Natural Risk Management and Engineering

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.

• Risk assessment tools
• Risk Management Process
• Flood Risk Management
• Flood Modelling
• Natural Hazards
• Western Balkan countries
• NatRisk project
• quality control, reliability, safety and risk

• University of Niš, Niš, Serbia

  Milan Gocić, Slaviša Trajković

• Department of Engineering, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

  Giuseppe Tito Aronica

• Department of Production Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece

  Georgios E. Stavroulakis

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