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Dr. Eric GIELEN
Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

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Journal article
Published: 28 July 2020 in Sustainability
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Universities are showing a growing interest in becoming green institutions and improving campus open space management. Well-designed urban landscapes guided by green criteria integrate eco-friendly infrastructure which may be effective in facing urban challenges in the context of climate change. Student preferences and uses of campus outdoor environment should draw the attention of campus landscape planners. This study aims to analyse how the university community perceives landscape services provided by the Spanish Universitat Politècnica de València’s campus open space. An online questionnaire was sent to the university community to check its opinions, level of satisfaction, and their demands related to the current situation of the outdoor areas. Campus open spaces with different urban green infrastructure have a high potential to provide cultural, provisioning, and regulation landscape services. Respondents perceive the main benefits provided by campus open spaces to be that they are a place to relax, meet friends, and pass through. Their needs related to the welfare of outdoor areas and their preferences differ according to age, occupation, and time spent at the campus. This paper intends to help the university to meet environmental guidelines and to help other universities in their endeavour to reach sustainability and ensure the university community’s well-being.

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Carla Tudorie; María Vallés-Planells; Eric Gielen; Rosa Arroyo; Francisco Galiana. Towards a Greener University: Perceptions of Landscape Services in Campus Open Space. Sustainability 2020, 12, 6047 .

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Carla Tudorie, María Vallés-Planells, Eric Gielen, Rosa Arroyo, Francisco Galiana. Towards a Greener University: Perceptions of Landscape Services in Campus Open Space. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (15):6047.

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Carla Tudorie; María Vallés-Planells; Eric Gielen; Rosa Arroyo; Francisco Galiana. 2020. "Towards a Greener University: Perceptions of Landscape Services in Campus Open Space." Sustainability 12, no. 15: 6047.

Journal article
Published: 23 August 2019 in Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
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In Europe, especially in the Valencian Community, Spain, the growth of cities in the last few decades has brought with it a major paradigm change, shifting from a compact to a sprawling urban model. Although it is known about its important environmental, social, and economic effects, there is no clear and unequivocal measurement of the impact of urban sprawl on municipal spending. The impact of the sprawling city on public finances and on the cost of local public services is clearly one of the conditioning factors that should be assessed when making urban development decisions. Based on a measurement of the sprawling city, our aim is to calculate the effect of urban sprawl on the local administration’s expenditure and particularly on the cost of basic public municipal services. These are obtained through a statistical model with cost functions that can assess the increase in spending prompted by urban sprawl for municipal current expenditure. The proposed model is novel in the field of urban planning and is based on a Bayesian hierarchical model with the ability to include modeling constraints among the expenditures variables and handle missing values accurately. With this paper, we show that urban sprawl has a significant and positive effect on the unit cost of local public services, which results in an inefficient urban growth model from the economic point of view. The effect is not transferred homogeneously to the budget. There are spending items that are more sensitive to urban sprawl like expenditure on security and public transportation and community wellbeing, which primarily covers waste collection, elimination, and treatment; sanitation, and water supply and distribution; road cleaning; and public lighting.

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Eric Gielen; Gabriel Riutort-Mayol; José Luis Miralles i Garcia; José Sergio Palencia Jiménez. Cost assessment of urban sprawl on municipal services using hierarchical regression. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science 2019, 48, 280 -297.

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Eric Gielen, Gabriel Riutort-Mayol, José Luis Miralles i Garcia, José Sergio Palencia Jiménez. Cost assessment of urban sprawl on municipal services using hierarchical regression. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science. 2019; 48 (2):280-297.

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Eric Gielen; Gabriel Riutort-Mayol; José Luis Miralles i Garcia; José Sergio Palencia Jiménez. 2019. "Cost assessment of urban sprawl on municipal services using hierarchical regression." Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science 48, no. 2: 280-297.

