Staff profiles
Jacob Pastor-PazNatural Hazards Risk Modeller
Qualifications
- BSc, Economics and Public Policy
- MSc, Geomatics/Cartography
- PhD, Economics
Areas of expertise
- Technical: GIS
- Geology: Digital terrain models
- Geophysics: Hazard and risk assessment
- Financial: Business, economic & policy analysis
- Technical: Cartography
- Geology: Map production
- Financial: Project Management
- Social Science: Survey data analysis
- Social Science: Natural Hazards Research
- Technical: Digital Photogrammetry
- Business Development: Risk Transfer
- Social Science: Economics
- Social Science: Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation
- Social Science: Microeconometrics
- Business Development: Statistical modeling
- Technical: Spatiotemporal methods and modeling
- Technical: Image clasification and clustering
- Technical: Remote sensing data applications
- Geophysics: Landslide Modelling
- Business Development: GIS
- Business Development: programming
- Social Science: Socio-economic impacts
- Business Development: Impact Assessment
- Business Development: Data Science
- Business Development: Social Science Research Methods
- Business Development: Climate Science
- Business Development: Sea-level Rise
Major Publications
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- On the attribution of the impacts of extreme weather events to anthropogenic climate change, Environmental Research Letters 17(2): article 024009. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac44c8.
- Measuring the impact of insurance on recovery after extreme weather events using nightlights, Asia-Pacific Journal of Risk and Insurance 15(2): p. 169-199. DOI: 10.1515/apjri-2020-0036.
- Projecting the effect of climate change on residential property damages caused by extreme weather events, Journal of Environmental Management 276: article 111012. DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.111012.
- Seismic policy, operations, and research uses for a building inventory in an earthquake--prone city, International Journal of Disaster Risk Science 11: p. 709-718. DOI: 10.1007/s13753-020-00313-7.
- Ecuadorian infant mortality linked to socioeconomic factors during the last 30 years, Revista Brasileira de Saúde Materno Infantil 19(2): p. 295-301. DOI: 10.1590/1806-93042019000200003.
- Integrating and geolocating post earthquake building damage surveys : the 7.8 Mw Jama-Pedernales earthquake, Ecuador, Spatial Information Research 27: p. 317-328. DOI: 10.1007/s41324-018-0230-y.
- A detailed inventory of medium to high-rise buildings in Wellington's central business district, Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering 52(4): p. 172-192. DOI: 10.5459/BNZSEE.52.4.172-192.
- Public insurance and climate change (part one) : past trends in weather-related insurance in New Zealand DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3477038.
- Soil transmitted helminthiasis in indigenous groups. A community cross sectional study in the Amazonian southern border region of Ecuador, BMJ Open 7(3): e013626. DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-013626.