Analysis of Urban Disaster Prevention Engineering Investment: Cost-Benefit Analysis and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Approaches

Author

Wang Xia ; Ge Chunjing ; Guan Xianjun

Author_Institution

Sch. of Econ. & Manage., Tongji Univ., Shanghai, China

fYear

2009

fDate

20-22 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The main objective of this paper is to develop an improved model of the analysis of urban disaster prevention engineering investment by cost-benefit analysis and cost-effectiveness analysis. This improved model isolates the economic benefits, but also the social and environmental benefits. This paper distresses the question how to measure the indirect effects of the urban disaster and the how to analysis the efficiency of the investment for the prevention engineering from the social and environmental aspects based on CBA and CEA approaches.

Keywords

cost-benefit analysis; disasters; investment; town and country planning; cost-benefit analysis; cost-effectiveness analysis; economic benefits; environmental benefits; social benefits; urban disaster prevention engineering investment; Biological system modeling; Cost benefit analysis; Cost function; Decision making; Disaster management; Employment; Engineering management; Environmental economics; Humans; Investments;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Management and Service Science, 2009. MASS '09. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4638-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4639-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMSS.2009.5304153

Filename

5304153