Fire Hazards: Socio-economic and Regional Issues
The open access book aims to show the readers novel, relevant and reproducible power of synergistic collaborations between European research groups and stakeholders with the objective to synthesize the existing knowledge and expertise about fire management and hazard and defining a concerted researc...
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Springer International Publishing
2024
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