Regional Economic Impacts of Terrorist Attacks, Natural Disasters and Metropolitan Policies

This book presents a multiregional input-output model for the metropolitan area of Southern California, which helps to estimate the economic impact of simulated terrorist attacks on seaports, malls etc. as well as of natural disasters such as earthquakes

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Harry W. Richardson Qisheng Pan JiYoung Park James E. Moore II Editors

Regional Economic Impacts of Terrorist Attacks, Natural Disasters and Metropolitan Policies

Advances in Spatial Science The Regional Science Series

Series Editors Manfred M. Fischer Jean-Claude Thill Jouke van Dijk Hans Westlund Advisory Editors Geoffrey J.D. Hewings Peter Nijkamp Folke Snickars

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Harry W. Richardson • Qisheng Pan • JiYoung Park • James E. Moore II Editors

Regional Economic Impacts of Terrorist Attacks, Natural Disasters and Metropolitan Policies

Editors Harry W. Richardson Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Mexico Redmond WA JiYoung Park Department of Urban and Regional Planning University of Buffalo Buffalo New York USA

Qisheng Pan Texas Southern University Houston Texas USA James E. Moore II University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering Los Angeles California USA

ISSN 1430-9602 ISSN 2197-9375 (electronic) Advances in Spatial Science ISBN 978-3-319-14321-7 ISBN 978-3-319-14322-4 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-14322-4 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015931647 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

Dedicated to Walter Isard and Wassily Leontief

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Preface

Wassily Leontief and Walter Isard have been inspirational in our research for decades. However, there have been several others who have been influential and directly helpful. A few of their names include Ben Stevens, Leon Moses, Geoff Hewings, Bill Miernyk, Charlie Tiebout, Bill Beyers, Ron Miller, Karen Polenske, Jean Paelinck, Michael Lahr, Randy Jackson, and Jan Oosterhaven. Several chapters have additional authors to the book coeditors. A few are Univers