• Interdisciplinary in scope.
– Economics
– Civil Engineering
– Meteorology
– Psychology
– Sociology
Research Agenda
• Government Partners
– NOAA
– USGS
• Corporate Partners
– Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction
– Institute for Business and Home Safety
– Federal Alliance for Safe Homes
• Academic Partner Institutions
Economics:
Austin College
UT – Pan American
Texas Tech University
East Carolina
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Prediction Center, the National Severe Storms
Laboratory, and NOAA have shared data included in this
analysis
Economics of Natural Hazards
The research agenda is fundamentally
interdisciplinary.
Strong links with engineering, meteorology, law,
sociology and others.
‘‘. . . what has so often
excited wonder, the
great rapidity with
which countries
recover from a state of
devastation
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of
complex interdependencies, the effort to solve one aspect may
create other problems.
Complex problem:
A problem with many relationships between parts that give rise to
collective behaviour of the system.
Complex system approach
A broad term encompassing a research approach to problems in
many diverse disciplines including computer science, AI, biology,
sociology, etc.
Common elements
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