Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Invitational Workshop Proceedings, May 14-15, 1998 : Defining the Links Between Planning, Policy Analysis, Economics and Earthquake Engineering.

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TextPublication details: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California, Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Centre, 1998Description: 84 pDDC classification:

624.1762 21

Subject: The recently established PEER Center is committed to integrating social science and earthquake engineering research. How should integration proceed? What can social scientists contribute to PEER's interest in performance-based engineering? These and other questions were addressed at the wokshop. Generally, it appears that whereas performance-based engineering seeks optimal solutions to the achievement of given standards, social scientists can contribute to the deviation of optimal standards. In this sense, the complementarity of social science and earthquake engineering is clear. The details, of course, are where the interesting issues lie. There is no single social science perspective. And, the aggregation of individuals' preferences to some social welfare function from which optimal standards of structural design can be inferred is problematic. These two thoughts were repeated in various forms throughout two days of the meetings

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Books	Australian Emergency Management Library	BOOK	F624.1762 PAC (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		900070442

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Report no. PEER-98/04

The recently established PEER Center is committed to integrating social science and earthquake engineering research. How should integration proceed? What can social scientists contribute to PEER's interest in performance-based engineering? These and other questions were addressed at the wokshop. Generally, it appears that whereas performance-based engineering seeks optimal solutions to the achievement of given standards, social scientists can contribute to the deviation of optimal standards. In this sense, the complementarity of social science and earthquake engineering is clear. The details, of course, are where the interesting issues lie. There is no single social science perspective. And, the aggregation of individuals' preferences to some social welfare function from which optimal standards of structural design can be inferred is problematic. These two thoughts were repeated in various forms throughout two days of the meetings

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