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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Applied Civil Engineering Risk Analysis / Robb Eric S. Moss
Povides readers with the tools needed to determine the probability of failure, and when multiplied by the consequences of ...
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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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Concrete Structures : Design and Residual Capacity Assessment / Enrique Hernández-Montes, Luisa María Gil-Martín
Based primarily on Eurocode 2, this book offers a comprehensive exploration of theory alongside a substantial collection ...
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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 ...
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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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Design of Hybrid Structures : Where Steel Profiles Meet Concrete / Andre Plumier, Herve Degee
Focuses on design approaches for concrete structures reinforced in an unconventional way by steel profiles. It explains force ...
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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 ...
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