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Innovations in Impact and Blast Protections : Foam-Filled Energy Absorbers and Steel-Concrete-Steel Sandwich Structures / Yonghui Wang , Xudong Zhi , Ximei Zhai

This book develops several novel foam-filled structures and steel-concrete-steel (SCS) sandwich structures, which provides ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Mitigation of Natural Hazards and Disasters

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

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 ...

Pharmaceuticals in the Environment : Sources, Fate, Effects and Risks

When the first green wave appeared in the mid and late 1960s, it was considered a f- sible task to solve pollution problems. ...

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 ...

Risk Assessment, Modeling and Decision Support

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

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 ...

Satisfying Safety Goals by Probabilistic Risk Assessment

Safety is one of the most important issues today. Recent international standards such as ISO and IEC have consistently advocated ...

Science of Societal Safety

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

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