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978-1-4020-4571-4
Advances in Earthquake Engineering for Urban Risk Reduction

It is the vulnerable buildings - liable to cause damage and loss of life - that need immediate attention and urgent appraisal ...

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978-1-4020-4959-0
Assessment and Remediation of Contaminated Sediments

Contaminated sediments pose some of the most difficult site remediation issues. Contaminated sediments typically reside in ...

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978-1-4020-6815-7
Earthquake Monitoring and Seismic Hazard Mitigation in Balkan Countries

this book including deployment of modern seismograph stations and arrays and these developments are detailed in the book. ...

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978-1-4020-5741-0
Extreme Hydrological Events: New Concepts for Security

This proceedings contains the papers which were presented at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) on Extreme Hydrological ...

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978-1-4020-4598-1
Flood Risk Management: Hazards, Vulnerability and Mitigation Measures

Floods are of increasing public concern world-wide due to increasing damages and unacceptably high numbers of injuries. Previous ...

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978-1-4020-5732-8
Implementing Integrated Water Resources Management in Central Asia

This volume reproduces the proceedings of an Advanced Research Workshop held in Bishkek, which brought together all the most ...

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978-1-4020-5986-5
Integrated Water Resources Management and Security in the Middle East

Integrated Water Resources Management and Security in the Middle East brings together diverse voices relating to the critical ...

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978-1-4020-4037-5
Landslides from Massive Rock Slope Failure

Amongst the thematic topics discussed are global frequency, impacts on society, analysis of initial rock slope failure, monitoring ...

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978-1-4020-4688-9
Phytoremediation of Metal-Contaminated Soils

Phytoremediation, the use of plants to remediate environmental media, is being pursued as a new approach for the cleanup ...

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978-1-4020-4649-0
Radiation and Environmental Safety in North-West Russia

The objective of this workshop was to examine how scientific research and environmental studies, including the effects and ...

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978-1-4020-6429-6
Regional Climate Variability and its Impacts in The Mediterranean Area

Global change due to natural processes and anthropogenic activity as well as the natural variability of the climate system ...

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978-1-4020-6992-5
Seasonal Climate: Forecasting and Managing Risk

Formed around a set of lectures presented at a NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI), this book has grown in scope and in aspiration ...

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978-1-4020-4902-6
Transboundary Floods: Reducing Risks Through Flood Management

Flood damages are increasing as a result of frequent occurrence of large floods in many parts of the world, existing and ...

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