Browsing by Author "Cardona, Omar Darío"
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Análisis de beneficio costo de la mitigación del riesgo sísmico de las escuelas de la Región Andina y de Centro América
(Copicentro, 2011)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyThe observed damages in schools during earthquakes have encouraged the development of projects oriented to reduce its vulnerability. Those projects have been supported by damage assessments and Benefit Cost Analysis for ... -
CAPRA - Comprehensive Approach to Probabilistic Risk Assessment: international initiative for risk management effectiveness
(2012)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyUnderstanding disaster risk due to hazard events, such as earthquakes, creates powerful incentives for countries to develop planning options and tools to reduce potential damages. This has been the reason why CAPRA, the ... -
Comprehensive approach for probabilistic risk assessment (CAPRA): international initiative for disaster risk management effectiveness
(2010)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyUnderstanding disaster risk due to hazard events, such as earthquakes, creates powerful incentives for countries to develop planning options and tools to reduce potential damages. This has been the reason why CAPRA, the ... -
Curva de excedencia de pérdidas híbrida para la representación del riesgo
(Copicentro, 2011)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyThis article describes a risk analysis methodology that uses, in one hand, empiric estimations of recurrence based on information available in local disaster data bases, with which it is possible to estimate the loss ... -
Design and implementation of a collective insurance program based on cross subsidies for recovery of low income homeowners
(2012)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyUnderstanding disaster risk due to hazard events creates powerful incentives to develop planning options and tools to reduce and finance potential damages. This paper describes how probabilistic metrics such as the loss ... -
Design and implementation of a collective risk transfer instrument for the insurance of low-income homeowners
(2010)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyThis paper discusses how a catastrophe risk model –based on metrics such as the Probabilistic Maximum Loss and the Average Annual Loss– has been used to estimate, building by building, the probabil-istic losses of different ... -
Design and implementation of seismic risk insurance to cover low-income homeowners by a cross-subsidy strategy
(2010)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyThis paper discusses how a catastrophe risk model–based on metrics such as the Probabilistic Maximum Loss and the Average Annual Loss– has been used to estimate, building by building, the probabilistic losses of different ... -
Disaster risk as a fiscal contingent liability: a useful tool for disaster risk management
(2010)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyThis study presents a methodology to evaluate the disaster risk from a macroeconomic perspective. The proposed Disaster Deficit Index (DDI) represents risk from a macroeconomic and financial perspective in case of possible ... -
Diseño e implementación del seguro de riesgo sísmico para cubrir los edificios privados a través de una estrategia de subsidio cruzado
(Copicentro, 2011)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyThis paper discusses how a catastrophe risk model –based on metrics such as the Probabilistic Maximum Loss and the Average Annual Loss– has been used to estimate, building by building, the probabilistic losses of different ... -
Diseño e implementación del seguro de riesgo sísmico para cubrir los edificios privados a través de una estrategia de subsidio cruzado
(2011-10)
Article
Open AccessEste artículo describe cómo un modelo de riesgo catastrófico –basado en métricas como la Pérdida Máxima Probable y la Pérdida Anual Esperada – ha sido utilizado para estimar, edificio por edificio, las pérdidas probables ... -
Earthquake risk from the financial protection perspective: a metric for fiscal vulnerability evaluation in the Americas
(2010)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyExtreme disasters can generate financial deficit due to the sudden an elevated need of resources for recovering the affected inventories. This paper presents the Disaster Deficit Index (DDI), developed to measure sovereign ... -
Earthquake vulnerability assessment of buildings for catastrophic risk analysis in urban areas
(2012)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyA catastrophic risk model has been developed to evaluate, building by building, the probabilistic losses and pure premiums of different portfolios. The model includes a hazard module, an exposure module, a vulnerability ... -
Enfoque integral para la evaluación de efectos de sitio en ciudades y su aplicación en Bogotá
(2013)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyA methodology for modeling site effects in cities is presented. This methodology is based on the definition of the prevailing geological formations and their relation to soft soil deposits within the urban area. Based on ... -
Enfoque integral para la evaluación probabilista del riesgo (CAPRA): iniciativa internacional para la efectividad de la gestión del riesgo de desastre
(Copicentro, 2011)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyUnderstanding disaster risk due to hazard events, such as earthquakes, creates powerful incentives for countries to develop planning options and tools to reduce potential damages. This has been the reason why CAPRA, the ... -
Evaluacion del riesgo sismico: un modelo basado en la teoría de conjuntos difusos
(Copicentro, 2011)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyRisk is defined, for management purposes, as the potential economic, social and environmental consequences of hazardous events that may occur in a specified period of time. The risk requires a multidisciplinary evaluation ... -
Evaluación integrada de la seguridad de hospitales: implicaciones en la resiliencia de las comunidades
(2011-04)
Article
Open AccessEl objetivo de “hospitales a salvo de desastres” promovido por la Organización Mundial de la Salud sugiere la evaluación de la vulnerabilidad física de las instalaciones, así como la fragilidad socioeconómica de las ... -
Holistic evaluation of the seismic risk in Barcelona by using indicators
(2012)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyThis article presents a methodology which evaluates the seismic risk from a holistic perspective, that is, it takes into account the expected physical damage and also the conditions related to social fragility and lack of ... -
Hybrid loss exceedance curve (HLEC) for risk assessment
(Societatea Academica, 2013)
Conference report
Open AccessCountries need to assess the expected risk due to natural hazards as a permanent activity in their financial plan; otherwise, they will experience a lack in the information required by the application of disaster risk ... -
Integrated evaluation of hospital safety: implications on resilience and welfare of communities
(2010)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyThe Strategy of Safe Hospitals from Disasters promoted by the World Health Organization suggests the evaluation of the physical vulnerability of facilities as well as the socioeconomic fragility of communities. According ... -
Integrated evaluation of hospital safety: implications on resilience of communities
(2010)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyThe Strategy of Safe Hospitals from Disasters promoted by the World Health Organization sug-gests the evaluation of the physical vulnerability of facilities as well as the socioeconomic fragility of communities. According ...
