Natural Risk Management and Engineering [electronic resource] : NatRisk Project / edited by Milan Gocić, Giuseppe Tito Aronica, Georgios E. Stavroulakis, Slaviša Trajković.

9783030393915

1st ed. 2020.

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2020.

1 online resource (VIII, 242 p.) 100 illus., 79 illus. in color.

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This book summarizes the research being pursued as part of the Erasmus+ CBHE KA2 project entitled "Development of master curricula for natural disasters risk management in Western Balkan countries” (NatRisk), which aims to educate experts on the prevention and management of natural disasters in the Western Balkan region in line with national and EU policies. The project has successfully developed and implemented master curricula and educational training in the field of natural disasters risk management, and a methodology for the identification and prevention of natural disasters. Consisting of 11 chapters, the book analyzes and discusses topics such as risk assessment tools and quality methods, the different approaches for civil-military collaboration, natural disasters risk management in Bosnia and Herzegovina, leadership models for managing crises resulting from natural disasters, natural disasters in industrial areas, natural risk management in geotechnics, flood risk modeling, adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference models for flood prediction, collapse prediction of masonry arches, an algorithm for fire truck dispatch in emergency situations, and processing drought data in a GIS environment.

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March 25, 2020