Chapter 2
The Regional Economic Cost of a Tsunami Wave Generated by a Submarine Landslide Off of Palos Verdes, California
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- Benefit cost ratios
- Business management
- Disaster risk management
- Disasters and hazards
- Economic factors
- Financial management
- Fluid mechanics
- Geohazards
- Geotechnical engineering
- Hydraulic engineering
- Hydraulic properties
- Hydrologic engineering
- Landslides
- Natural disasters
- Practice and Profession
- Submerging
- Tsunamis
- Water and water resources
- Wave generation
- Waves (fluid mechanics)
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