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Hazard may mean:
- Dangers, risks, problems
- A hazard, for instance a natural hazard, a danger or source of danger, especially one threatening human safety.
- A hazard (computer architecture), a type of problem inherent in pipelined processors, including data hazard, branching hazard, and structural hazard.
- A hazard (logic), a fault or glitch in a digital logic system, including static hazard and dynamic hazard.
- A hazard pointer, a strategy to deal with reclaiming memory in multithreaded environments.
- A moral hazard, the name given to the risk that one party to a contract can change their behaviour to the detriment of the other party once the contract has been concluded.
- A race hazard, a glitch caused by timing errors.
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Environmental Problems in Karst Lands - Brief review of the engineering and environmental concerns of occupying karst terrain, including mitigation measures.
Karst: The Stealthy Hazard - Illustrated article (in Geotimes) discusses flooding, sinkhole collapse, infrastructure damage, and other impacts from development on karst lands in Kentucky.
Living on Karst - A reference guide for landowners in limestone regions, produced by West Virginia Cave Conservancy. Deals with sinkholes, water pollution concerns, if you have a cave on your property, and related topics.
Meta Description: [ Living on Karst is a manual for limestone regions and a clean ground water environment. ]
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