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Environmental Risk Assessment

The world is a dirty place and getting dirtier all the time. The reasons for this ever-increasing lack of cleanliness are ...

Environmental and Health Risk Assessment and Management

The book covers the essential aspects of environmental and health law, environmental economics, applied statistical and probabilistic ...

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 ...

Fire Safety for Very Tall Buildings : Engineering Guide / International Code Council

Provides information on special topics that affect the fire safety performance of very tall buildings, their occupants and ...

Flood Risk Management in Europe

This valuable edition brings together 26 peer reviewed articles on technical, socio-economic, environmental and policy aspects ...

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, ...

From Disaster Response to Risk Management

In 1992 Australia’s Commonwealth and State governments announced the introduction of a National Drought Policy adopting ...

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 ...

Global Change and Mountain Regions:

Mountain regions occupy about a quarter of the global terrestrial land surface and provide goods and services to more than ...

Hazardous Chemicals in Products and Processes

ubstitution of hazardous substances is a prioritised objective in chemical regulation and risk management. However, it is ...

Historical Seismology : Interdisciplinary Studies of Past and Recent Earthquakes

Modern seismology has faced new challenges in the study of earthquakes and their physical characteristics. This volume is ...

Innovation in Life Cycle Engineering and Sustainable Development

Business models, which aims at determining how efficient can be a life cycle strategy from different point of view (customer, ...

Interlocal Adaptations to Climate Change in East and Southeast Asia : Sharing Lessons of Agriculture, Disaster Risk Reduction, and Resource Management

This Obook’s main focus is agriculture and natural resource management, disaster risk reduction, and human resource development ...

International Perspectives on Natural Disasters: Occurrence, Mitigation, and Consequences

Reports of natural disasters fill the media with regularity. Places in the world are affected by natural disaster events ...

International conference on: Terrain and geohazard challenges facing onshore oil and gas pipelines: Proceedings of a three day international conference on terrain and geohazard challenges facing onshore oil and gas pipelines, organised by the Institution of Civil Engineers in association with BP Exploration and held at the Institution of Civil Engineers, London, UK, on 2 – 4 June 2004

To access global oil and gas deposits, major pipelines must traverse remote regions with extreme terrains. There are a significant ...

Landslide Risk Assessment, Second edition

Landslide Risk Assessment provides guidance to practitioners on establishing the likelihood and extent to which future slope ...

Landslide risk assessment

Over the past decade there has been a gradual shift away from simply relying on engineering solutions to individual landslide ...

Louisiana's Response to Extreme Weather A Coastal State's Adaptation Challenges and Successes

This book takes an in-depth look at Louisiana as a state which is ahead of the curve in terms of extreme weather events, ...

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