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

Presents the potential and toxic effects of building materials on human health, along with tactics on how to minimize exposure. ...

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

Povides readers with the tools needed to determine the probability of failure, and when multiplied by the consequences of ...

This book points out the need of a multidisciplinary approach in the field of risk assessment and management. It provides ...

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

Presents the theoretical background of building physics, dealing with the evaluation of physical phenomena related to heat ...

The book clearly shows the interdependence of risk measures. Safety and risks cannot be discussed only by looking at specific ...

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

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

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

In many parts of the world, climatic variations are recognized as one of the major factors contributing to land degradation ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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