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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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