The seven papers in this monograph are based on the ASCE tutorial and workshop held during a June 2007 civil engineering conference in Taipei. The authors, who are American academics, apply quantitative risk assessment to civil infrastructure facilities, dams, wind hazards, earthquakes, bridge decision making, and hurricane prone areas surrounded by a hurricane protection system. A quantitative all-hazards methodology for critical asset and portfolio risk analysis (CARPA) considers both natural and human-caused hazards. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
