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    Perspectives on European Earthquake Engineering and Seismology : Volume 1 (2014)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Engineering ; Natural disasters ; Geotechnical engineering ; Civil engineering ; Engineering ; Civil Engineering ; Natural Hazards ; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface --- 1. The Full-Scale Laboratory: The Practice of Post-Earthquake Reconnaissance Missions and Their Contribution to Earthquake Engineering --- 2. Rapid Earthquake Loss Assessment after Damaging Earthquakes --- 3. Existing Buildings: The New Italian Provisions for Probabilistic Seismic Assessment --- 4. Seismic Response of Precast Industrial Buildings --- 5. The Role of Site Effects at The Boundary Between Seismology and Engineering: Lessons from Recent Earthquakes --- 6. Seismic Analysis and Design of Bridges with an Emphasis to Eurocode Standards --- 7. From Performance- and Displacement-Based Assessment of Existing Buildings per EN1998-3 to Design of New Concrete Structures in Fib MC2010 --- 8. Testing Historic Masonry Structural Elements and/or Building Models --- 9. Earthquake Risk Reduction: From Scenario Simulators Including Systemic Interdependency to Impact Indicators --- 10. Physics-Based Earthquake Ground Shaking Scenarios in Large Urban Areas --- 11. A Seismic Performance Classification Framework to Provide Increased Seismic Resilience --- 12. Towards Displacement-Based Seismic Design of Modern Unreinforced Masonry Structures --- 13. Pushover Analysis for Plan Irregular Building Structures --- 14. Recent Development and Application of Seismic Isolation and Energy Dissipation and Conditions for Their Correct Use --- 15. Conservation Principles and Performance-Based Strengthening of Heritage Buildings in Post-Event Reconstruction --- 16. Earthquake Risk Assessment: Present Shortcomings and Future Directions --- 17. The Role of Pile Diameter on Earthquake-Induced Bending --- 18. Predictive Models for Earthquake Response of Clay and Quick Clay Slopes.- 19. Recent Advances in Seismic Soil Liquefaction Engineering --- 20. Seismic Hazard and Seismic Design and Safety Aspects of Large Dam Projects
    Pages: Online-Ressource (VIII, 650 pages) , 373 illustrations, 263 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319071183
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-07118-3
    Language: English
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    Ecological Risk Assessment for Chlorpyrifos in Terrestrial and Aquatic Systems in the United States (2014)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Environment ; Environmental management ; Ecotoxicology ; Waste management ; Environment ; Ecotoxicology ; Environmental Management ; Waste Management/Waste Technology
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface --- Foreword by Keith Solomon and John Giesy --- Foreword by Coordinating Board of Editors --- Ecological Risk Assessment for Chlorpyrifos in Terrestrial and Aquatic Systems in The United States – Overview and Conclusions --- Properties and Uses of Chlorpyrifos in the United States --- Fate in the Environment and Long-Range Atmospheric Transport of the Organophosphorus Insecticide, Chlorpyrifos and its Oxon in the United States --- Exposures of Aquatic Organisms to the Organophosphorus Insecticide, Chlorpyrifos Resulting from Use in the United States --- Risks to Aquatic Organisms from Use of Chlorpyrifos in the United States --- Refined Avian Risk Assessment for Chlorpyrifos in the United States --- Risk to Pollinators from the Use of Chlorpyrifos in the United States --- Index
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XVI, 269 pages) , 40 illustrations
    ISBN: 9783319038650
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-03865-0
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    Aquaculture Perspective of Multi-Use Sites in the Open Ocean : The Untapped Potential for Marine Resources in the Anthropocene (2017)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Environment ; Environmental management ; Business ; Management science ; Law ; Building construction ; Marine sciences ; Freshwater ; Environment ; Marine & Freshwater Sciences ; Offshore Engineering ; Business and Management, general ; Law, general ; Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Foreword --- 2. Preface --- 3. Human Marine Resource Use --- 4 Species, Techniques and System Design, Environmental Impact --- 5. Aquaculture Governance --- 6. Aquaculture Economics --- 7. Case Studies --- 8. Synthesis – Pathways Towards Sustainable Ocean Food Production
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXII, 404 pages) , 128 illustrations, 104 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319511597
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-51159-7
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    Advancing Culture of Living with Landslides : Volume 1 ISDR-ICL Sendai Partnerships 2015-2025 (2017)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Earth sciences ; Natural disasters ; Engineering geology ; Engineering ; Geology ; Foundations ; Hydraulics ; Sustainable development ; Earth Sciences ; Natural Hazards ; Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics ; Sustainable Development
