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Bjarnadottir, Sigridur Osk.

Probabilistic-based hurricane risk assessment and mitigation considering the potential impacts of climate change.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Probabilistic-based hurricane risk assessment and mitigation considering the potential impacts of climate change.
Author:	Bjarnadottir, Sigridur Osk.
Description:	319 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-03(E), Section: B.
Notes:	Advisers: Yue Li; Mark G. Stewart.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International74-03B(E).
Subject:	Climate Change.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3542516
ISBN:	9781267703736

Probabilistic-based hurricane risk assessment and mitigation considering the potential impacts of climate change.
Bjarnadottir, Sigridur Osk.

Probabilistic-based hurricane risk assessment and mitigation considering the potential impacts of climate change. - 319 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-03(E), Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Michigan Technological University, 2012.

Studies are suggesting that hurricane hazard patterns (e.g. intensity and frequency) may change as a consequence of the changing global climate. As hurricane patterns change, it can be expected that hurricane damage risks and costs may change as a result. This indicates the necessity to develop hurricane risk assessment models that are capable of accounting for changing hurricane hazard patterns, and develop hurricane mitigation and climatic adaptation strategies. This thesis proposes a comprehensive hurricane risk assessment and mitigation strategies that account for a changing global climate and that has the ability of being adapted to various types of infrastructure including residential buildings and power distribution poles.

ISBN: 9781267703736Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Climate Change.

Probabilistic-based hurricane risk assessment and mitigation considering the potential impacts of climate change.
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520 $a The framework includes hurricane wind field models, hurricane surge height models and hurricane vulnerability models to estimate damage risks due to hurricane wind speed, hurricane frequency, and hurricane-induced storm surge and accounts for the time-dependant properties of these parameters as a result of climate change. The research then implements median insured house values, discount rates, housing inventory, etc. to estimate hurricane damage costs to residential construction. The framework was also adapted to timber distribution poles to assess the impacts climate change may have on timber distribution pole failure. This research finds that climate change may have a significant impact on the hurricane damage risks and damage costs of residential construction and timber distribution poles.
520 $a In an effort to reduce damage costs, this research develops mitigation/adaptation strategies for residential construction and timber distribution poles. The cost-effectiveness of these adaptation/mitigation strategies are evaluated through the use of a Life-Cycle Cost (LCC) analysis. In addition, a scenario-based analysis of mitigation strategies for timber distribution poles is included. For both residential construction and timber distribution poles, adaptation/mitigation measures were found to reduce damage costs.
520 $a Finally, the research develops the Coastal Community Social Vulnerability Index (CCSVI) to include the social vulnerability of a region to hurricane hazards within this hurricane risk assessment. This index quantifies the social vulnerability of a region, by combining various social characteristics of a region with time-dependant parameters of hurricanes (i.e. hurricane wind and hurricane-induced storm surge). Climate change was found to have an impact on the CCSVI (i.e. climate change may have an impact on the social vulnerability of hurricane-prone regions).
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