Electronic Books

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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 ...

Historical Seismology : Interdisciplinary Studies of Past and Recent Earthquakes

Modern seismology has faced new challenges in the study of earthquakes and their physical characteristics. This volume is ...

Interlocal 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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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. ...

Observing the Volcano World

This book provides a comprehensive overview of volcanic crisis research, the goal being to establish ways of successfully ...

Perspectives 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 ...

Perspectives on European Earthquake Engineering and Seismology : Volume 2

The book’s nineteen state-of-the-art chapters were written by the most prominent researchers in Europe and address a comprehensive ...

Proportional Hazards Regression

The place in survival analysis now occupied by proportional hazards models and their generalizations is so large that it ...

Reflections on Slope Stability Engineering / Edward N. Bromhead

Contains the detailed reflections of its author, who has practised and researched in the field for over a half-century. It ...

Rock Slope Engineering : Civil Applications / Duncan C. Wyllie

Covers the investigation, design, excavation and remediation of man-made rock cuts and natural slopes, primarily for civil ...

Structural Dynamics in Earthquake and Blast Resistant Design / BK Raghu Prasad

Focussing on structural dynamics required for earthquake resistant design, the book describes equations of motion, vibrations ...

Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences

This book provides a world-wide perspective of submarine mass movements and their consequences. This has been made possible ...

The Demography of Disasters Impacts for Population and Place

This book provides worldwide examples demonstrating the importance of the interplay between demography and disasters in ...

Tsunami : The Underrated Hazard (Second Edition)

Tsunami: The Underrated Hazard, 2nd Edition, comprehensively describes the nature and process of tsunami formation, outlines ...

Tsunami and Nonlinear Waves

The need for tsunami research and analysis has grown dramatically following the devastating tsunami of December 2004, which ...

Tunnel Design Methods / Antonio Bobet, Herbert H. Einstein

Covers analytical, numerical and empirical methods for the design of tunnels in soil and in rock. It gives detailed analytical ...

Volcanic Unrest : From Science to Society

Volcanic unrest is a complex multi-hazard phenomenon. The fact that unrest may, or may not lead to an imminent eruption contributes ...

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