Large-Scale Disasters: Prediction, Control and Mitigation - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521872936 ISBN 13: 9780521872935

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

A review volume presenting research into the prediction, prevention or mitigation of large-scale disasters.

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Mohamed Gad-el-Hak is currently the Inez Caudill Eminent Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Chair of Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the American Academy of Mechanics. In 1998, Professor Gad-el-Hak was named the Fourteenth ASME Freeman Scholar. In 1999, he was awarded the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Prize, Germany's highest research award for senior U.S. scientists and scholars in all disciplines. In 2002, he was named ASME Distinguished Lecturer, as well as inducted into the Johns Hopkins University Society of Scholars.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0521872936
• ISBN 13: 9780521872935
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 576
• Herausgeber: Gad-El-Hak Mohamed
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Cambridge University Press; https://www.cambridge.org/; ; Via Honduras,15; Pomezia; Italia; 71; Italien