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Hazard Risk Mitigation for a Sustainable Built Environment

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The aim of this study is to collect and review resources that map the hazard risk mitigation strategy for transferring research knowledge in the field on sustainable rehabilitation of the built environment.

Natural disasters occur all over the world and impact on large or small land areas. This study makes a brief review on the nature of disasters, but also the impact and consequences of such hazards on the built environment. It also investigates the need to manage and mitigate the hazard risk for a sustainable rehabilitation and reconstruction of the built environment.

This paper presents the concept of hazard risk mitigation for a sustainable built environment, analysing the most dangerous types of environmental hazards causing important social and economic damage in Romania: earthquakes, landslides and subsidence, storms and tornadoes, highlighting imperative risk mitigation actions. It also screens temporary measures solving immediate issues, restoration of services, rehabilitation of structures, several case studies and scenario-based mitigation measures.

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Rotaru, A. et al. (2021). Hazard Risk Mitigation for a Sustainable Built Environment. In: Rotaru, A. (eds) Critical Thinking in the Sustainable Rehabilitation and Risk Management of the Built Environment. CRIT-RE-BUILT 2019. Springer Series in Geomechanics and Geoengineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61118-7_1

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