
information analysis. Two articles that use this approach may prove
helpful. They are:

Philip C. Emmi and Carl A. Horton. 1993. A GIS-based assessment of
earthquake property damage and casualty risk: Salt Lake County, Utah.
Earthquake Spectra, 9:11-35.

Philip C. Emmi and Carl A. Horton. 1993. The benefits of a seismic retrofit
program for commercial unreinforced masonry structures: Salt Lake County,
Utah. Earthquake Spectra, 9: 1-10.

Prof. Philip C. Emmi
University of Utah
Geography Dept - Urban Planning Program
260 S Central Campus Dr Rm 270 OSH
Salt Lake City UT 84112-9155
ph: 801-581-5562
fax: 801-581-8219
home:801-582-0719
email:
pcemmi@geog.utah.edu
http://www.geog.utah.edu/geography/faculty/emmi.html
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