The analysis and management of risk and the mitigation of hazards is of fundamental importance to planners and researchers around the world. The papers featured in this book come from the fourth in the popular international conference series on this subject and cover areas such as: Estimation of Risk; Man-Made Risk; Seismic Hazard; External Events - Terrorism and Sabotage; Risk Perception and Philosophy; Landslides and Slope Movements; Data Collection Analysis; Emergency Response; Soil and Water Contamination; and Air Quality Studies. The infor…

The analysis and management of risk and mitigation of hazards is essential in our increasingly complex society. Containing edited versions of papers presented at the Third International Conference on Computer Simulation in Risk Analysis and Hazard Mitigation (RISK), this volume covers a series of important research topics which are of current interest and which have practical applications. The contributions included are concerned with all aspects of risk analysis and hazard mitigation, ranging from specific assessment of risk to mitigation asso…