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Coping study on disaster resilient infrastructure
This study provides comprehensive analysis of the impact of natural hazards on infrastructure and discusses possibilities to improve its resilience and prevent disasters. It presents several disaster risk management measures to reduce risks caused by wind load, snow and ice avalanche, rock fall, landslide, impulse wave, earthquake, forest fire and flood.
The study describes effective technological solutions for improving infrastructural defence.
- Date:
- 1999
- Pages:
- 78 p.
- Sources:
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- International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR)
Related Links
- International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR) programme forum 1999 - proceedings
- Coping study on risk and society
- Coping study on technology for disaster reduction
Keywords
- Themes:
- Disaster Risk Management, Structural Safety, Critical Infrastructure
- Hazards:
- Earthquake, Flood, Land Slide, Avalanche, Wild Fire
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The Fourth Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction will take place in Geneva, Switzerland in May 2013.
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