Essays about: "hazardous event"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 essays containing the words hazardous event.

1. 1. Natural Hazards Impact on Real Estate Value : A Semi - Quantitative Risk Assessment of the Climatic Impact on Commercial Buildings in Milan, Italy

   University essay from KTH/Fastighetsföretagande och finansiella system

   Author : Agnes Karlsson; Robin Claesson; [2022]
   Keywords : Natural Hazards; Real Estate Value; Climate Risk; Vulnerability; Extremväder; Fastighetsvärde; Klimatrisk; Sårbarhet;

   Abstract : In the light of the increased frequency of natural hazards in Europe alongside the high impact a hazardous event has on real estate value, real estate owners need to manage and strengthen assets within their entire portfolio to increase resilience and minimize the vulnerability to future negative impact. Further, a research gap exists in how to incorporate climate variables with real estate specifics which makes it challenging for property managers and other stakeholders to interpret the climatic impact on a particular asset. READ MORE

3. 2. Property Prices and Disaster (In)Justice: Fifty Years of Demographic Change in Hawai’i County’s Lava Hazard Zones

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

   Author : AnaCapri Mauro; [2022]
   Keywords : Social Vulnerability; Volcanic Hazards; Disaster Justice; Risk Governance; Temporal Analysis; Mauna Loa; Kīlauea; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : While there is a degree of homogeneity in the physical impact that volcanic hazards can cause, the experience of volcanic risk and the politics of exposure are far from equal. The purpose of this thesis is to expand on research citing population growth and property price dynamics as factors encouraging settlement in the Mauna Loa and Kīlauea lava hazard zones. READ MORE

4. 3. Study of the Dilution of a chemical spill through tracer experiments in The Käppala Association's Sewerage Network, Stockholm

   University essay from KTH/Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik

   Author : Jerome Scullin; [2021]
   Keywords : Sewerage network; Tracer tests; Solute transport; ADE; Breakthrough curve; Uranine;

   Abstract : Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) play a vital role in protecting the environment from much of the waste produced by humans. This includes not only human waste, but everything that makes its way into a sewerage system including greywater, stormwater, and potentially hazardous chemicals from, inter alia, chemical spills. READ MORE

5. 4. Factors influencing the generation of carbon monoxide in fires partially suppressed through water mist application

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Brandteknik

   Author : Haydn Lewis; [2020]
   Keywords : Fire safety engineering; water mist; fire suppression; carbon monoxide; water; combustion; Technology and Engineering;

   Abstract : Fires in the built environment typically consist of diffusion flames with inefficient mixing of fuel and oxygen, resulting in a degree of incomplete combustion and the generation of carbon monoxide. Fire suppression systems, used to control the growth and spread of fire, influence the combustion reaction process. READ MORE

6. 5. Fatal accidents in the mining industry – do investors react rationally?

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Björn Mattsson; [2020]
   Keywords : Finance; behavioral finance; market psychology; overreaction theory; efficient market hypothesis; mining; fatal accidents; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : The mining industry is characterized by a hazardous working environment for its employed blue-collar workers and a general complexity of valuation for investors. By theories of behav-ioral finance, corporate social responsibility, and others outlined in the following, this makes a setting where one could plausibly expect reactions and even overreactions among investors to fatal accidents incurred among employed miners related to the mining operations. READ MORE