Engineering Geology for Society and Territory - Volume 5 Urban Geology, Sustainable Planning and Landscape Exploitation

Engineering Geology for Society and Territory - Volume 5 Urban Geology, Sustainable Planning and Landscape Exploitation / edited by Giorgio Lollino, Andrea Manconi, Fausto Guzzetti, Martin Culshaw, Peter Bobrowsky, Fabio Luino.

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 undergroun...

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Other Authors: Lollino, Giorgio (Editor), Manconi, Andrea (Editor), Guzzetti, Fausto (Editor), Culshaw, Martin (Editor), Bobrowsky, Peter (Editor), Luino, Fabio (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edition:1st ed. 2015.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Geotechnical engineering.
Regional planning.
Urban planning.
Urban geography.
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Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I Keynote
  • Part II Aggregates: The Most Widely Used Raw Material
  • Part III Analysis and Control of Ground Deformations by Remote Monitoring
  • Part IV Building Stones & Ornamental Rocks—Resource Evaluation, Technical Assessment, Heritage Designation
  • Part V Communicating Engineering Geology with Urban Planners
  • Part VI Complexity in Hazard and Risk Assessment
  • Part VII Engineering Geology in Rural Infrastructure Planning
  • Part VIII Engineering Problems in Karst
  • Part IX Excavation in Potentially Asbestos-Bearing Rocks: Methodologies for Risk Evaluation and Safety Management
  • Part X Experiences and Potentialities of Data-Driven Modeling in Earth Science Issues
  • Part XI Geohazard in Urban Scenarios: Forcasting and Protective Monitoring
  • Part XII Geo-Hydrological Risk and Town and Country Planning
  • Part XIII Landslide and Flood Hazard in Urban Areas: Assessment, Monitoring and Mitigation Strategies
  • Part XIV Mapping Urban Subsurface for Geohazard Assessment and Risk Management
  • Part XV Off-Fault Coseismic Surface Effects and Their Impact in Urban Areas
  • Part XVI Remote Sensing Applications for the Detection, Monitoring, Modeling, and Damage Assessment of Critical Structures and Complex
  • Part XVII Surface Fault-Rupture Hazard in Urban Areas
  • Part XVIII The Seismic Microzonation: Input Data, Methodology, and Impact on Planning
  • Part XIX Underground Urban Development
  • Part XX Urban and Land Planning Versus Risks Resilient Management
  • Part XXI Contruction Materials
  • Part XXII Aquifer Vulnerability and Springs/Wells Protection Zones.

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