    Description / Table of Contents: ISDR-ICL Sendai Partnerships 2015-2025 --- The ISDR-ICL Sendai Partnerships 2015-2025: Background and Content --- Forum lectures --- Rupestrian world heritage sites: Instability investigation and sustainable mitigation --- Subaerial landslide-generated waves: Numerical and laboratory simulations --- Rockfall occurrence and fragmentation --- Contribution from signatory organizations of the Sendai Partnerships --- International Consortium on Landslides (ICL) --- International Consortium on Landslides (ICL) - The proposing organization of the ISDR-ICL Sendai partnerships 2015-2025 --- United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) --- UNISDR‘s Contribution to Science and Technology for Disaster Risk Reduction and the Role of the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL) --- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) --- UNESCO’s Contribution to the Implementation of UNISDR’s Global Initiative and ICL --- United Nations University (UNU) --- The United Nations University: Research and Policy Support for Environmental Risk Reduction --- World Meteorological Organization (WMO) --- Concerted International Efforts for Advancing Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems --- International Council for Science (ICSU) --- On Future Challenges for the Integration of Science into International Policy Development for Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction --- World Federation of Engineering Organizations (WFEO) --- World Federation of Engineering Organizations Activities in Disaster Risk Reduction --- Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University --- National Civil Protection Department, Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Government of Italy --- Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk: Challenges and Opportunities for Italian Civil Protection --- Landslide Dynamics: ISDR-ICL Landslide Interactive Teaching Tools (LITT) --- Progress of the World Report on Landslides --- International Programme on Landslides (IPL): Objectives, History and List of World Centres of Excellence and IPL Projects --- UNESCO-KU-ICL UNITWIN Cooperation Programme for Landslides and Water-Related Disaster Risk Management. Landslides: Journal of the International Consortium on Landslides --- IPL Activities --- Advanced Technologies for Landslides (WCoE 2014-2017, IPL-196, IPL-198) --- Mechanisms of Landslides and Creep in Over-Consolidated Clays and Flysch (WCoE 2014-2017 --- Research on Heavy-Rainfall-Induced and Hydraulic-Driven Geological Hazards in China (WCoE 2014-2017). Landslide Risk Reduction in Croatia: Scientific research in the framework of the WCoE 2014-2017, IPL-173, IPL-184, ICL ABN --- Shapes and Mechanisms of Large-scale Landslides in Japan: Forecasting Analysis from an Inventory (WCoE 2014–2017 --- Retrospective and Prospects for Cold Regions Landslide Research (2012-2016) (WCoE 2014-2017, IPL-132, IPL-167, IPL-203, CRLN --- Large-scale Rockslide Inventories: from the Kokomeren River Basin to the Entire Central Asia Region (WCoE 2014-2017, IPL-106-2) --- Interventions for Promoting Knowledge, Innovations and Landslide Risk Management Practices within South and Southeast Asia (WCoE 2014-2017) --- Promoting a Global Standard for Community-based Landslide Early Warning Systems (WCoE 2014-2017, IPL-158, IPL-165) --- Model Policy Frameworks, Standards and Guidelines on Landslide Disaster Reduction (WCoE 2014-2017) --- Landslide Hazard and Risk Management (WCoE 2014-2017) --- Mitigation of Landslide Hazards in Ukraine under the Guidance of ICL: 2009–2016 (IPL-153, IPL-191) --- Development of a Hazard Evaluation Technique for Earthquake-Induced Landslides Based on an Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) (IPL-154) --- The Croatian-Japanese SATREPS Joint Research Project on Landslides (IPL-161)
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXVI, 586 pages) , 372 illustrations, 350 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319594699
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-59469-9
    Language: English
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    Innovations in Quantitative Risk Management : TU München, September 2013 (2015)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Finance ; Mathematics ; Quantitative Finance ; Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences ; Finance, general ; Actuarial Sciences
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I Markets, Regulation, and Model Risk --- A Random Holding Period Approach for Liquidity-Inclusive Risk Management --- Regulatory Developments in Risk Management: Restoring Confidence in Internal Models --- Model Risk in Incomplete Markets with Jumps --- Part II Financial Engineering --- Bid-Ask Spread for Exotic Options Under Conic Finance --- Derivative Pricing Under the Possibility of Long Memory in the supOU Stochastic Volatility Model --- A Two-Sided BNS Model for Multicurrency FX Markets --- Modeling the Price of Natural Gas with Temperature and Oil Price as Exogenous Factors --- Copula-Specific Credit Portfolio Modeling --- Implied Recovery Rates—Auctions and Models --- Upside and Downside Risk Exposures of Currency Carry Trades via Tail Dependence --- Part III Insurance Risk and Asset Management --- Participating Life Insurance Contracts Under Risk Based Solvency Frameworks: How to Increase