Current Issue
Author(s)
Carlos Andrés Caro Camargo
Universidad Santo Tomás Tunja, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Avenida Universitaria, Tunja, Colombia.
Julián Villate
Pedagogical and Technological University of Colombia, Faculty of Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, Av Norte, Tunja, Colombia.
Laura Garavito
Universidad Santo Tomás Tunja, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Avenida Universitaria, Tunja, Colombia.
ISBN 978-81-976377-9-7 (Print)
ISBN 978-81-976377-0-4 (eBook)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/mono/978-81-976377-9-7
Climate change and extreme phenomena in the world have been causing countless human and material losses, which has led different governments to take action measures to mitigate and prevent possible natural disasters, from the generation of infrastructure to the creation of laws or guidelines that help normalize processes and action schemes. Specifically in Colombia, and as a consequence of the girl phenomenon that occurred in 2010 and 2011, the risk management law was created by the Congress of the Republic in 2012. This law has obliged the different construction sectors to accommodate new demands and depending on the different types of risks, depending on the type of work to be executed or designed. In this book, a guide is presented to determine the threats from fires and torrential floods that may occur in a typical Colombian basin, taking as reference a specific case study.
Services:
1. Professional review, editing and plagiarism checking.
2. Professional cover-page design and typesetting.
3. Specialized English editing and proofreading
4. Digital Object Identifier (DOI) allotment.
5. ISBN number (online and print version)
6. Online publication of the book and printing in the press.
7. Royalty: (80:20) profit sharing between author and publisher from the sale of books. Authors will get 80% of the profit and Publisher will get 20% of the profit.
8. Normally Books will be closed access to increase the possibility of sale and authors will retain the copyright of the book chapter/ books. Special requests of open access books can also be considered in case of complete book publication.
