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Towards safer urban cities and environment in the 21st century

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International Center for Urban Safety Engineering
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This brochure introduces ICUS's Urban Safety and Disaster Mitigation Division, which is aimed at developing management technologies to ensure the structural safety of urban infrastructure from natural disasters such as earthquake, flood, etc., and their safety for use at the time of disaster.

The main research themes include: city safety and disaster prevention strategy; development of a universal disaster and environment simulator; disaster countermeasures of city lifeline; and engineering technique for utilization of earthquake-predicting information.

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Hazards Earthquake Flood
Themes Climate change Urban risk and planning Structural safety
Number of pages
12 p.
Publication year
2001

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