Conference paper
Published: 19 July 2018 in Libro de Actas IN-RED 2018: IV Congreso Nacional de Innovación Educativa y Docencia en Red
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El aprendizaje lúdico como estrategia didáctica en materias de Ordenación del Territorio y Urbanismo es el reto del Proyecto de Innovación y Mejora Educativa (PIME) “El territorio en juego”. Se pretende construir un entorno de enseñanza-aprendizaje que estimule al alumnado a crear su propio conocimiento y experiencia, a través del diseño de un juego de mesa. La propuesta está diseñada para paliar las debilidades y amenazas detectadas, potenciar las fortalezas y aprovechar las posibilidades del recurso lúdico didáctico, para mejorar el aprendizaje, aplicar conocimientos, reflexionar sobre el territorio y motivar al alumnado. Se presentan aquí los resultados de la primera fase del PIME, en la cual utilizando una metodología basada en técnicas implicativas y reflexivas, se testean tres juegos comercializados. Los juegos testeados nos sitúan ante situaciones que se posicionan en los extremos: absolutamente cooperativo-absolutamente competitivo, siendo la colaboración un instrumento comercial y la sostenibilidad un principio escasamente contemplado o anulado. Sin embargo, cada uno de ellos proporcionan elementos y técnicas de juego interesantes que, adecuadamente combinados en el modelo propio de juego, pueden ser útiles para mejorar el aprendizaje y por tanto los resultados de los alumnos de Urbanismo y Ordenación del Territorio, fin ultimo del PIME que aquí se presenta. Palabras clave: aprendizaje lúdico, metodología activa, juego de cooperación-oposición, ordenación del territorio.

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María Mercedes Trenor Galindo; Asenet Sosa Espinosa; Eric Gielen; José Sergio Palencia Jiménez; Yaiza Pérez Alonso; María Salomé Moreno Navarro; Rafael Ramón Temes Córdovez; José Luis Miralles García. El aprendizaje lúdico como estrategia didáctica: El territorio en Juego. Libro de Actas IN-RED 2018: IV Congreso Nacional de Innovación Educativa y Docencia en Red 2018, 1 .

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María Mercedes Trenor Galindo, Asenet Sosa Espinosa, Eric Gielen, José Sergio Palencia Jiménez, Yaiza Pérez Alonso, María Salomé Moreno Navarro, Rafael Ramón Temes Córdovez, José Luis Miralles García. El aprendizaje lúdico como estrategia didáctica: El territorio en Juego. Libro de Actas IN-RED 2018: IV Congreso Nacional de Innovación Educativa y Docencia en Red. 2018; ():1.

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María Mercedes Trenor Galindo; Asenet Sosa Espinosa; Eric Gielen; José Sergio Palencia Jiménez; Yaiza Pérez Alonso; María Salomé Moreno Navarro; Rafael Ramón Temes Córdovez; José Luis Miralles García. 2018. "El aprendizaje lúdico como estrategia didáctica: El territorio en Juego." Libro de Actas IN-RED 2018: IV Congreso Nacional de Innovación Educativa y Docencia en Red , no. : 1.

Conference paper
Published: 08 May 2018 in Urban Growth and the Circular Economy
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Irene López Chofre; Eric Gielen; José S. Palencia Jiménez. APPROACH TO URBAN METABOLISM OF ALMASSORA MUNICIPALITY, SPAIN, AS A TOOL FOR CREATING A SUSTAINABLE CITY. Urban Growth and the Circular Economy 2018, 1 .

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Irene López Chofre, Eric Gielen, José S. Palencia Jiménez. APPROACH TO URBAN METABOLISM OF ALMASSORA MUNICIPALITY, SPAIN, AS A TOOL FOR CREATING A SUSTAINABLE CITY. Urban Growth and the Circular Economy. 2018; ():1.

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Irene López Chofre; Eric Gielen; José S. Palencia Jiménez. 2018. "APPROACH TO URBAN METABOLISM OF ALMASSORA MUNICIPALITY, SPAIN, AS A TOOL FOR CREATING A SUSTAINABLE CITY." Urban Growth and the Circular Economy , no. : 1.

Journal article
Published: 01 April 2018 in International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning
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The big urban development produced in Spain about last 30 years has produced a paradigm shift in the regional urban model. The traditionally compact...

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Eric Gielen; José Luis Miralles I Garcia; Gabriel Riutort Mayol. Multidimensional characterization of the regional urban model and the urban sprawl in Valencia. International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning 2018, 13, 493 -505.

