Geoinformation techniques in natural hazard modeling: Preface

in Geoinformation and Cartography

This chapter provides an introduction to this book on Cognitive and Linguistic Aspects of Geographic Space—New Perspectives on Geographic Information Research. As background we provide historical information for the Las Navas 1990 meeting and citation statistics regarding the resulting book and its chapters. We also review the major intellectual influences on our field at that time from differe...

PREFACE

Selection of Hazard Evaluation Techniques

The ability to ensure process safety at a facility is influenced by many things: for example, employing appropriate technology in design and construction, anticipating the effects of external circumstances, understanding and dealing with human behavior, getting high reporting of near misses to learn from incidents, and having effective management systems. However, all of these efforts depend on...

Preface

PREFACE