The Okavango Delta, a globally renowned wetland, is characterised by a mosaic of meandering watercourses, floodplains and islands, and is home to a variety of wildlife and vegetation species. It is a major source of livelihoods for the local communities and also an important attraction for tourism, the second most important economic activity in Botswana after diamonds, contributing 5% to the gross domestic product (GDP). As a globally renowned Ramsar Site and major tourist attraction, the Okavango Delta is a resource of national, regional and international importance. This book examines the results of empirical micro-level studies undertaken in the Okavango Delta and contributes to the formulation of relevant policies for sustainable development in the Okavango Delta.

Structural Health Monitoring (SHM), a process of utilising on-structure or remote sensing systems and/or imaging techniques to monitor the performance of structures and evaluate their health conditions, has rapidly grown worldwide on its research and industrial practices in recent years. Recent disastrous bridge failures, such as the collapses of the Nanfang'ao tied-arch bridge in Taiwan, the Wuxi National Highway 312 overpass in China, and the Pont de Mirepoix suspension bridge in France, all in the year 2019, and the Mexico City Metro overpass collapse in 2021, have further reminded us of the importance of structural health monitoring for civil infrastructures. During the last three decades, SHM has attracted enormous research efforts around the world because it targets on monitoring structural conditions to prevent catastrophic failure and to provide quantitative data for engineers and infrastructure owners to design reliable and economical asset management plans. This book showcases the recent advancement in SHM research, especially for civil engineering applications in Australia, covering the state-of-the-art SHM technologies together with its latest developments and successful applications. The book provides a glance on the research outcomes in SHM-related areas delivered by some of the experts in Australian universities. This book is launched to mark the significant milestone of the 10th Anniversary of Australian Network of Structural Health Monitoring (ANSHM) and its contribution to the SHM research and practice over the past 12 years since its inception in 2009. The preparation of this book for an intended completion in 2020 was significantly delayed due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Network, comprising leading Australian SHM experts, aims to promote and advance SHM application, education, research and development in Australia. Although the title of the book highlights recent SHM advances in Australia, the technologies and approaches described can be applied around the world.

Structural health monitoring has international relevance across maritime, aerospace and infrastructure domains for both civilian and military end-users. The aim of this book is to collect the most recent developments and research knowledge on this topic, with focusing in particular on the Asia-Pacific region. The collection covers 54 peer reviewed papers covering up-to-date research results in structural health monitoring. Fifty-six papers from the December 2012 workshop present new developments in monitoring aircraft structure conditions, civil structures, wind turbines, pipelines, and buildi.

The book presents the proceedings of the 9th Asia-Pacific Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring. With the increasing worldwide emphasis on asset sustainability, there is a trend toward Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM) and Reliability-Centred Maintenance (RCM). Both approaches require diagnostic systems which detect damage and monitor structural health and/or prognostic systems that predict the future health of a structure. Keywords: Vibration Monitoring, Railway Bridge, Strain-based Damage, Turbine Blades, Crack and Temperature Sensing, Bone Degradation, Prefabricated Concrete Frame, Impact Damage in Composites, Ferroelectric Single Crystals, Evaluation of Human Injury, Automatic Damage Assessment, Metal-Composite Plates, Osseointegration, High-rise Buildings, Acoustic Emission Source. Earthquake, Wind Turbine Rotor Blades. Smart Cables, Thermal Damages, Cement Materials, Multi-parameter Monitoring, Petri Net Model, Maintenance Strategies, Load Bearing Antenna, Thin Metal Joints, Aerospace Structure.

Structural health monitoring has international relevance across maritime, aerospace and infrastructure domains for both civilian and military end-users. The aim of this book is to collect the most recent developments and research knowledge on this topic, with focusing in particular on the Asia-Pacific region. Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS). The collection covers 54 peer reviewed papers covering up-to-date research results in structural health monitoring.