| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910462552803321 |
|
|
Titolo |
Quantitative risk assessment (QRA) for natural hazards [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Nasim Uddin, Alfredo H.S. Ang |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (94 p.) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Collana |
|
Monograph / ASCE Council on Disaster Risk Management ; ; no. 5 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Altri autori (Persone) |
|
AngAlfredo Hua-Sing <1930-> |
UddinNasim |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
Civil engineering - Decision making |
Natural disasters - Risk assessment |
Quantitative research |
Structural analysis (Engineering) - Approximation methods |
System safety - Mathematics |
Electronic books. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Note generali |
|
Description based upon print version of record. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di bibliografia |
|
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di contenuto |
|
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1: An Application of Quantitative Risk Assessment in Infrastructures Engineering""; ""Chapter 2: Quantitative Risk Analysis Applied to Dams""; ""Chapter 3: Risk Assessment for Wind Hazards""; ""Chapter 4: Quantitative Earthquake Risk Assessment""; ""Chapter 5: Risk Assessment for Bridge Decision-Making""; ""Chapter 6: An All-Hazards Methodology for Critical Asset and Portfolio Risk Analysis""; ""Chapter 7: A Methodology for the Risk Analysis and Management of Protected Hurricane-Prone Regions""; ""Index"" |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2. |
Record Nr. |
UNISA996248301303316 |
|
|
Autore |
Grzymała-Busse Anna Maria <1970-> |
|
|
Titolo |
Rebuilding Leviathan : party competition and state exploitation in post-communist democracies / / Anna Grzymala-Busse [[electronic resource]] |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2007 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
1-107-17229-2 |
1-280-85048-5 |
0-511-27925-6 |
0-511-61881-6 |
0-511-27865-9 |
0-511-27748-2 |
0-511-32166-X |
0-511-27807-1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (xiv, 274 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Collana |
|
Cambridge studies in comparative politics |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
Political parties - Europe, Eastern |
Post-communism - Europe, Eastern |
Europe, Eastern Politics and government 1989- |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Note generali |
|
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di bibliografia |
|
Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-268) and index. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di contenuto |
|
Competing for the state -- Developing the formal institutions of the state -- The expansion of state administration : exploitation or patronage? -- Privatizing the state : party financing strategies -- Conclusion -- Appendix A. Party organizations in post-communist democracies -- Appendix B. Measuring state administration employment -- Appendix C. Anchoring vignettes. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sommario/riassunto |
|
Why do some governing parties limit their opportunistic behaviour and constrain the extraction of private gains from the state? This analysis of post-communist state reconstruction provides surprising answers to this fundamental question of party politics. Across the post-communist democracies, governing parties have opportunistically reconstructed the state - simultaneously exploiting it by extracting state resources |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
and building new institutions that further such extraction. They enfeebled or delayed formal state institutions of monitoring and oversight, established new discretionary structures of state administration, and extracted enormous informal profits from the privatization of the communist economy. By examining how post-communist political parties rebuilt the state in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia, Grzymala-Busse explains how even opportunistic political parties will limit their corrupt behaviour and abuse of state resources when faced with strong political competition. |
|
|
|
|
|
| |