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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Advances in the toxicity of construction and building materials / Fernando Pacheco-Torgal, Joseph O. Falkinham, Jerzy Galaj
Presents the potential and toxic effects of building materials on human health, along with tactics on how to minimize exposure. ...
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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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Assessing and Managing Earthquake Risk
This book points out the need of a multidisciplinary approach in the field of risk assessment and management. It provides ...
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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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Building Physics : Heat, Ventilation, Moisture, Light, Sound, Fire, and Urban Microclimate / SaSo Medved
Presents the theoretical background of building physics, dealing with the evaluation of physical phenomena related to heat ...
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Catalogue of Risks : Natural, Technical, Social and Health Risks
The book clearly shows the interdependence of risk measures. Safety and risks cannot be discussed only by looking at specific ...
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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 ...
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Civil Engineering for Disaster Risk Reduction / Sreevalsa Kolathayar, Indrajit Pal, Siau Chen Chian, Arpita Mondal
Brings together all diverse disciplines of civil engineering and related areas (for example, geotechnical engineering, water ...
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This book focuses on an issue only marginally tackled by this literature: the still existing gap between adaptation science ...
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Climate and Land Degradation
In many parts of the world, climatic variations are recognized as one of the major factors contributing to land degradation ...
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Critique de la valeur fondamentale
This work takes stock of the different conceptions of fundamental value in finance, the methods of its calculation and the ...
Lee masDangerous of Pharmaceutical Waste From Hospitals and Homes on Human and Environment / Ahmad Alkhateb ; Elaf Al Oleij ; Mahmoud Al Sallakh
The occurrence of pharmaceuticals in environment originating from hospitals and household waste has received increased scientific ...
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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 Geotechnical Engineering
This book contains the full papers on which the invited lectures of the 4th International Conference on Geotechnical Earthquake ...
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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Ecological and Health Effects of Building Materials / Junaid Ahmad Malik, Shriram Marathe
Deals with the present adverse effects of using precarious building materials on the ecology and human health. Also, the ...
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Environmental Change and Human Security: Recognizing and Acting on Hazard Impacts
This book focuses on the linkage between human and environmental security and takes both a conceptual and a pragmatic approach ...
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