Capital Efficiency by Product Design --- Reducing Surrender Incentives Through Fee Structure in Variable Annuities --- A Variational Approach for Mean-Variance-Optimal Deterministic Consumption and Investment --- Risk Control in Asset Management: Motives and Concepts --- Worst-Case Scenario Portfolio Optimization Given the Probability of a Crash --- Improving Optimal Terminal Value Replicating Portfolios --- Part IV Computational Methods for Risk Management --- Risk and Computation --- Extreme Value Importance Sampling for Rare Event Risk Measurement --- A Note on the Numerical Evaluation of the Hartman–Watson Density and Distribution Function --- Computation of Copulas by Fourier Methods --- Part V Dependence Modelling --- Goodness-of-fit Tests for Archimedean Copulas in High Dimensions --- Duality in Risk Aggregation --- Some Consequences of the Markov Kernel Perspective of Copulas --- Copula Representations for Invariant Dependence Functions --- Nonparametric Copula Density Estimation Using a Petrov–Galerkin Projection
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 438 pages) , 84 illustrations
    ISBN: 9783319091143
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-09114-3
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    Innovations in Quantitative Risk Management : TU München, September 2013 (2015)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Finance ; Mathematics ; Quantitative Finance ; Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences ; Finance, general ; Actuarial Sciences
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I Markets, Regulation, and Model Risk --- A Random Holding Period Approach for Liquidity-Inclusive Risk Management --- Regulatory Developments in Risk Management: Restoring Confidence in Internal Models --- Model Risk in Incomplete Markets with Jumps --- Part II Financial Engineering --- Bid-Ask Spread for Exotic Options Under Conic Finance --- Derivative Pricing Under the Possibility of Long Memory in the supOU Stochastic Volatility Model --- A Two-Sided BNS Model for Multicurrency FX Markets --- Modeling the Price of Natural Gas with Temperature and Oil Price as Exogenous Factors --- Copula-Specific Credit Portfolio Modeling --- Implied Recovery Rates—Auctions and Models --- Upside and Downside Risk Exposures of Currency Carry Trades via Tail Dependence --- Part III Insurance Risk and Asset Management --- Participating Life Insurance Contracts Under Risk Based Solvency Frameworks: How to Increase Capital Efficiency by Product Design --- Reducing Surrender Incentives Through Fee Structure in Variable Annuities --- A Variational Approach for Mean-Variance-Optimal Deterministic Consumption and Investment --- Risk Control in Asset Management: Motives and Concepts --- Worst-Case Scenario Portfolio Optimization Given the Probability of a Crash --- Improving Optimal Terminal Value Replicating Portfolios --- Part IV Computational Methods for Risk Management --- Risk and Computation --- Extreme Value Importance Sampling for Rare Event Risk Measurement --- A Note on the Numerical Evaluation of the Hartman–Watson Density and Distribution Function --- Computation of Copulas by Fourier Methods --- Part V Dependence Modelling --- Goodness-of-fit Tests for Archimedean Copulas in High Dimensions --- Duality in Risk Aggregation --- Some Consequences of the Markov Kernel Perspective of Copulas --- Copula Representations for Invariant Dependence Functions --- Nonparametric Copula Density Estimation Using a Petrov–Galerkin Projection
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XI, 438 pages) , 84 illustrations
    ISBN: 9783319091143
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-09114-3
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    Freshwater Governance for the 21st Century (2017)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Environmental management ; International relations ; Behavioral sciences ; Environmental law ; Environmental policy ; Water ; Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management ; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice ; Environmental Management ; International Relations ; Behavioral Sciences
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction and Reflections --- 2. The Establishment of Catchment Management Agencies in South Africa with Reference to the Flussgebietsgemeinschaft Elbe: Some Practical Considerations --- 3. Towards Inclusive Water Governance: OECD Evidence and Key Principles of Stakeholder Engagement in the Water Sector --- 4. Free-Market Economics and Developmental Statism as Political Paradigms: Implications for Water Governance Theory and Practice in Developing Countries --- 5. Urban Water Governance as a Function of the “Urban Hydrosocial Transition” --- 6. Urban Water Governance for the 21st Century: A Portfolio-Based Approach to Planning and Management --- 7. Rights-Based Freshwater Governance for the 21st Century: Beyond an Exclusionary Focus on Domestic Water uses --- 8. Inclusive Transboundary Water Governance --- 9. Mechanisms for Inclusive Governance --- 10. Water Integrity - from Concept to Practice --- 11. Addressing the Groundwater Governance Challenge: A Call from the “Groundwater Governance: A Global Framework for Action” Project --- 12. Water Governance Futures in South Asia and Southern Africa: Déjà vu all Over Again?
