A new flexible, rapid and affordable risk assessment procedure was developed and verified for dams based on case studies in Scotland (UK) and the region of Baden (Germany). A database of six different sustainable flood retention basin (SFRB) types with varying flood control potential has been...

Results of an econometric research on the natural water control system in a part of Iset river (the Sverdlovsk region) are produced. A low level of effectiveness of the system during the considered period is demonstrated and basic ways of its perfection are substantiated

Recent years have shown a surge of firms globalising their innovation activities in order to gain from international knowledge. This paper evaluates this strategy by investigating whether firms with international R&D are more innovative than firms doing R&D only in their home country. One main...