Critical reflections on municipal risk and vulnerability analyses as decision support tools: the role of regulation regimes

Evaluating the sustainability of scenarios for port city development with Boussole21 method

“…We used the open software Boussole21, a tool for project evaluation, in order to evaluate the three different scenarios proposed by the national laboratory of maritime studies by abbreviation LEM, for the extension of the mixed port of Skikda. Boussole21 is a tool for decision support shared by key actors in urban or architectural development project (Vastveit et al 2014).…”

Defining resilience using probabilistic event trees

“…Fast and well-informed decision-making is essential in disaster mitigation (Klinke and Renn 2002;Mutaz 2007;Vastveit et al 2014;Kiker et al 2005;Linkov et al 2004). To offer an easier to grasp numerical value for resilience, suitable for fast decision-making, we propose the resilience indicator (RI) defined by…”

“…A risk map is a geographical representation of the local probabilities of harmful events, for example seismic event of specified magnitude. Risk maps and risk profiles are needed in establishing probabilities (Keane et al 2010;Vastveit et al 2014;Asprone et al 2013;NERA 2012;SHARE 2014;Frazier et al 2013) for resilience computation. Risk maps are produced by national agencies and by some insurance companies.…”

Introduction to the inaugural general issue of environment systems and decisions

“…A case study is presented which focuses on a stakeholder engagement approach to understanding the ecosystem effects of recovery actions on the cottonwood community along the Missouri river (Burks-Copes and Kiker 2014). Vastveit et al (2014) compare and contrast the regulatory regimes of Norway and Sweden to understand how riskbased information is used to facilitate policy decisions. Finally, Gorai et al (2014) utilize fuzzy evaluation methods and the analytic hierarchy process to develop an air quality index and apply the method to a case study in India.…”