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Critical infrastructures : risk and vulnerability assessment in transportatio…
This book addresses a key issue in today's society: the safer transport of dangerous goods, taking into account people, the environment and economics. In particular, it offers a potential approach to identifying the issues, developing the models, providing the methods and recommending the tools to address the risks and vulnerabilities involved. We believe this can only be achieved by assessing …
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- 1
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- 9783319309316
- Collation
- xv, 218 pages
- Series Title
- Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
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- 330
Dynamics of disasters : key concepts, models, algorithms, and insights ; Kala…
This volume results from the "Second International Conference on Dynamics of Disasters" held in Kalamata, Greece, June 29-July 2, 2015. The conference covered particular topics involved in natural and man-made disasters such as war, chemical spills, and wildfires. Papers in this volume examine the finer points of disasters through: · Critical infrastructure protection · Resiliency · Humanita…
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- -
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- 9783319437095
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- Call Number
- 338.7
Economic cycles in emerging and advanced countries : synchronization, interna…
This book contributes to the debate on the decoupling of emerging economies from the advanced economies with a new, empirical investigation approach. Taking counterfactual experiments performed using a time-varying panel VAR model, the author argues that over the last thirty years, emerging economies have become less vulnerable to shocks spreading from advanced economies. This resilience to ext…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783319170855
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- xviii, 173 pages
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- 338.7
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