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This volume is dedicated to the memory of Barclay G. Jones,
Professor of City and Regional Planning and Regional Science at
Cornell University. Over a decade ago, Barclay took on a fledgling
area of study - economic modeling of disasters - and nurtured its
early development. He served as the social science program director
at the National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (NCEER),
a university consortium sponsored by the National Science
Foundation and the Federal Emergency Management Agency of the
United States. In this capacity, Barclay shepherded and attracted a
number of regional scientists to the study of disasters. He
organized a conference, held in the ill-fated World Trade Center in
September 1995, on "The Economic Consequences of Earthquakes:
Preparing for the Unexpected. " He persistently advocated the
importance of social science research in an establishment dominated
by less-than-sympathetic natural scientists and engineers. In 1993,
Barclay organized the first of a series of sessions on "Measuring
Regional Economic Effects of Unscheduled Events" at the North
American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International
(RSAI). This unusual nomenclature brought attention to the
challenge that disasters -largely unanticipated, often sudden, and
always disorderly - pose to the regional science modeling
tradition. The sessions provided an annual forum for a growing
coalition of researchers, where previously the literature had been
fragmentary, scattered, and episodic. Since Barclay's unexpected
passing in 1997, we have continued this effort in his tradition.
This volume is dedicated to the memory of Barclay G. Jones,
Professor of City and Regional Planning and Regional Science at
Cornell University. Over a decade ago, Barclay took on a fledgling
area of study - economic modeling of disasters - and nurtured its
early development. He served as the social science program director
at the National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (NCEER),
a university consortium sponsored by the National Science
Foundation and the Federal Emergency Management Agency of the
United States. In this capacity, Barclay shepherded and attracted a
number of regional scientists to the study of disasters. He
organized a conference, held in the ill-fated World Trade Center in
September 1995, on "The Economic Consequences of Earthquakes:
Preparing for the Unexpected. " He persistently advocated the
importance of social science research in an establishment dominated
by less-than-sympathetic natural scientists and engineers. In 1993,
Barclay organized the first of a series of sessions on "Measuring
Regional Economic Effects of Unscheduled Events" at the North
American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International
(RSAI). This unusual nomenclature brought attention to the
challenge that disasters -largely unanticipated, often sudden, and
always disorderly - pose to the regional science modeling
tradition. The sessions provided an annual forum for a growing
coalition of researchers, where previously the literature had been
fragmentary, scattered, and episodic. Since Barclay's unexpected
passing in 1997, we have continued this effort in his tradition.
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