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The Economic Costs And Consequences Of Terrorism

Edited by Harry W. Richardson, The James Irvine Chair of Urban and Regional Planning, School of Policy, Planning and Development and Professor of Economics, University of Southern California, US, Peter Gordon, Professor, School of Policy, Planning and Development, University of Southern California, US and James E. Moore II, Chair, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering and Professor, School of Policy, Planning and Development, University of Southern California, US
Contents:

Preface

PART I: INTRODUCTION
1. Introduction
Harry W. Richardson, Peter Gordon and James E. Moore II

PART II: GENERAL ISSUES
2. Terrorism: Considering New Policies
Bruno S. Frey and Simon Luechinger

3. An Empirical Analysis of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA)
Howard Kunreuther and Erwann Michel-Kerjan

PART III: SECURITY
4. Airport Security: Time for a New Model
Robert W. Poole, Jr.

5. Cost-effective Strategies to Address Urban Terrorism: A Risk Management Approach
Richard G. Little

6. Optimal Inspection Strategies for Coast Guard Operations
Niyazi Onur Bakir

7. Balancing Freedom and Security after 9/11: Risk Management at the National Park Service
Larry Parkinson

PART IV: MACROECONOMIC, SECTORAL AND SPATIAL IMPACTS
8. The National Economic Impacts of a Food Terrorism Event: Initial Estimates of Indirect Costs
Thomas F. Stinson

9. The Economic Cost of Disasters: Permanent or Ephemeral?
Matthew P. Drennan

10. Analyzing Catastrophic Terrorist Events with Applications to the Food Industry
Hamid Mohtadi and Antu Panini Murshid

11. Simulating the State-by-State Effects of Terrorist Attacks on Three Major US Ports: Applying NIEMO (National Interstate Economic Model)
Jiyoung Park, Peter Gordon, James E. Moore II, Harry W. Richardson and Lanlan Wang

12. Tourism and Terrorism: The National and Interregional Economic Impacts of Attacks on Major US Theme Parks
Harry W. Richardson, Peter Gordon, James E. Moore II, Soojung Kim, Jiyoung Park and Qisheng Pan

PART V: THE ELECTRIC POWER SECTOR
13. Worst-case Electricity Scenarios: The Benefits and Costs of Prevention
Lester B. Lave, Jay Apt and Granger Morgan

14. Risk and Economic Costs of a Terrorist Attack on the Electric System
Rae Zimmerman, Carlos E. Restrepo, Jeffrey S. Simonoff and Lester B. Lave

15. Regional Economic Impacts of a Terrorist Attack on the Water System of Los Angeles: A Computable General Disequilibrium Analysis
Adam Rose, Gbadebo Oladosu and Shu-Yi Liao

16. Two-sided Electricity Markets: Self-Healing Systems
Richard E. Schuler

Index
2007 360 pp Hardback 978 1 84542 734 4 £ 85.00 on-line discount £ 76.50
2008 360 pp Paperback 978 1 84720 974 0 £ 35.00 on-line discount £ 28.00
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