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  title info:
    title: Urban disaster mitigation
    sub title: the role of engineering and technology
  name:
    name part: Cheng, Franklin Y.
  name:
    name part: Sheu, Maw Shyong.
  name:
    name part: ScienceDirect (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: conference publication
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Congress
  genre: proceedings (reports)
  genre: Conference papers and proceedings
  genre: Conference papers and proceedings.
  genre: Actes de congrès.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Oxford, OX, UK
    place:
      place term: Tarrytown, N.Y., U.S.A
    publisher: Elsevier
    date issued: 1995
    edition: 1st ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xxii, 320 pages) : illustrations, maps
  abstract: Great loss of human life, structural damage, and social and economic upheaval occur repeatedly due to such natural hazards as earthquakes, typhoons, hurricanes, landslides, floods and tsunamis. Both the US and Taiwan, along with many other countries, have a history of such occurrences and a common need to reduce their effects. This volume includes papers from the fourth symposium workshop, held jointly between the US and Taiwan to discuss research and its application to multiple hazard mitigation. The workshop, Urban Disaster Mitigation, The Role of Engineering and Technology, discussed lessons learned from recent natural disasters; assessed results of Taiwan's multiple hazards research program and potential application to the US; and proposed further studies on subjects of mutual concern. Topics include recent scientific findings obtained in various natural hazard areas and assessment of actual and potential damage from earthquakes, floods and landslides. Of particular importance are measures that can be taken to mitigate these hazards ranging from use of new algorithms for structural engineering to warning systems for a given region. At a time when natural disasters are widespread, engineers play a key role. Construction methods and building codes are changing; current knowledge shapes the direction of these changes. The research results presented in these proceedings will benefit both the academic and practicing communities around the world, strengthening the relationship between these two important parties.
  table of contents: Preface. Symposium/Workshop Activities. Resolutions. Seismology. Earthquake Engineering. Landslides and Rockslides. Flood Engineering. Socio-Economic Impact. Index of Contributors.
  note: edited by F.Y. Cheng and M.-S Sheu.
  note: Papers presented at a fourth joint symposium workshop held in Chicago, July 1994.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
  subject:
    topic: Earthquake engineering
    genre: Congresses
  subject:
    topic: Natural disasters
    genre: Congresses
  subject:
    topic: Earthquake hazard analysis
    genre: Congresses
  subject:
    topic: Landslides
    genre: Congresses
  subject:
    topic: Flood control
    genre: Congresses
  subject:
    topic: Génie parasismique
    genre: Congrès
  subject:
    topic: Catastrophes naturelles
    genre: Congrès
  subject:
    topic: Risques sismiques
    genre: Congrès
  subject:
    topic: Inondations
    topic: Maîtrise
    genre: Congrès
  subject:
    topic: TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
    topic: Structural
  subject:
    topic: Earthquake engineering
  subject:
    topic: Earthquake hazard analysis
  subject:
    topic: Flood control
  subject:
    topic: Landslides
  subject:
    topic: Natural disasters
  subject:
    topic: Sismologia
  subject:
    topic: Structures
    topic: Stress (Mechanics)
  subject:
    topic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Taiwan (China)
  classification: TA654.6 .U73 1995eb
  classification: 624.1/76
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Urban disaster mitigation
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford, OX, UK ; Tarrytown, N.Y., U.S.A. : Elsevier, 1995
      edition: 1st ed.
    identifier: (DLC) 95012167
    identifier: (OCoLC)32626985
  identifier: 9780080419206
  identifier: 0080419208
  identifier: 9780080543468
  identifier: 0080543464
  identifier: 1281053864
  identifier: 9781281053862
  identifier: 128536:119515 Elsevier Science & Technology
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: OPELS
    record creation date: 070802
    record change date: 20260326150835.3
    record identifier: in00005732115
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng