Electronic Books

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Mitigation of Natural Hazards and Disasters

This book examines the aspects of prevention, mitigation, and management of environmental hazards and disasters from an international ...

Model Tests and Numerical Simulations of Liquefaction and Lateral Spreading LEAP-UCD-2017

This book presents work collected through the Liquefaction Experiments and Analysis Projects (LEAP) in 2017. It addresses ...

Nature-Based Flood Risk Management on Private Land

This book addresses the various disciplinary aspects of nature-based solutions in flood risk management on private land. ...

Observing the Volcano World

This book provides a comprehensive overview of volcanic crisis research, the goal being to establish ways of successfully ...

Perspectives on European Earthquake Engineering and Seismology : Volume 1

This book collects 5 keynote and 15 theme lectures presented at the 2nd European Conference on Earthquake Engineering and ...

Perspectives on European Earthquake Engineering and Seismology : Volume 2

The book’s nineteen state-of-the-art chapters were written by the most prominent researchers in Europe and address a comprehensive ...

Pharmaceuticals in the Environment : Sources, Fate, Effects and Risks

When the first green wave appeared in the mid and late 1960s, it was considered a f- sible task to solve pollution problems. ...

Proportional Hazards Regression

The place in survival analysis now occupied by proportional hazards models and their generalizations is so large that it ...

Risk Assessment, Modeling and Decision Support

The papers in this volume integrate results from current research efforts in earthquake engineering with research from the ...

Satisfying Safety Goals by Probabilistic Risk Assessment

Safety is one of the most important issues today. Recent international standards such as ISO and IEC have consistently advocated ...

Science of Societal Safety

This book covers comprehensive but fundamental principles and concepts of disaster and accident prevention and mitigation, ...

Slope Stability and Erosion Control: Ecotechnological Solutions

This book is designed to assist the civil and geotechnical engineer, geomorphologist, forester, landscape architect or ecologist ...

Small-scale Freshwater Toxicity Investigations

This broad review is the first to gather comprehensive information on the complete contemporary range of toxicity testing ...

Small-scale Freshwater Toxicity Investigations

Contains 11 chapters on hazard assessment schemes. This work allows readers to know the different approaches/strategies, ...

Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences

This book provides a world-wide perspective of submarine mass movements and their consequences. This has been made possible ...

The Demography of Disasters Impacts for Population and Place

This book provides worldwide examples demonstrating the importance of the interplay between demography and disasters in ...

Tsunami : The Underrated Hazard (Second Edition)

Tsunami: The Underrated Hazard, 2nd Edition, comprehensively describes the nature and process of tsunami formation, outlines ...

Tsunami and Nonlinear Waves

The need for tsunami research and analysis has grown dramatically following the devastating tsunami of December 2004, which ...

Tsunamis

A timely review of state-of-the-art tsunami research, covering case studies and recent developments from various approaches. ...

Urban and Community Forestry in the Northeast

This book serves as a textbook for Urban/Community Forestry courses and a handbook for Shade Tree Commissions, tree wardens, ...

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