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The book provides an overview of the Slow Onset Disasters (SLOD) in the urban built environment discussing potential strategies to assess and mitigate multiple climate change related risks. Climate change evidence has been reported in the last decades, suggesting that the anthropogenic activities are accelerating these changes towards a warmer and more polluted environment. In this context, SLODs have been linked to climate change related disasters and have been stated to have a higher impact risk within dense built environment (BE). Therefore, the book presents a description of the most relevant SLODs, their significance, and confluence, the way in which scientists and entities are monitoring their progression at different scales, a structured risk assessment strategy and the deconstruction of the BE characteristics that make it more prone to SLODs risk. In addition, it highlights the necessity of adapting the traditional risk assessment methods, to account for different vulnerabilitytypes, including the morphology and materiality of the BE, and the BE users' characteristics. In fact, individual features influence users' responses and tolerance to environmental stressors, because of age, health, gender, habits, and behaviour, thus impacting the users' vulnerability. Exposure can then amplify these issues, since it defines the number of users that can be effectively affected by the SLOD. Starting from this perspective, the book first traces literature-based correlations between individual features, use behaviour, and individual response to the SLOD-altered open spaces. Then, a novel methodology, to quantify the variations of users' vulnerability and exposure, is offered, to support designers in quickly defining input scenarios for risk assessment and mitigation. Lastly, it demonstrates, through a case study, the SLOD risk assessment framework proposed and the evaluation of the efficacy of risk mitigation strategies.

German edition Villa Silberblick where a mentally deranged Friedrich Nietzsche spent the final years of his life, was originally a middle-class home. Nietzsche's sister Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche not only looked after her ill brother but also exploited the cult-like admiration the philosopher enjoyed for her own ends and installed the Nietzsche Archive in the building. Initially very popular amongst Europe's avant-garde later Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche allowed the archive to be instrumentalized by the National Socialists before it became a taboo topic in the GDR. Featuring many colored illustrations, the book relates the turbulent history of a memorial that reflects the ambivalence of modernism. Look inside https://issuu.com/deutscher_kunstverlag/docs/blick_ins_buch_nietzsche-archiv_dt

Il Comune di Pescara è tra i Comuni Partner del progetto "JOINT SECAP - Joint strategies for Climate change adaptation in coastal areas ". Il Progetto ha un partenariato importante composto dal Capofila Università di Camerino e dai seguenti partner: (PP1) IRENA - Istrian Energy Agency; (PP2) Comune di San Benedetto del Tronto; (PP3) Regione Abruzzo; (PP4) Comune di Pescara; (PP5) SDEWES; (PP6) PRIMORSKO - GORANSKA County; (PP7) SPLIT - DALMATIA County; (PP8) VELA LUKA. Joint Secap mira a migliorare il monitoraggio dei cambiamenti climatici e la pianificazione di misure per rafforzare la capacità di adattamento dei territori delle Contee dell'Istria, di Rijeka e di Spalato (Croazia), dei Comuni di San Benedetto del Tronto, Pescara, Montesilvano, San Giovanni Teatino e Spoltore, aumentandone nel contempo la capacità di recupero. In particolare, intende sviluppare la capacità di adattamento contro i principali effetti dei cambiamenti climatici (innalzamento del livello del mare, alluvioni, erosione costiera accelerata, subsidenza, ecc.). Con gli uffici si sta sviluppando un approccio più integrato all'adattamento ai cambiamenti climatici, in particolare considerando il valore aggiunto dato dalla cooperazione transfrontaliera. Saranno migliorati i meccanismi per lo scambio di informazioni, mentre il coordinamento delle azioni e dei piani adattativi sarà potenziato attraverso l'armonizzazione dei dati e delle procedure sviluppate nel Progetto Joint Secap. Gli obiettivi saranno quelli di supportare lo sviluppo, l'implementazione e la gestione tramite la redazione dei piani congiunti territoriali di azione sulla sostenibilità energetica e adattamento al cambiamento climatico. Das Urheberrecht an bibliographischen und produktbeschreibenden Daten und an den bereitgestellten Bildern liegt bei Informazioni Editoriali, I.E. S.r.l., oder beim Herausgeber oder demjenigen, der die Genehmigung erteilt hat. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.

This book addresses the failures of structural elements, i.e. those components whose primary mission is to withstand mechanical loads. The book is intended as a self-contained source for those with different technical grades, engineers and scientists but also technicians in the field can benefit from its reading.