文档介绍：The Use of Benefit-Cost Analysis for Evaluation of Performance-BBased Earthquake Engineering Decisions
Richard O. Zerbe
Evans School of Public Afairs
University Washington
and
Anthony Falit-Baiamonte
Department Geography
University Washington
A report on research conducted under
grant no. CMS-98121531 from the National Science Foundation:
.- Japan Cooperative Research in Urban Earthquake Disaster Mitigation
PEER Report 1999/00
Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center
College of Engineering
University of California, Berkeley
September 2001
ABSTRACT
This report provides: an overview of benefit-cost analysis (BCA);, an application of benefit-cost analysis to the performance-based earthquake engineering (PBEE) framework;, consideration of critical issues in using benefit-cost analysis for PBEE;, and a discussion of issues, criticisms, and limitations of benefit-cost analysis. Our objective is to provide an understanding of the economic dimensions of PEER’s framework equation. A focus on economic evaluation will broaden the framework so that facility damage in earthquakes can be related to functionality, business interruption and revenue loss, andas well as to repair costs. Such an analysis needs to consider issues such as, the time value of money, uncertainty, and the perspectives of different stakeholders.
The application of BCA to PBEE has produced a number of important findings. Firstly, we have developed an example is developed that illustrates the way in which performance criteria can be operationalized in an economic context. Next,We have also identified a number of benefit categories are identified (cost of emergency response and loss of long-term revenue), which that have not been previously considered in studies of seismic mitigation decision making. Additionally, we have indicated several critical issues are examined, most notably multiple stakeholders and uncertainty, which that need to be considered when performing carrying out