Environmental Geology of Urban Areas
Author | : Geological Association of Canada |
Publisher | : St. John's, Nfld. : Geological Association of Canada |
Total Pages | : 610 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Geological Association of Canada |
Publisher | : St. John's, Nfld. : Geological Association of Canada |
Total Pages | : 610 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David Leveson |
Publisher | : New York : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
Using case studies of world cities, examines geology and land-use planning, the influence of the earth upon the origin and evolution of cities, and possible relationships between the earth of cities of the future.
Author | : Thomas Walter Grimshaw |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Geology |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Matthew R. Bennett |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
Environmental Geology: geology and the human environment provides a comprehensive introduction to the subject of environmental geology - the interaction of humans with the geological environment. As a subject, environmental geology has grown in popularity with the rise of interest in environmental issues. Despite this, environmental geology is not a new subject but a meld of three related earth science disciplines: economic geology, engineering geology and applied geomorphology, each of which has been given a new focus through the need for greater environmental management. This book is the first of its kind to recognise that the true challenge of environmental geology does not lie in rural areas or in the green issues, but in the urban environment and its resource hinterland. By the year 2000, over 3.5 billion people, over 50% of the world's population, will live in urban areas covering just 1% of the earth's surface. It is here that human interaction with the geological environment is at its most intense: it is here that the practical challenges in environmental geology lie. Urban growth fuels the demand for mineral and water resources, tests our skills as engineering geologists, produces vast volumes of waste which must be managed, and increases human vulnerability to natural hazards. All of these topics are covered within this book. Environmental geology is a practical subject, and environmental geologists have a crucial role in managing our interaction with the geological environment. This textbook demonstrates how environmental geologists can make a practical contribution to managing this interaction allowing both sustained development and environmental conservation.
Author | : Donald R. Nichols |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : City planning |
ISBN | : |
Author | : G. McCall |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1996-07-31 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9789054106470 |
This volume looks at the increasing demand for geoscientific input to planning urban land use, rectifying problems of decay and poor prior procedures, rehabilitating land after the closure of extractive and other industries, designing new constructions, and environmental assessment.
Author | : Robert Ferguson Legget |
Publisher | : New York ; Montreal : McGraw-Hill Book Company |
Total Pages | : 648 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Martin M. Kaufman |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 574 |
Release | : 2011-04-25 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1439852820 |
With the continuing increase in population, more people are sharing the finite resources of the urban watershed, resulting in new and increasingly complex interactions between humans and the environment. Environmental contamination is a chronic problem-and an expensive one. In urban areas, water and soil contamination poses a threat to public healt
Author | : D.E. Alexander |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 712 |
Release | : 1999-03-31 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0412740508 |
A strongly interdisciplinary and wide-ranging survey of the environment of life on Earth: the most authoritative and comprehensive source on environmental science to be collected together in a single volume. Unique in presenting both a basic overview and detailed information on environmental topics. Entries are arranged in an encyclopedic A-Z format and contain extensive cross-references to related entries, as well as references to primary and secondary literature. Over 370 separate entries prepared by 228 leading experts from 25 countries. Incorporates 25 substantial in-depth treatments of key areas and also includes biographies of leading scientists and environmentalists. Contains a comprehensive subject index and a citation index of all referenced authors. The Encyclopedia of Environmental Science is a multidisciplinary reference work, which crosses many fields of interest and includes a wide variety of scholarly and authoritative articles on mankind's environment. It provides information on the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere and geosphere and is careful to focus on the connections between these realms and the Earth as a whole. Taken as a whole, the Encyclopedia surveys basic environmental science and applied areas of study, and is drawn from the physical sciences, life sciences and social sciences. The 228 authors from 25 different countries, many of whom are the leading authorities in their field, include biologists, ecologists, geographers, geologists, political scientists, soil scientists, hydrologists, climatologists, and representatives of many other disciplines and academic specialties. The work, which is amply referenced and cross-referenced, consists of substantial essays on major topics, medium-sized entries and short definitional entries. The shorter entries include useful biographies of leading scientists and environmentalists. The Encyclopedia will be invaluable to all readers interested in the environment of life on Earth, its past, present and future, and its physical and social dimensions. The text provides a source of well-classified basic information as well as covering the leading theories and important debates in the environmental sciences. In addition, the book also includes assessments of the future prospects for the Earth's environment in the face of pollution, population increases and the accelerating transformation of land, air, water and vegetational systems. The Encyclopedia is unique in presenting both a basic overview and detailed information on environmental topics and is suitable for the general scientific reader and the specialized environmental scientist in academic institutions, research laboratories or private practice.
Author | : Edward A. Keller |
Publisher | : Prentice Hall |
Total Pages | : 758 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
For courses in Environmental Geology taken by introductory, non-science majors. Also appropriate for Physical Geology courses emphasizing an environmental perspective. As the human population increases, many decisions concerning our use of natural resources will determine our standard of living and the quality of our environment. This text helps non-science majors develop an understanding of how geology and humanity interface. Ed Keller the author who first defined the environmental geology course focuses on five fundamental concepts of environmental geology: Human Population Growth, Sustainability, Earth as a System, Hazardous Earth Processes, and Scientific Knowledge and Values. These concepts are introduced at the outset of the text, integrated throughout, and revisited at the end of each chapter. Included with every text, the Hazard City CD-ROM gives instructors meaningful, easy-to-assign, and easy-to-grade assignments based on the idealized town of Hazard City.