Geo-environment and Landscape Evolution: v. 3
Evolution, Monitoring, Simulation, Management and Remediation of the Geological Environment and Landscape
Published on 16. June 2008
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-1-84564-117-7 (ISBN)
Description
Understanding geological processes is fundamental to many fields of study, such as engineering, environmental management, land preservation and restoration, urban environment, land and ecosystem inventories, and scenery assessments and landscaping. The study of the Earth's materials and dynamic processes is essential for success in divers fields of application, and for increased understanding of varying environmental problems, such as air, soil and water pollution, soil erosion, waste disposal, water quality, and building materials and foundations, to name but a few.This book contains papers presented at the Third International Conference on Evaluation, Monitoring, Simulation, Management and Remediation of the Geological Environment and Landscape, held in The New Forest, UK. The meeting brought together a wide range of experts in their fields - researchers, engineers, planners, decision-makers, consultants - to explore the contribution of geosciences and geo-information to environmental management, land preservation, remediation and sustainable development.The papers are arranged into the following topic areas: environmental planning; environmental modelling; environmental monitoring; environmental pollution; remediation; climateological processes; geo-environment in urban settings; geo-ecology; hydrological studies; landscape analysis; natural hazards and risks; remote sensing; soil and rock properties; vulnerability studies; and ecological restoration.
This book should be of interest to a multi-disciplinary readership of researchers, practitioners and government employees interested in the geological environment from diverse backgrounds such as geology, civil engineering, forest and agricultural engineering, geography, biology, ecology, hydrology, architecture, and local planning, among others.
This book should be of interest to a multi-disciplinary readership of researchers, practitioners and government employees interested in the geological environment from diverse backgrounds such as geology, civil engineering, forest and agricultural engineering, geography, biology, ecology, hydrology, architecture, and local planning, among others.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Southampton
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 155 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84564-117-7 (9781845641177)
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Section 1: Remediation and restoration Silica sand slope gullying and mining in Central Spain: erosion processes and geomorphic reclamation of contour mining; The problem of flow by-pass at permeable reactive barriers; Planning of flood defence management and rehabilitation of the natural habitat in the downstream part of the river Tiber Section 2: Environmental modelling The potential impact of agricultural management change on soil restoration of the cereal-growing regions of central Spain; The nugget-effect approaches of SAKWebA(c) for environmental modelling; Occurrence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Kuwait environment; The water balance analysis of Kordan Basin (north west of Iran); The behaviour of unsaturated compacted clay under plane strain condition; Novel combined approach for bedrock incision analysis: geochemistry and hydraulic modelling. Loire River Application (France); Hydrological modelling of the Sierra de las MinasA" in Guatemala, by using a conceptual distributed model and considering the lack of data Section 3: Environmental monitoring Developments in land use in a periurban area of central Portugal: the importance of biophysical parameters; Monitoring spit development in Pomene, southern Mozambique, using Landsat data Section 4: Environmental hazards and pollution Batch-operation as a method to enhance oxygen supply in a constructed wetland; Effect of crude oil pollution on the oil-degrading bacteroids community in the nodules of Arachis hypogaea; Water quality of road runoff in the Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia; Vertical and horizontal variation in natural chloroform in two adjacent soil profiles in a coniferous forest Section 5: Landscape analysis Land use changes on Hiiumaa Island (north-western Estonia) in the last fifty years; Mechanisms in recent landscape transformation; Greenspaces planning evolution in Madrid in the 20th century; Landscape small-scale mapping and sustainable development; Investigating the characteristics of Persian gardens: taking a close look at Mahan Shah Zadeh garden; Pimp your landscapeA" - an interactive land-use planning support tool; A comparison of pixel and object-based land cover classification: a case study of the Asmara region, Eritrea