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• Alesch, D. J.; Peak, W. J.
  Politics and Economics of Earthquake Hazard Mitigation. Unreinforced Masonry Buildings in Southern California. Program on Environment and Behavior.
  National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA., cJanuary 1986, 294 p.
  Keywords: Risk assessment; Case studies; Public policy; Seismic design; Soil-structure interactions; Costs; Earthquakes; Policy making; Unreinforced concrete; Perception; Natural hazards; Retrofitting; Buildings; Building codes; Disasters; Legislation; Earthquake resistant structures; Masonry; Decision making; Comparative evaluations; Mitigation; Economic factors; Political aspects

• Kunreuther, H.; Meyer, R.; Van den Bulte, C.
  Risk Analysis for Extreme Events: Economic Incentives for Reducing Future Losses.
  National Inst. of Standards and Technology (BFRL), Gaithersburg, MD. Building and Fire Research Lab., October 2004, 108 p.
  Identifying Number(s): NIST-GCR-04-871
  Keywords: Incentives; Low probabliity-high consequence events; Risk management; Risk assessment; Hazards; Perception; Natural disasters; Cooperation; Extreme events; Economic incentives

• Singh, H.; Thayer, M. A.; Murdoch, J. C.
  Loma Prieta Earthquake: An Event Study of Changes in Risk Perceptions and the Housing Market.
  National Science Foundation, Washington, DC. Div. of Industrial Science and Technological Innovation., January 1992, 117 p.
  Keywords: San Francisco Bay Area; Earthquake damage; Risk; Market value; Residential buildings; Perception; Soil properties; Loma Prieta Earthquake; Prices; California; Least squares method; Benefit cost analysis; Economic factors

• Palm, R. I.; Hodgson, M. E.
  Natural Hazards in Puerto Rico: Attitudes, Experience, and Behavior of Homeowners. Program on Environment and Behavior.
  National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA., cJanuary 1993, 166 p.
  Identifying Number(s): ISBN-1-877943-09-6
  Keywords: ; Floods; Risk assessment; Public policy; Emergency preparedness; Earthquakes; Human behavior; Emergency planning; Surveys; Puerto Rico; Perception; Public opinion; Comparative evaluations; Attitudes; Hurricanes; State planning; Insurance; California; Mitigation; Disasters; Local planning