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International conference on: Terrain and geohazard challenges facing onshore oil and gas pipelines: Proceedings of a three day international conference on terrain and geohazard challenges facing onshore oil and gas pipelines, organised by the Institution of Civil Engineers in association with BP Exploration and held at the Institution of Civil Engineers, London, UK, on 2 – 4 June 2004

To access global oil and gas deposits, major pipelines must traverse remote regions with extreme terrains. There are a significant ...

Landslide Risk Assessment, Second edition

Landslide Risk Assessment provides guidance to practitioners on establishing the likelihood and extent to which future slope ...

Landslide risk assessment

Over the past decade there has been a gradual shift away from simply relying on engineering solutions to individual landslide ...

MARE-WINT : New Materials and Reliability in Offshore Wind Turbine Technology

This book provides a holistic, interdisciplinary overview of offshore wind energy, and is a must-read for advanced researchers. ...

Managing Risk and Information Security : Protect to Enable

This edition discusses business risk from a broader perspective, including privacy and regulatory considerations. It describes ...

Managing Risk and Information Security : Protect to Enable

Examine the evolving enterprise security landscape and discover how to manage and survive risk. While based primarily on ...

Mitigation of Natural Hazards and Disasters

This book examines the aspects of prevention, mitigation, and management of environmental hazards and disasters from an international ...

Modern Biogeochemistry

At present, quantitative ecological risk assessment is widely used in different contexts, however very often without an understanding ...

Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis for Risk Assessment and Management / Jingzheng Ren

Provides in-depth guidance on how to use multi-criteria decision analysis methods for risk assessment and risk management. ...

Nanotechnology

A new definition of Nanotechnology by the authors is used as an anchor for the various sections of the book. This leads to ...

Nanotechnology and Occupational Health

Nanotechnology is rapidly invading many aspects of modern society - from science, research and engineering to industrial ...

Oil Spill Response: A Global Perspective

This book provides a timely international perspective on applied research and development, technology transfer, and “lessons ...

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 ...

Risk Assessment : Decisions in Banking and Finance

New developments in assessing and managing risk are discussed in this volume. Addressing both practitioners in the banking ...

Risk Assessment and Oral Diagnostics in Clinical Dentistry / Dena J. Fischer, Nathaniel S. Treister, Andres Pinto

Risk Assessment and Oral Diagnostics in Clinical Dentistry aims to enable the dental practitioner to comfortably and capably ...

Risk Assessment, Modeling and Decision Support

The papers in this volume integrate results from current research efforts in earthquake engineering with research from the ...

Risk Assessment: Theory, Methods, and Applications / Marvin Rausand, Stein Haugen

The book begins with an introduction of risk analysis, assessment, and management, and includes a new section on the history ...

Risk-Conscious Operations Management : An Integrated Paradigm for Complex Engineering System / Prabhakar V. Varde

Presents various concepts and applications related to risk-conscious operations management. It also provides an overview ...

Science of Societal Safety

This book covers comprehensive but fundamental principles and concepts of disaster and accident prevention and mitigation, ...

The Illusion of Certainty

The Illusion of Certainty: Health Benefits and Risks peels away the "veneer of certainty" which many of us attach to health ...

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