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Eric Gielen, José Luis Miralles I Garcia, Gabriel Riutort Mayol. Multidimensional characterization of the regional urban model and the urban sprawl in Valencia. International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning. 2018; 13 (4):493-505.

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Eric Gielen; José Luis Miralles I Garcia; Gabriel Riutort Mayol. 2018. "Multidimensional characterization of the regional urban model and the urban sprawl in Valencia." International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning 13, no. 4: 493-505.

Conference paper
Published: 27 September 2017 in Proceedings 24th ISUF 2017 - City and Territory in the Globalization Age
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The Litoral-Cota 100 zone represents approximately 25% of the total area of the Region of Valencia and concentrates more than 70% of the urban area. One of the consequences of this situation has been the high urban developments produced in the last 50 years. The Comunitat Valenciana has a river flood hazard mapping, according to which, in the Litoral area, more than 80% of the flood hazard is concentrated. As a result of the experienced urban development and the extent of flooding, there is a significant number of people and property exposed to flood hazards. In order to analyze in detail the urban morphology on the coast and its interaction with floods, research has focused on the specific area of the final section of the Girona River, in the province of Alicante. Specifically, in the municipalities of Els Poblets, El Verger, Denia and Beniarbeig, located in the surroundings of the Girona River, very different urban morphologies have been generated that are not adapted to the existing flood hazard. The analysis carried out allows us to conclude that, despite the significant expansion of urban land, existing urban morphology offers ample possibilities to reduce the risk of flooding. It is proposed the integration of overflows in the built city, avoiding the consolidation of non-built land and designing particular measures on affected buildings. These measures of adaptation to the problem will generate a resilient urban morphology.

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Jose Sergio Palencia Jiménez; Eric Gielen; Yaiza Pérez Alonso. Resilient Urban Morphology to the flood risk in the final stretch of the Girona River (Alicante province). Proceedings 24th ISUF 2017 - City and Territory in the Globalization Age 2017, 1 .

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Jose Sergio Palencia Jiménez, Eric Gielen, Yaiza Pérez Alonso. Resilient Urban Morphology to the flood risk in the final stretch of the Girona River (Alicante province). Proceedings 24th ISUF 2017 - City and Territory in the Globalization Age. 2017; ():1.

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Jose Sergio Palencia Jiménez; Eric Gielen; Yaiza Pérez Alonso. 2017. "Resilient Urban Morphology to the flood risk in the final stretch of the Girona River (Alicante province)." Proceedings 24th ISUF 2017 - City and Territory in the Globalization Age , no. : 1.

Conference paper
Published: 27 September 2017 in Proceedings 24th ISUF 2017 - City and Territory in the Globalization Age
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The accelerated urban growth of the last decades in Europe has caused, especially in the Spanish Mediterranean coast, a paradigm shift in much cities, moving from a mostly compact urban form to a more diffuse one. The concept of city has changed so much that even in a lot of dispersed municipalities, it becomes difficult to define its limits. This change implies not only ecological and economic impacts, but also, social effects. Urban sprawl makes difficult social interaction and reduces the community feeling, and therefore, social cohesion and identity. This produces also changes in the relations of citizens between them and with the city council. The research propounds a discussion about the challenges that the urban sprawl causes for the application of participative models in the decision making, understanding them as basic criterion of good government. We analyze a case study to extract the complexity of articulating processes of citizen participation in territory with high dispersion based on a project carried out in the municipality of La Pobla de Vallbona (Valencia) on participatory budgets. It analyzes the results of the process carried out in relation to the urban model, the morphology of their urban pieces and spatial structure, and the demographic and social characteristics of the municipality. The question is identifying the problematic for the articulation of participative processes in territories with this idiosyncrasy. Finally, the article suggests a series of strategic lines as starting points to achieve participatory processes in the city characterized by urban sprawl.

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Eric Gielen; Yaiza Pérez Alonso; José Sergio Palencia Jiménez; Asenet Sosa Espinosa. Urban sprawl and citizen participation. A case study in the municipality of La Pobla de Vallbona (Valencia). Proceedings 24th ISUF 2017 - City and Territory in the Globalization Age 2017, 1 .

