The persistent potential for large scale natural disasters has become a real concern for the Turkish government since the late 1990s, which ultimately led to th

This open access book originates from an international workshop organized by Turkish Natural Catastrophe Insurance Pool (TCIP) in November 2019 that gathered re

Since the publication of the successful first edition of Earthquake Protection there have been 110 lethal earthquakes, killing 130 000 people; there have also b

Earthquakes represent a major risk to buildings, bridges and other civil infrastructure systems, causing catastrophic loss to modern society. Handbook of seismi

"Analyses the economic and social impacts of recent large-scale disasters, and draws some initial lessons for the monitoring and the management of future disast