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Earthquake Protection (2nd Ed.)
Authors: Coburn Andrew, Spence Robin
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Add to cart the book of Coburn Andrew, Spence RobinPublication date: 09-2002
424 p. · 16x24 cm · Hardback
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Add to cart the book of Coburn Andrew, Spence RobinPublication date: 10-2002
448 p. · 15.2x23.1 cm · Paperback
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Significantly revised and updated, this second edition continues to provide a comprehensive overview of how to reduce the impact of earthquakes on people and property, and implement best practice in managing the consequences of such disasters. It also includes significant coverage of the techniques of modelling earthquake catastrophe. Each chapter deals with a separate aspect of protection, and covers a wide range of economic and social conditions, drawing on the authors' considerable personal experience and with reference to real life examples.
Key features include:
- Recent event coverage
- Modern developments in the theory and practice of planning and engineering loss estimation techniques, along with new engineering techniques such as microzonation and hazard-mapping
- Historic buildings experience
- An entirely new chapter on 'Earthquakes and Finance'
This valuable book provides essential reading for earthquake and structural engineers and geoscientists, as well as insurers and loss prevention specialists, risk managers and assessors involved in managing earthquake risk, urban and regional planners, and emergency management agencies.
Foreword.
Acknowledgements.
Earthquakes, Disasters and Protection.
The Costs of Earthquakes.
Preparedness for Earthquakes.
The Earthquake Emergency.
Recovering from Earthquakes.
Strategies for Earthquake Protection.
Site Selection and Seismic Hazard Assessment.
Improving Earthquake Resistance of Buildings.
Earthquake Risk Modelling.
Risk Mitigation in Action.
Bibliography.
Index.
Robin Spence is a structural engineer and Reader in Architectural Engineering in the Department of Architecture at Cambridge University. He has been active in the field of earthquake risk mitigation for over 20 years. During that time he has taken part in many field missions, and was one of the founders of EEFIT, the earthquake engineering team in 1983. He has also directed numerous research projects on earthquake vulnerability assessment, loss estimation and disaster mitigation, and is the author of many papers, reports and manuals on these subjects. He has frequently been a consultant to international agencies, national governments and insurance companies on the assessment and mitigation of earthquake and volcanic hazards.
After obtaining his PhD on the analysis