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This book bridges the gap between risk assessment and fire safety engineering like few other resources. As all required knowledge for Probability and Statistics for Fire Engineering is included in the preliminary chapters, the book is suitable for teaching Fire Engineering components in a wide range of engineering courses for senior graduates and for postgraduate students of Fire Engineering. It will also serve as a comprehensive reference for professionals. This book describes the theory and the models involved in risk analysis,

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Structural Fire Resistance Experimental Research – Priority Needs of U.S. Industry provides a synthesis of stakeholder input to a prioritized agenda for research at the National Fire Research Laboratory (NFRL) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) designed to accelerate the implementation of performance-based fire engineering for structures. The NFRL presents a broad range of unanswered questions regarding the performance of real structures in fire conditions, and informs performance-based design methods and standards in this field. The authors conducted a comprehensive literature review of large-scale structural fire testing and compiled research needs from a variety of sources. The book addresses major issues of broad concern in the fire community, such as real fire exposure and structural response, composite floor system performance, enhancing modeling performance, and understanding the embedded safety features in design methods. It concludes with a prioritized set of research recommendations for the NIST facility. The scope of issues addressed and broad range of content make this a valuable book for researchers in all aspects of fire resistance experimentation. It will also be useful for those who work with engineering standards for structures.

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Significant loss to business occurs through fires in the workplace. Whether large or small, fire causes personal suffering, damage to plant, equipment and buildings, and loss of business.Fire legislation has changed over the past few years, especially with the introduction of European Directives. New regulations mean that employers have to carry out fire risk assessment and then, as a result of their findings, put in place control measures to prevent loss of life. Fire Hazards in Industry has been designed to cover, in general terms, exactly what is required of employers. It is

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Through an exploration of the United Kingdom Fire and Rescue Service (FRS), this book examines how the emergence of digital technologies, combined with a policy emphasis on risk, have fundamentally transformed the way society is secured against emergencies. Forms of anticipatory governance have developed in which interventions are made in the present but are oriented towards, and justified through, digitally rendered visions of future contingencies. At the same time, risk is understood as a ‘lived relation’: a set of pervasive knowledge found to cut across and constitute everyday life in the FRS. It is by inquiring into such practices and the new modes of power they support that the book engages with, investigates and conceptualises anew some of the key geo-political issues that characterize security and emergency governance. Appealing to scholars interested in risk, digital technologies and their involvement in matters of governance, the book outlines the forms of knowledge now deployed to make sense of and govern the future. It demonstrates the affective and material forces enrolled in emergency governance and elaborates on the range of temporal entanglements that underpin actions taken to govern emergencies yet to unfold. Ultimately the book explores the genealogies inscribed into risk's present mobilisation and asks the reader to consider how we are made subject to forms of governance oriented towards the future?

Social sciences. --- Great Britain --- Religion and culture. --- Sociology. --- Industrial sociology. --- Social Sciences. --- Science and Technology Studies. --- Sociology of Culture. --- Knowledge - Discourse. --- Sociology of Work. --- British Politics. --- Sociology --- Industrial organization --- Industries --- Social theory --- Social sciences --- Culture and religion --- Culture --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Politics and government. --- Social aspects --- Fire risk assessment --- Assistance in emergencies --- Emergency assistance --- Failure to assist in emergencies --- Emergencies --- Bystander effect --- Fire hazard analysis --- Fire hazard assessment --- Fire risk analysis --- Fires --- Hazard analysis, Fire --- Hazard assessment, Fire --- Risk analysis, Fire --- Risk assessment --- Technology—Sociological aspects. --- Great Britain-Politics and gover. --- Culture. --- Great Britain—Politics and government. --- Cultural sociology --- Sociology of culture --- Popular culture

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Scientists and managers alike need timely, cost-effective, and technically appropriate fire-related information to develop functional strategies for the diverse fire communities. "Remote Sensing Modeling and Applications to Wildland Fires" addresses wildland fire management needs by presenting discussions that link ecology and the physical sciences from local to regional levels, views on integrated decision support data for policy and decision makers, new technologies and techniques, and future challenges and how remote sensing might help to address them. While creating awareness of wildland fire management and rehabilitation issues, hands-on experience in applying remote sensing and simulation modeling is also shared. This book will be a useful reference work for researchers, practitioners and graduate students in the fields of fire science, remote sensing and modeling applications. Professor John J. Qu works at the Department of Geography and GeoInformation Science at George Mason University (GMU), USA.  He is the Founder and Director of the Environmental Science and Technology Center (ESTC) and EastFIRE Lab at GMU.

Fire management. --- Wildfire forecasting. --- Wildfires -- Remote sensing. --- Wildfires --- Fire management --- Wildfire forecasting --- Geography --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Physical Geography --- Remote sensing --- Forest fires --- Fire prevention. --- Remote sensing. --- Fire risk assessment. --- Prevention and control. --- Fire hazard analysis --- Fire hazard assessment --- Fire risk analysis --- Fires --- Hazard analysis, Fire --- Hazard assessment, Fire --- Risk analysis, Fire --- Remote-sensing imagery --- Remote sensing systems --- Remote terrain sensing --- Sensing, Remote --- Terrain sensing, Remote --- Buildings --- Fire safety --- Prevention of fires --- Bush fires --- Bushfires --- Wild fires --- Wildland fires --- Risk assessment --- Fires and fire prevention --- Prevention --- Earth sciences. --- Natural disasters. --- Earth Sciences. --- Natural Hazards. --- Fire extinction --- Fire prevention --- Natural disasters --- Deforestation --- Fire weather --- Aerial photogrammetry --- Aerospace telemetry --- Detectors --- Space optics --- Fire protection engineering --- Public safety --- Insurance engineering --- Geology. --- Geognosy --- Geoscience --- Earth sciences --- Natural history --- Natural calamities --- Disasters