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Eric Gielen, Yaiza Pérez Alonso, José Sergio Palencia Jiménez, Asenet Sosa Espinosa. Urban sprawl and citizen participation. A case study in the municipality of La Pobla de Vallbona (Valencia). Proceedings 24th ISUF 2017 - City and Territory in the Globalization Age. 2017; ():1.

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Eric Gielen; Yaiza Pérez Alonso; José Sergio Palencia Jiménez; Asenet Sosa Espinosa. 2017. "Urban sprawl and citizen participation. A case study in the municipality of La Pobla de Vallbona (Valencia)." Proceedings 24th ISUF 2017 - City and Territory in the Globalization Age , no. : 1.

Proceedings article
Published: 05 July 2017 in Proceedings - 1st Congress in Geomatics Engineering - CIGeo
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The territory is configured by different urban models. During the last decades the tendency in many European countries has been forward to an urban sprawl development model. This kind of development causes several economic, social and environmental effects. This paper is focused on studying the environmental effects of the urban sprawl model for all municipalities of Valencia. These effects are measured over a set of 14 environmental indicators. First of all, an urban sprawl index is calculated by means of the Principal Component Analysis technique from the three more characteristic variables of the sprawl phenomenon. Finally, a regression model with spatially correlated effects is formulated with the aim of estimating the effects of the urban sprawl model on the environmental indicators. It is concluded that the sprawl model causes significant effects on most of the environmental indicators.http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/CIGeo2017.2017.6622

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Salvador Miñana-Fayos; Eric Gielen; Gabriel Riutort-Mayol. DISPERSIÓN URBANA Y SOSTENIBILIDAD AMBIENTAL EN LA COMUNITAT VALENCIANA. Proceedings - 1st Congress in Geomatics Engineering - CIGeo 2017, 144 -152.

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Salvador Miñana-Fayos, Eric Gielen, Gabriel Riutort-Mayol. DISPERSIÓN URBANA Y SOSTENIBILIDAD AMBIENTAL EN LA COMUNITAT VALENCIANA. Proceedings - 1st Congress in Geomatics Engineering - CIGeo. 2017; ():144-152.

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Salvador Miñana-Fayos; Eric Gielen; Gabriel Riutort-Mayol. 2017. "DISPERSIÓN URBANA Y SOSTENIBILIDAD AMBIENTAL EN LA COMUNITAT VALENCIANA." Proceedings - 1st Congress in Geomatics Engineering - CIGeo , no. : 144-152.

Research article
Published: 01 February 2017 in Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
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Urban sprawl is now a common and threatening phenomenon in Europe, severely affecting environmental and economic sustainability. An analytical characterization and measurement of urban sprawl are required to gain a better understanding of the phenomenon and to propose the possible solutions. Traditional factor analysis techniques, especially Principal Component Analysis and Factor Analysis, have been commonly used. In this paper, we additionally test Independent Component Analysis with the aim to obtain a multidimensional characterization of the sprawl phenomenon. We also use Bayesian Factor Analysis to obtain a single (unidimensional) measuring index of sprawl, which also allows us to obtain the uncertainty of the inferred index, in contrast to traditional approaches. All these techniques have been applied to study the phenomenon of urban sprawl at the municipality level in Valencia, Spain using a wide set of variables related to the characteristics and patterns of urban land use.

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Eric Gielen; Gabriel Riutort-Mayol; José Sergio Palencia Jiménez; Isidro Cantarino. An urban sprawl index based on multivariate and Bayesian factor analysis with application at the municipality level in Valencia. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science 2017, 45, 888 -914.

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Eric Gielen, Gabriel Riutort-Mayol, José Sergio Palencia Jiménez, Isidro Cantarino. An urban sprawl index based on multivariate and Bayesian factor analysis with application at the municipality level in Valencia. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science. 2017; 45 (5):888-914.

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Eric Gielen; Gabriel Riutort-Mayol; José Sergio Palencia Jiménez; Isidro Cantarino. 2017. "An urban sprawl index based on multivariate and Bayesian factor analysis with application at the municipality level in Valencia." Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science 45, no. 5: 888-914.

