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  • 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 ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    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 ... Read more

    $575.99 USD

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  • High-Rise Living in Asian Cities

    Edited by Belinda Yuen, Anthony G.O. Yeh ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is intended to fill a knowledge gap in the study of contemporary high-rise living. While there has been much documentation on the engineering and technological aspects of tall buildings, relatively little has been written about the social and livability of high-rise. Much less is written about Asian cities even though Asia is the current hotbed of high-rise development.Even though ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Early Geological Maps of Europe

    Central Europe 1750 to 1840

    by Jan Kozák, Alena Čejchanová, Zdeněk Kukal, Karel Pošmourný ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book focuses on the presentation and evaluation of geological maps of the Central Europe from 1750 up to 1840. Milestones in presentation of stratigraphy and tectonics and new geological models on such maps will be underlined. Map descriptions contain fundamentals editorial data as well as the map author’s affiliation and biographies. It represents for the region of the Central Europe the ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Engineering Geology for Society and Territory - Volume 8

    Preservation of Cultural Heritage

    Edited by Giorgio Lollino, Daniele Giordan, Cristian Marunteanu, Basiles Christaras, Iwasaki Yoshinori, Claudio Margottini ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book is one out of 8 IAEG XII Congress volumes, and deals with the preservation of cultural heritage. In 1972, the World Heritage Convention linked in a single framework the concepts of nature conservation and the preservation of cultural sites. Since then, engineering geology is enlarging its contributions to national and international projects on this topic and is extending its interests to ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Land Subsidence Analysis in Urban Areas

    The Bangkok Metropolitan Area Case Study

    by David G. Zeitoun, Eliyahu Wakshal ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Cities built on unconsolidated sediments consisting of clays, silt, peat, and sand, are particularly susceptible to subsidence. Such regions are common in delta areas, where rivers empty into the oceans, along flood plains adjacent to rivers, and in coastal marsh lands. Building cities in such areas aggravates the problem for several reasons:Construction of buildings and streets adds weight to the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Ways Towards Sustainable Management of Freshwater Resources

    Annual Report 1997

    Series Book 1997 - World in Transition
    atmosphere and vegetation. In what ways can key ural and cultural functions of water, primarily elements of the water balance and the hydrological through direct interference by agriculture and cycle be altered by climate change? To answer this through pollutant loads emanating from point and question, the Council presents an analysis in which non-point sources in settlements, the small business ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • World in Transition: Ways Towards Global Environmental Solutions

    Annual Report 1995

    by German Advisory Council on Global change (WBGU) ...
    Series Book 1995 - World in Transition
    At the first Conference of the Parties of the Climate Convention in Berlin in Spring 1995 it became evident once again: To counteract anthropogenic climate changes, individuals as well as societies have to change their way of thinking and behavior. This accounts for other areas of global environmental change as well. Global trends like soil degradation, loss of biological diversity, water scarcity ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Carbon Sequestration in Urban Ecosystems

    Edited by Rattan Lal, Bruce Augustin ...
    Urbanization drastically alters the ecosystems structure and functions, disrupts cycling of C and other elements along with water. It alters the energy balance and influences climate at local, regional and global scales. In 2008, urban population exceeded the rural population. In 2050, 70% of the world population will live in urban centers. The number of megacities (10 million inhabitants) ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Engineering Geology for Infrastructure Planning in Europe

    A European Perspective

    Edited by Robert Hack, Rafig Azzam, Robert Charlier ...
    Series Book 104 - Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences
    Geologists and civil engineers related to infrastructure planning, design and building describe professional practices and engineering geological methods in different European infrastructure projects. ... Read more

    $359.99 USD

  • Cities at Risk

    Living with Perils in the 21st Century

    Edited by Tiziana Rossetto, Helene Joffe, John Adams ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    With the major growth of the world’s population over the past century, as well as rapid urbanisation, people increasingly live in crowded cities. This trend is often accompanied by proliferation of poorly built housing, uncontrolled use of land, occupation of unsafe environments and overstretched services. When a natural hazard strikes such a city many people are vulnerable to loss of life and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Sustainable Water and Soil Management

    Edited by Tanja Kruse, Andrea Burmester, Sabine Kunst ...

    $89.99 USD

  • Living with the Unexpected

    Linking Disaster Recovery to Sustainable Development in Montserrat

    Translated by I. Adams ...
    by Anja Possekel ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Living with the Unexpected deals with complexity and uncertainty, two major challenges in a world faced with climate change and hazards. The study focuses on appropriate methods which enable vulnerable communities to cope effectively with natural hazards and disasters. The central goal of the book is an applicable combination of hazard management and development planning. Therefore, the ... Read more

    $89.99 USD