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Flood Risk Management Assessment and Strategy
This book examines the nature of flood in different landscapes and the various factors that contribute to flooding in different areas. It identifies...
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Debris-Flow Risk Assessment
Risk assessments can inform a wide variety of decisions related to debris flows, such as: Is the community safe enough? Where is mitigation needed?...
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Landslide Risk Assessment, Awareness, and Risk Mitigation: Case Studies and Major Insights
Landslide is one of the major environmental disasters which affects both our natural ecosystems and human well-being. Therefore, a comprehensive...
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Geohazards and Disaster Risk Reduction Multidisciplinary and Integrated Approaches
This book provides a comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach to addressing geohazards, with topics such as social vulnerability reduction, risk...
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Landslide risk management: from hazard to disaster risk reduction
Integrated disaster risk management is crucial in reducing landslide risk. The International Consortium on Landslides has launched several...
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Risk, Uncertainty and Maladaptation to Climate Change Policy, Practice and Case Studies
This book focuses on integrated disaster risk reduction arising out of climate change and shows how communities build resilience through adaptive and...
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Participatory Risk Governance for Seoul, South Korea’s Flood Risk Management
Risk governance is a widely used framework in natural and societal risk management research. Risks from natural hazards in urban areas call for the...
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Disaster Risk Reduction for Resilience Climate Change and Disaster Risk Adaptation
This book is part of a six-volume series on Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience. The series aims to fill in gaps in theory and practice in the...
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Matching Monitoring, Risk Allocation and Geotechnical Baseline Reports
Monitoring ground and construction behaviour is a well-known risk mitigation tool during the construction of many European infrastructure projects....
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Risk Management
Throughout human history, disasters have often threatened society and regional development. Humans have struggled to ward off disasters since ancient...
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Indigenous Knowledge and Disaster Risk Reduction Insight Towards Perception, Response, Adaptation and Sustainability
The book seeks to comprehend how indigenous knowledge systems of local communities can be effectively used in disaster management of various types. A...
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Unpacking risk perceptions of COVID-19 in China: insights for risk management and policy-making
An analysis of risk perceptions during public health emergencies is crucial for effective risk management and policy-making. This paper examines risk...
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Landslide: Susceptibility, Risk Assessment and Sustainability Application of Geostatistical and Geospatial Modeling
The book illustrates a geospatial and geostatistical approach to data analysis, modeling, risk assessment, and visualization, as well as landslide...
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Characteristics of Risk
Risk, as opposed to the physical hazard, always involves consequences like damages or losses. Risk is a concept which is difficult to grasp, partly...
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Incorporating Future Earthquake Risk in Disaster Risk Management
Factors such as the increase in the global population, economic growth, climate change, and aging infrastructure are contributing to the increase in...
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Risk analysis of rainstorm-urban lifeline system disaster chain based on the PageRank-risk matrix and complex network
Rainstorm disasters cause serious threats to people’s lives and property. Enhancing emergency response and decision-making capabilities for rainstorm...
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From Risk to Resilience: Analyzing Key Success Factors in Malaysian Water Risk Management
The study examines critical success factors (SF) while develo** water risk management (WRM) by Malaysian water operators (WO). Seven critical...
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Risk Control in TBM Construction
This chapter focuses on the introduction of classification of TBM construction risks and construction risk analysis, with special attention to the...
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Disaster Risk Assessment
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, 2015–2030 (UNDRR, Sendai framework for disaster risk reduction, 2015) of the UN, lists...
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Three-Dimensional Risk Matrix for Risk Assessment of Tailings Storage Facility Failure: Theory and a Case Study
Tailings storage facility (TSF) failures have tremendous impacts on surrounding populations, communities, and ecosystems. Therefore, a...
