Hazards, Vulnerability and Mitigation Measures of Water Supply and Sewerage Systems

Hlavinek, Petr

doi:10.1007/978-90-481-2365-0_1

Petr Hlavinek

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paper deals with hazards, vulnerability and mitigation measures of sewerage systems. Types of hazards pending in central Europe and their consequences on sanitation systems are described. The goal of the paper was to review existing knowledge about risk management and related topics such as disaster planning and management and emergency management as a starting point for the rest of the publication.

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AQUAPROCON ltd., Palackeho 12, 612 00, Brno, Czech Republic
Petr Hlavinek
Dept. of Hydrology and River Engineering, University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Partizanski odredi 24, P.O. Box 560, 1000, Skopje, Macedonia
Cvetanka Popovska
National Water Research Institute, 867 Lakeshore Road, Burlington, ON, L7R 4A6, Canada
Jiri Marsalek
Department of Environmental Engineering, Slovak University of Technology, Radlinskeho 9, 812 37, Bratislava, Slovakia
Ivana Mahrikova
Institute for Problems of Natural Resources Use ' Ecology of National Academy of Belarus, Staroborysovski tract, 10, Minsk, 220114, Belarus
Tamara Kukharchyk

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Hlavinek, P. (2009). Hazards, Vulnerability and Mitigation Measures of Water Supply and Sewerage Systems. In: Hlavinek, P., Popovska, C., Marsalek, J., Mahrikova, I., Kukharchyk, T. (eds) Risk Management of Water Supply and Sanitation Systems. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2365-0_1

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