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXVII, 250 pages) , 39 illustrations, 28 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319433509
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-43350-9
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    Evaluating Climate Change Action for Sustainable Development (2017)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Environment ; Climate change ; Environmental management ; Sustainable development ; Environment ; Climate Change ; Sustainable Development ; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts ; Environmental Management
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction --- 2. Action on Climate Change: What Does it Mean and Where Does it Lead To? --- Part 1. Policy --- 3. Mainstreaming Impact Evidence in Climate Change and Sustainable Development --- 4. Pathway to Impact: Supporting and Evaluating Enabling Environments for Research for Development --- 5. Lessons from Taking Stock of 12 years of Swiss International Cooperation on Climate Change --- 6. An Analytical Framework for Evaluating a Diverse Climate Change Portfolio --- 7. Enhancing the Joint Crediting Mechanism MRV to Contribute to Sustainable Development --- Part 2. Climate Change Mitigation --- 8. Using Mixed Methods to Assessing Trade-offs Between Agricultural Decisions and Deforestation --- 9. Methodological Approach of the GEF IEO’s Climate Change Mitigation Impact Evaluation: Assessing Progress in Market Change for Reduction of CO2 Emissions --- 10. Integrating Avoided Emissions in Climate Change Evaluation Policies for LDCs: The Case of Passive Solar Houses in Afghanistan --- 11. Sustainable Development, Climate Change, and Renewable Energy in Rural Central America --- 12. Unpacking the Black Box of Technology Distribution, Development Potential and Carbon Markets Benefits --- Part 3. Climate Change Adaptation.-13. What do Evaluations Tell Us About Climate Change Adaptation? Meta-Analysis with a Realist Approach --- 14. Adaptation Processes in Agriculture and Food Security: Insights from Evaluating Behavioral Changes in West Africa --- 15. Using Participatory Approaches in Measuring Resilience and Development in Isiolo County, Kenya --- 16. Evaluating Climate Change Adaptation in Practice: A Child-Centred, Community-Based Project in the Philippines --- 17. Drought Preparedness Policies and Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience Measures in Brazil: An Institutional Change Assessment --- 18. The Adaptation M&E Navigator: A Decision Support Tool for the Selection of Suitable Approaches to Monitor and Evaluate Adaptation to Climate Change
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XXIV, 355 pages) , 44 illustrations, 36 illustrations in color
    ISBN: 9783319437026
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-43702-6
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    Scaling of Differential Equations (2016)
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    Keywords: Mathematics ; Computer simulation ; Differential equations ; Partial differential equations ; Computer mathematics ; Mathematical models ; Mathematics ; Ordinary Differential Equations ; Partial Differential Equations ; Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics ; Computational Science and Engineering ; Simulation and Modeling
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface --- 1 Dimensions and Units --- 2 Ordinary Differential Equations Models --- 3 Basic Partial Differential Equations Models --- Advanced Partial Differential Equations Models --- References --- Index
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIII, 138 pages) , 22 illustrations
    ISBN: 9783319327266
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-32726-6
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    Integrated Groundwater Management : Concepts, Approaches and Challenges (2016)
    Cham : Springer
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    Keywords: Earth sciences ; Environmental management ; Hydrogeology ; Sustainable development ; Economic growth ; Earth Sciences ; Hydrogeology ; Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management ; Economic Growth ; Sustainable Development
    Description / Table of Contents: From the Contents: Overview concepts, approaches and challenges of integrated groundwater management --- Disentangling the complexity of a groundwater dependent socio-ecological system --- The scale of the groundwater issue internationally --- Groundwater law --- Groundwater regulation and integrated water planning
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XIII, 762 pages) , 101 illustrations
    ISBN: 9783319235769
    URL: https://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=book&isbn=978-3-319-23576-9
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