Protecting the essential: strategies for dealing with floods

Protecting the essential: strategies for dealing with floods

The growing exposure of cities to the impact of climate-related disasters is driving the search for new strategies and engineering technologies that protect the population and improve infrastructural resilience against extreme phenomena. Of the main scourges of...

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How is the world protected from natural disasters?

How is the world protected from natural disasters?

Extreme catastrophic events, intensified by climate change, represent a growing threat to communities around the world. Some countries, such as Japan, have developed innovative solutions that pave the way for a safer and more resilient future. Earthquakes, hurricanes,...

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Maritime insurance: the real driver of global trade

Maritime insurance: the real driver of global trade

Maritime transport, which represents more than 80% of the volume of global trade, is currently facing significant technological, political and climate challenges. The insurance sector is there to help it overcome them successfully. Whole economies and societies depend...

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Evolution of Risk Management in the Timber Industry

Evolution of Risk Management in the Timber Industry

In recent decades, risk management in factories has undergone significant evolution. This time, we focus on the timber industry. The transformation of Risk Management in the wood sector has enabled the integration of risk perspectives across all areas of management,...

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Ammonia: an immediate solution to naval decarbonization

Ammonia: an immediate solution to naval decarbonization

Ammonia, traditionally used in agriculture and industry, currently has very important potential as naval fuel. In this article we analyze the challenges facing technological adaptation and its role in decarbonizing the maritime sector. We are grateful to José Ramón...

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How is the world protected from natural disasters?

How is the world protected from natural disasters?

Extreme catastrophic events, intensified by climate change, represent a growing threat to communities around the world. Some countries, such as Japan, have developed innovative solutions that pave the way for a safer and more resilient future. Earthquakes, hurricanes,...

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So what do we do with all this renewable energy?

So what do we do with all this renewable energy?

As our society depended for so long on nonrenewable energies, the climate emergency finally accelerated an energy revolution. The challenge today is how to store and optimize renewable energy we generate so we can get the most out of them. Once upon a time, there was...

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