Dissertation
Published: 25 April 2016 in COSTES DEL URBAN SPRAWL PARA LA ADMINISTRACIÓN LOCAL. EL CASO VALENCIANO.
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Eric Madeleine Pierre Gielen. COSTES DEL URBAN SPRAWL PARA LA ADMINISTRACIÓN LOCAL. EL CASO VALENCIANO. COSTES DEL URBAN SPRAWL PARA LA ADMINISTRACIÓN LOCAL. EL CASO VALENCIANO. 2016, 1 .

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Eric Madeleine Pierre Gielen. COSTES DEL URBAN SPRAWL PARA LA ADMINISTRACIÓN LOCAL. EL CASO VALENCIANO. COSTES DEL URBAN SPRAWL PARA LA ADMINISTRACIÓN LOCAL. EL CASO VALENCIANO.. 2016; ():1.

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Eric Madeleine Pierre Gielen. 2016. "COSTES DEL URBAN SPRAWL PARA LA ADMINISTRACIÓN LOCAL. EL CASO VALENCIANO." COSTES DEL URBAN SPRAWL PARA LA ADMINISTRACIÓN LOCAL. EL CASO VALENCIANO. , no. : 1.

Journal article
Published: 19 November 2014 in Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
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This paper proposes a method of valuing the stock of residential buildings in Spain as the first step in assessing possible damage caused to them by natural hazards. For the purposes of the study we had access to the SIOSE (the Spanish Land Use and Cover Information System), a high-resolution land-use model, as well as to a report on the financial valuations of this type of building throughout Spain. Using dasymetric disaggregation processes and GIS techniques we developed a geolocalized method of obtaining this information, which was the exposure variable in the general risk assessment formula. Then, with the application over a hazard map, the risk value can be easily obtained. An example of its application is given in a case study that assesses the risk of a landslide in the entire 23 200 km2 of the Valencia Autonomous Community (NUT2), the results of which are analysed by municipal areas (LAU2) for the years 2005 and 2009.

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Isidro Cantarino; Francisco Javier Torrijo; S. Palencia; E. Gielen. Assessing residential building values in Spain for risk analyses – application to the landslide hazard in the Autonomous Community of Valencia. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 2014, 14, 3015 -3030.

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Isidro Cantarino, Francisco Javier Torrijo, S. Palencia, E. Gielen. Assessing residential building values in Spain for risk analyses – application to the landslide hazard in the Autonomous Community of Valencia. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences. 2014; 14 (11):3015-3030.

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Isidro Cantarino; Francisco Javier Torrijo; S. Palencia; E. Gielen. 2014. "Assessing residential building values in Spain for risk analyses – application to the landslide hazard in the Autonomous Community of Valencia." Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 14, no. 11: 3015-3030.

Preprint content
Published: 22 May 2014 in Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences Discussions
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This paper proposes a method of valuing the stock of residential buildings in Spain as the first step in assessing possible damage caused to them by natural hazards. For the purposes of the study we had access to the SIOSE (the Spanish Land Use and Cover Information System), a high-resolution land-use model, as well as to a report on the financial valuations of this type of buildings throughout Spain. Using dasymetric disaggregation processes and GIS techniques we developed a geolocalized method of obtaining this information, which was the exposure variable in the general risk assessment formula. If hazard maps and risk assessment methods – the other variables – are available, the risk value can easily be obtained. An example of its application is given in a case study that assesses the risk of a landslide in the entire 23 200 km2 of the Valencia Autonomous Community (NUT2), the results of which are analyzed by municipal areas (LAU2) for the years 2005 and 2009.

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I. Cantarino; F. J. Torrijo; S. Palencia; E. Gielen. Assessing residential buildings value in Spain for risk analyses. Application to the landslide hazard in the Autonomous Community of Valencia. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences Discussions 2014, 1 .

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I. Cantarino, F. J. Torrijo, S. Palencia, E. Gielen. Assessing residential buildings value in Spain for risk analyses. Application to the landslide hazard in the Autonomous Community of Valencia. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences Discussions. 2014; ():1.

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I. Cantarino; F. J. Torrijo; S. Palencia; E. Gielen. 2014. "Assessing residential buildings value in Spain for risk analyses. Application to the landslide hazard in the Autonomous Community of Valencia." Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences Discussions , no. : 1.