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 ...
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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 ...
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Avalanche Dynamics
Avalanches, debris, mudflows and landslides are common and natural phenomena that occur worldwide, predominantly in mountainous ...
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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 ...
Lee masClimate Adaptation Modelling
This book focuses on an issue only marginally tackled by this literature: the still existing gap between adaptation science ...
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Deltas in the Anthropocene
The Anthropocene is the human-dominated modern era that has accelerated social, environmental and climate change across the ...
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Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy : Principles and Applications
This book reviews the basics of atmospheric chemistry, radiation transport, and optical spectroscopy before detailing the ...
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Disasters: Core Concepts and Ethical Theories
This Open Access Book is the first to examine disasters from a multidisciplinary perspective. Justification of actions in ...
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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 ...
Lee masEarthquakes, 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 ...
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Extremes in Nature
The study of the statistics of extreme events is an essential first step in the mitigation of natural catastrophies, that ...
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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, ...
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Geotechnical Slope Analysis / Robin Chowdhury, Gautam Bhattacharya, Subhadeep Metya
The influence of initial stresses, pore water pressures and seismic forces has been explored not only on performance indicators ...
Lee masInterlocal 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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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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. ...
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Observing the Volcano World
This book provides a comprehensive overview of volcanic crisis research, the goal being to establish ways of successfully ...
Lee masPerspectives 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 ...
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