The topic of the book has emerged as a key research area following the evolution of environmental management toward the use of decision aid methods, and the increased use of Multicriteria Decision Aid in complex problems. In fact is now realised that decision in the field of assessment and...

This book is based on the lecture notes prepared for the advanced course on experimental and numerical methods in earthquake engineering held at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the Commission of the European Communities, Ispra Establishment, in October 1991. The topic of the course was chosen...

By its very nature, action involves risk: zero risk is zero action. Man has always had a sense of action hence risk, and consequently of the "precautions" required to ensure his safety. As with all techniques, development was first pursued in an empirical, even rudimentary fashion - and so it...