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For many years, natural disasters were perceived as unavoidable strokes of misfortune brought about by nature’s unpredictable forces. Taking into consideration the magnitude of the tsunami in Asia in 2004, the heavy floods in Mozambique in 2000, and Hurricane Mitch in Central America in 1998, we can see that developing countries are the most victims of such events, mostly due to their limited capacities and resources to mitigate disasters. On another hand is quite visible the efforts that are put on places both to...

In the current context of rapid economic growth of eastern and south-eastern European countries, the pressure exerted on the environment is in certain cases considerable, having repercussions that are not easily assessable and remediable. The Bistroe navigation channel is a Ukrainian investment within the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve; its objectives are reducing navigation expenses for the Ukrainian fleet and lowering the country’s unemployment rate. According to Ukraine officials, the losses caused by the use o...

The risk assessment approach for the establishments concerned by the Seveso II Directive requirements can be grounded on the determination and the aggregation of 3 indexes: the gravity index, the propagation flow index and the vulnerability index. Based on the national and EU legal requirements concerning the prevention and control of major accident hazards involving dangerous substances, the paper has as main goal to present an expeditious methodology for gravity index determination as a function of the dangerous...