Dr. John D Morgan

This chapter uses the comparative analysis of varying approaches to issues geographical position and the balance between ecosystem service amenity (e.g., distance-to-shore and view), sub-national policies, and natural hazard risk. We provide an overview of current policies in place, a review of the amenity-based analysis of the risk averseness, explicit incentives, and governance structures to make the housing market account for low-probability catastrophic risk scenarios. We look how effective markets compensate for incorporated natural hazard risks. The book chapter draws on comparison to the emergent practices in regional settings in Florida and compare the emergent practices in Cuba and/or Caribbean region and provides for potential applicability of models. These are all places with similar risk exposure and morphology but vary on national and sub-national institutions.

Time geography offers a rich framework for representing movement across space and time. An extension of time geography to crime mapping, as proposed by the models discussed in this chapter, requires an accounting for victim and offender mobility under event-related constraints (e.g. accessibility to a crime scene). This chapter discusses results from a study that evaluates the usability of 3D space-time cube maps for representing crime patterns. Also ­considered is the utility of the time-geographic framework for exploring crime events that occur at unknown points in space and time. To this end, this chapter discusses the problem of crime activities that are not amenable to point-based mapping, potential alternative visualization methods using time-geographic techniques, and the procedures and results of usability tests wherein participants were asked to interpret maps that incorporated various time-geographic ­attributes. The overall purpose of the study was to assess the practicality of using time geography within a crime mapping context.