Roads or Radar: Investing in Infrastructure or Improved Forecasting in the Face of Tropical Cyclone Risk
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Even with the advanced technology of forecasting and current infrastructure to mitigate the loss from natural hazards, people suffer from devastating hurricanes every year. Although Nature or a natural system creates such storms, humans can still forecast and respond to them. A forecasting system predicts the natural system, and a transportation system reacts to it. The interactions of these human systems with each other and with the natural system are illustrated in Fig. 1. A government official or other decision maker (DM) who is in charge of the response to emergencies has to decide the relative amounts to invest in a forecasting system, the transportation system, or infrastructure for protection from the natural hazard.
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