GENERALIZED FRAGILITY RELATIONSHIPS WITH LOCAL SITE CONDITIONS FOR PROBABILISTIC PERFORMANCE-BASED SEISMIC RISK ASSESSMENT OF BRIDGE INVENTORIES

Generalized Fragility Relationships with Local Site Conditions for Probabilistic Performance-based Seismic Risk Assessment of Bridge Inventories

The current practice of detailed seismic risk assessment cannot be Dipper Wells easily applied to all the bridges in a large transportation networks due to limited resources.This paper presents a new approach for seismic risk assessment of large bridge inventories in a city or national bridge network based on the framework of probabilistic performa

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Sustaining ecosystem services in cultural landscapes

Classical conservation approaches focus on the man-made degradation of ecosystems and tend to neglect the social-ecological values that human land uses have imprinted on many environments.Throughout the world, ingenious land-use practices have generated unique cultural landscapes, but these are under pressure from agricultural intensification, land

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