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Economic Impacts Of Terrorist Attacks And Natural Disasters: Case Studies Of Los Angeles And Houston, Qisheng Pan, Peter Gordon, James Moore, Harry Richardson

Qisheng Pan

Large metropolitan regions are vulnerable to terrorist attacks and natural disasters. Ports and downtown business districts could be targets of terrorist attacks and are also prone to substantial losses from natural disasters like earthquakes or hurricanes. It is important for stakeholders and decision makers to be aware of the spatial distribution of these losses and recognize the potential economic losses from various hypothetical terrorist attacks and natural disasters on these crucial facilities and core sites. The Southern California Planning Model (SCPM), a GIS-based regional planning model developed initially for the five-county Los Angeles metropolitan area, is capable of endogenizing freight …

The Costs Of A Terrorist Attack On Terminal Island At The Twin Ports Of Los Angeles And Long Beach, Peter Gordon, James Moore, Harry Richardson, Qisheng Pan

Qisheng Pan

This study is part of a research program to apply the Southern California Planning Model (SCPM) and similar economic impact models to estimate the economic losses from hypothetical but plausible terrorist attacks on various key infrastructure installations and other important sites.

This chapter we explore another dimension of potential terrorist attacks on the region's ports.

The Economic Impact Of A Terrorist Attack On The Twin Ports Of Los Angeles- Long Beach, Peter Gordon, James Moore, Harry Richardson, Qisheng Pan

Qisheng Pan

The Los Angeles metropolitan region is a prime target for a terrorist attack. There are many specific targets: The Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), downtown high-rises, its theme parks, its freeways, and its ports, among many others. We have developed a spatially disaggregated economic impact model that can evaluate all of these and any other plausible attacks. In this paper, we estimate the economic impacts of an attack on the Los Angeles- Long Beach Twin Ports.

Tourism And Terrorism: The National And Interregional Economic Impacts Of Attacks On Major U.S. Theme Parks, Peter Gordon, Harry Richardson, James Moore, Ji Young Park, Sooung Kim, Qisheng Pan

Qisheng Pan

This paper is one of a series of studies by our group on the economic impact of a variety of terrorist attacks in the United States. These studies use either or both of two economic impact models, SCPM (the Southern California Planning Model) and NIEMO (the National Interstate Economic Model). This research uses only the latter model and traces the interregional economic effects of attacks on major theme parks (13, including two clusters) located in a modest number of States (eight). The theme parks are identified by State but not by metropolitan area to mask specific identity. It is important …