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More and more, society requires to know the risk which people, property and the environment are exposed to. The role of the geotechnical engineering profession should increasingly be reducing exposure to threats, reducing risk and protecting people. The objective of the 55th Rankine Lecture is…

Following the Canterbury earthquakes, affected land was zoned to indicate the potential of future land damage due to liquefaction or lateral spreading under earthquake loading. In order to apply a corresponding zoning for unaffected land, as well as land in other provinces, a zoning system…