Mitigation and Financing of Seismic Risks: Turkish and International Perspectives

1. Introduction and Overview of the Proceedings.- Establishing the Infrastructure for Risk Quantification.- 2. Modeling and Quantification of Earthquake Risk: Application to Emerging Economies.- 3. Challenges in Marine Seismology in the Aegean Region.- 4. Seismic Risk in Romania: Features and Countermeasures.- Mitigation and Mitigation Choice.- 5. Public-Private Partnerships for Reducing Seismic Risk Losses.- 6. Intertemporal Choice under Uncertainty: A Behavioral Perspective.- 7. A Social Decision Analysis of the Earthquake Safety Problem: The Case of Existing Los Angeles Buildings.- 8. Improving the Safety of Urban Areas through “Local Seismic Cultures”: From the Umbria 1997 Earthquake to Co-operation in the Mediterranean.- Recent Policy Developments in Turkey.- 9. Structural and Educational Dimensions of Earthquake Damage Mitigation in Turkey.- 10. Revision of the Turkish Development Law No. 3194 Governing Urban Development and Land Use Planning.- 11. Recent Changes in Turkish Disasters Policy: A Strategical Reorientation?.- Insurance and Risk Transfer Mechanisms.- 12. Alternative Risk Transfer Mechanisms for Seismic Risks.- 13. Considerations Behind the Compulsory Insurance with Earthquake Coverage.- 14. Derivative Effects of the 1999 Earthquake in Taiwan to U.S. Personal Computer Manufacturers.- 15. Insurance Markets for Earthquake Risks in Turkey: An Overview.