Geology In The Urban Environment
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Author | : David Leveson |
Publisher | : New York : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
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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 | : Russell O. Utgard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Political Science |
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Author | : Donald R. Nichols |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : City planning |
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Author | : Russell O. Utgard |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1978 |
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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 | : Giorgio Lollino |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 1304 |
Release | : 2014-08-25 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3319090488 |
This book is one out of 8 IAEG XII Congress volumes, and deals with the theme of urban geology. Along with a rapidly growing world population, the wave of urban growth continues, causing cities to swell and new metropolitan centers to emerge. These global trends also open new ventures for underground city development. Engineering geology plays a major role in facing the increasing issues of the urban environment, such as: finding aggregates for construction works; providing adequate water supply and waste management; solving building problems associated to geological and geomorphological conditions; evaluating host rock conditions for underground constructions; preventing or mitigating geological and seismic hazards. Furthermore, this book illustrates recent advancements in sustainable land use planning, which includes conservation, protection, reclamation and landscape impact of open pit mining and alternative power generation. The Engineering Geology for Society and Territory volumes of the IAEG XII Congress held in Torino from September 15-19, 2014, analyze the dynamic role of engineering geology in our changing world and build on the four main themes of the congress: environment, processes, issues and approaches. The congress topics and subject areas of the 8 IAEG XII Congress volumes are: 1. Climate Change and Engineering Geology 2. Landslide Processes River Basins 3. Reservoir Sedimentation and Water Resources 4. Marine and Coastal Processes Urban Geology 5. Sustainable Planning and Landscape Exploitation 6. Applied Geology for Major Engineering Projects 7. Education, Professional Ethics and Public Recognition of Engineering Geology 8. Preservation of Cultural Heritage
Author | : Robert Ferguson Legget |
Publisher | : New York ; Montreal : McGraw-Hill Book Company |
Total Pages | : 648 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Political Science |
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Author | : Donald R. Nichols |
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Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1971 |
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Author | : Matthew R. Bennett |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Science |
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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 | : 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