Early mass warning becomes an essential task of security forces during a state of emergency. However, informing all potentially endangered people is a challenging job. An ordinary network of stationary [...]
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Extreme weather phenomena are now becoming increasingly unpredictable and dangerous. These include hurricanes and tornadoes in some areas. According to a recent research study carried out by the American National [...]
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Floods are just one of many natural disasters; still, they are the number one disaster in Europe, according to EM-DAT data. Here, floods occur on average 13 to 14 times [...]
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Dams and hydroelectric powers stations fulfil several essential functions: managing potable water supplies, controlling and preventing floods, generating electricity and supplying water to industrial and agricultural consumers. However, there are [...]
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Noisy, dusty, large and open industrial environments can have adverse effects on workers. Such exposure is one of the most hazardous factors in working environments. In their production operations, many [...]
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Long-term climate change and human activities, such as mining or construction, entail potential security risks. Especially in mountainous areas and on steep slopes, landslides and stone or snow avalanches can [...]
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Time to take an Action The gravity of a worldwide crisis leads to the urgency of taking action to tackle it. More than ever, local, regional or national authorities need [...]
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You may be surprised that golf courses belong to places with a relatively high risk of dangerous weather changes. Golf courses are really vast: an eighteen-hole course often occupies an [...]
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Urbanisation is a familiar word to us all from school. It means a simple and widespread phenomenon today – the increasing role of cities in the development of society. As [...]
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Many industrial plants cannot avoid using hazardous materials in their technological processes. As can be seen in practice all over the world, despite the utmost care taken when handling and [...]
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