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Assessing Infrastructure Vulnerability to Sudden Events

James Denman Birdsall

Over the past twenty years, numerous infrastructure management systems have been developed to address gradual failure modes. Unfortunately the management of sudden failure modes within large infrastructure systems (principally: natural hazard induced failu ...

2007

RISK21 - Coping with Risk due to Natural Hazards in the 21st Century

Laurent Vulliet

To be able to take effective and efficient decisions leading to transparent and comparable results between different risk situations, a consistent and systematic risk management process has to be followed (in this context called “integral risk management”) ...

Taylor & Francis2006

A stochastic control model of economic growth with environmental disaster prevention

Alain Haurie

This paper proposes a capital accumulation model with a random stopping time corresponding to the occurrence of an environmental catastrophe. Depending on the preventive capital stock accumulated at the time of the catastrophe, the damage cost associated w ...

Elsevier2006

Integrated sustainability assessment for local projects

Tourane Corbière

Introduction In 1987, the need to strive towards development aimed at making it possible to satisfy the present needs without compromising the needs of future generations is generally acknowledged. The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 propagated Agenda 211, whi ...

EPFL2005

La négociation des risques technologiques

Marc Audétat

This thesis considers technological risks and their constitution as public problems. It supports that the main difference among risks is not to see between proved risks and uncertain risks, on the basis of the objective knowledge, but rather separates risk ...

EPFL2004

Environmental Geomechanics

Lyesse Laloui, Laurent Vulliet

« Environmental Geomechanics » is a relatively new discipline at the interface between built and natural environment. It is devoted to the understanding of the mechanical behavior of geomaterials (mainly soil and rock but also concrete and others) under va ...

PPUR2002

Post DOTS, post genomics: the next century of tuberculosis control

Stewart Cole

At the end of another decade of our fluctuating relationship with tuberculosis, it is not clear whether we should be optimistic or pessimistic. The raw statistics are bad: an estimated 30 million people have died of tuberculosis in the past 10 years.1 The ...

1999