Integrated Catastrophe Risk Modelling

Foreword Introduction PART I. Integrated modeling and risk sharing 1. Catastrophic Risk Management: Flood and Seismic Risks Case Studies 2 . Managing Flash Flood Risk to Vienna and its Subway System - Uncertainty and Modeling 3. Handling Multiple Criteria in Flood Management PART II. Economic developments under catastrophes 4. Economic Growth under Catastrophes 5. Evaluation of Dams for Flood Protection: Economic and Equity Aspects 6. The CATSIM Model for Assessing Policy Response to Disasters in Developing Countries 7. Modelling the Economic Effects of Disaster Risk in Nepal PART III. Flood risk management for the Tisza River Basin in Hungary 8. Catastrophe Models and Policy Processes. Managing Flood Risk in the Hungarian Tisza River Basin. An Introduction. 9. Social Indicators of Vulnerability to Floods - An Empirical Case Study in Two Upper Tisza Flood Basins 10. Designing a Flood Management and Insurance System in Hungary: A Model-Based Stakeholder Approach 11. Consensus by Simulation: A Flood Model for Participatory Policy 12. A Risk-Based Decision Analytic Approach to Assessing Multi-Stakeholder Policy Problems 13. Financial Instruments in Integrated Catastrophic Flood Management: Demand for contingent credits 14. Flood Loss Considerations and Adaptation Strategies due to Climate Change in Hungary and the Tisza Region Index