Publications

USGS releases our risk-related science through USGS publications and journal articles. A curated collection of these publications is available below. 🚧This page is under construction.

October 29, 2022

Multi-hazard risk analysis for the U.S. Department of the Interior: An integration of expert elicitation, planning priorities, and geospatial analysis Multi-hazard risk analysis for the U.S. Department of the Interior: An integration of expert elicitation, planning priorities, and geospatial analysis

An integral part of disaster risk management is identifying and prioritizing hazards and their potential impacts in a meaningful way to support risk-reduction planning. There has been considerable use and subsequent criticism of threat prioritization efforts that simply compare likelihoods and consequences of plausible threats. This article summarizes a new mixed-methods and scalable...

Authors

Nathan J. Wood, Alice B. Pennaz, Jason Marineau, Jeanne M. Jones, Jamie Jones, Peter Ng, Kevin Henry

Natural Hazards Mission Area, Western Geographic Science Center, Office of Risk and Resilience