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Advances in Assessment and Modeling of Earthquake Loss

This book originates from an international workshop organized by Turkish Natural Catastrophe Insurance Pool (TCIP) in November ...

Advancing Culture of Living with Landslides

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This volume contains peer-reviewed papers from the Fourth World Landslide ...

Avalanche Dynamics

Avalanches, debris, mudflows and landslides are common and natural phenomena that occur worldwide, predominantly in mountainous ...

Catastrophic Events Caused by Cosmic Objects

Many times all of us could hear from mass media that an asteroid approached and swept past the Earth. Such an asteroid or ...

Civil Engineering for Disaster Risk Reduction / Sreevalsa Kolathayar, Indrajit Pal, Siau Chen Chian, Arpita Mondal

Brings together all diverse disciplines of civil engineering and related areas (for example, geotechnical engineering, water ...

Climate Adaptation Modelling

This book focuses on an issue only marginally tackled by this literature: the still existing gap between adaptation science ...

Concrete Structures : Design and Residual Capacity Assessment / Enrique Hernández-Montes, Luisa María Gil-Martín

Based primarily on Eurocode 2, this book offers a comprehensive exploration of theory alongside a substantial collection ...

Critique de la valeur fondamentale

This work takes stock of the different conceptions of fundamental value in finance, the methods of its calculation and the ...

Dangerous of Pharmaceutical Waste From Hospitals and Homes on Human and Environment / Ahmad Alkhateb ; Elaf Al Oleij ; Mahmoud Al Sallakh

The occurrence of pharmaceuticals in environment originating from hospitals and household waste has received increased scientific ...

Deltas in the Anthropocene

The Anthropocene is the human-dominated modern era that has accelerated social, environmental and climate change across the ...

Design of Hybrid Structures : Where Steel Profiles Meet Concrete / Andre Plumier, Herve Degee

Focuses on design approaches for concrete structures reinforced in an unconventional way by steel profiles. It explains force ...

Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy : Principles and Applications

This book reviews the basics of atmospheric chemistry, radiation transport, and optical spectroscopy before detailing the ...

Disasters: Core Concepts and Ethical Theories

This Open Access Book is the first to examine disasters from a multidisciplinary perspective. Justification of actions in ...

Earthquake Disaster Simulation of Civil Infrastructures : From Tall Buildings to Urban Areas / Xinzheng Lu , Hong Guan

Covers a range of numerical modeling approaches, higher performance computation methods, and high fidelity visualization ...

Earthquakes, Tsunamis and Nuclear Risks : Prediction and Assessment Beyond the Fukushima Accident

This book covers seismic probabilistic risk assessment (S-PRA) and related studies which have become more important to increase ...

Essentials of Industrial Pharmacy / Saeed Ahmad Khan

Presents various pharmaceutical processes and equipment that are frequently used for production of pharmaceutical dosage ...

Extremes in Nature

The study of the statistics of extreme events is an essential first step in the mitigation of natural catastrophies, that ...

Fossil Earthquakes: The Formation and Preservation of Pseudotachylytes

This book encompass the principl results of field investigations, analyses of meso-scale and micro-scale textures and structures, ...

Geological Atlas of Africa

Here is the new edition of the first attempt to summarize the geology of Africa by presenting it in an atlas and to synthesize ...

Geological Atlas of Africa : With Notes on Stratigraphy, Tectonics, Economic Geology, Geohazards, Geosites and Geoscientific Education of Each Country

T is atlas is intended primarily for anybody who is in-some background for the arrangement of how the terested in basic geology ...

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