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Escobar-Wolf, R., Bouali, E.H., Oommen, T. (2016). Risk Assessment. In: Bobrowsky, P., Marker, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Engineering Geology. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12127-7_239-1
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