Societal factors involved on risk mitigation policy - Challenges to seismic retrofitting of hospital buildings

This paper discusses the recurrent societal problems that emerge in the seismic risk mitigation policy process. It offers a definition of risk mitigation, and examines its application to earthquake threat, particularly the challenges to mitigation adoption and implementation processes. California (E...

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Main Author: Silva, D. S. (author)
Other Authors: Aguirre, B. (author)
Format: conferenceObject
Language:por
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://repositorio.lnec.pt:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/16836
Country:Portugal
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