Collective defence and Article 5

Actions under Article 5 following the 9/11 attacks On 11 September 2001, the United States was struck by brutal terrorist attacks that killed and injured thousands of people. The Alliance’s response to 9/11 saw NATO engage actively in the fight against terrorism, launch its first operations outside the Euro-Atlantic area and begin a far-reaching transformation of […]

Climate Reports | United Nations

UNEP and others | 2021 Production Gap Report 20 October 2021 The 2021 Production Gap Report finds that despite increased climate ambitions and net-zero commitments, governments plan to produce more than double the amount of fossil fuels in 2030 than what would be consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5°C. Over the next two decades, […]

Analysis, Design, and Construction of a Base‐Isolated Multiple Building Structure – Sorace – 2014 – Advances in Civil Engineering

1. Introduction Base isolation is nowadays a well-established and viable antiseismic design strategy for new buildings and bridges, as well as for the retrofit of existing ones, with several thousand applications in over 30 earthquake-prone countries worldwide. The use of this technology, originally restricted to massive and stiff structures, has been progressively extended in the […]