Book Description

This book contains most of the papers presented at the 3rd International Conference on Evaluation, Monitoring, Simulation, Management and Remediation of the Geological Environment and Landscape held in The New Forest, Ashurst Lodge, UK, in June 2008, organised by the Wessex Institute of Technology, UK, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain, University of Tartu, Estonia, and sponsored by the WIT Transactions on the Built Environment.

This volume brings together international information, experience and research in order to give the reader a greater knowledge and ability to help their communities to develop in a sustainable way. It discusses some of the problems facing the public and private sectors and the engineering and scientific communities. It studies several aspects of environmental pollution, modelling, and monitoring, soil and rock properties, vulnerability studies, ecosystem remediation, climatological processes and hydrological studies, geo-ecology and landscape analysis, geo-environment in urban settings, natural hazards and risks, remote sensing of the environment, environmental planning and management, and restoration of ecosystems.

The papers published in the book are grouped in the following sections: Remediation and Restoration; Environmental Modelling; Environmental Monitoring; Environmental Hazards and Pollution; Landscape Analysis.

Book Contents

Silica sand slope gullying and mining in Central Spain: erosion processes and geomorphic reclamation of contour mining
M. A. Sanz; J. F. Martín-Duque; C. Martín-Moreno; A. Lucía; J. M. Nicolau; J. Pedraza; L. Sánchez; R. Ruiz; A. García;

The problem of flow by-pass at permeable reactive barriers
H. Klammler; K. Hatfield;

Planning of flood defence management and rehabilitation of the natural habitat in the downstream part of the river Tiber
L. de Santoli; D. Astiaso Garcia; A. C. Violante;

The potential impact of agricultural management change on soil restoration of the cereal-growing regions of central spain
D. L. Boellstorff;

The nugget-effect approaches of SAKWeb for environmental modelling
J. Negreiros; M. Painho; A. C. Costa; P. Cabral; T. Oliveira;

Occurrence of in Kuwait environment
A. Akbar; D. AL-Otaibi; H. Drobiova; C. Obwekue; E. Al-Saleh;

The water balance analysis of Kordan Basin (north west of Iran)
H. Moghimi;

The behaviour of unsaturated compacted clay under plane strain condition
M. Fauziah; H. R. Nikraz;

Novel combined approach for bedrock incision analysis: geochemistry and hydraulic modelling. Loire River Application (France)
M. Tombozafy; D. Mimoun; M. Batton-Hubert; D. Graillot; D. Garcia; A. Aoufi;

Hydrological modelling of the “Sierra de las Minas” in Guatemala, by using a conceptual distributed model and considering the lack of data
M. Morales-de la Cruz; F. Francés;

Developments in land use in a periurban area of central Portugal: the importance of biophysical parameters
R. L. Pato; A. Tavares; M. C. Magalhães;

Monitoring spit development in Pomene, southern Mozambique, using Landsat data
E. A. Massuanganhe; W. Arnberg;

Batch-operation as a method to enhance oxygen supply in a constructed wetland
K. Karabelnik; A. Noorvee; E. Põldvere; Ü. Mander;

Effect of crude oil pollution on the oil-degrading bacteroids community in the nodules of
T. Al-Ostad; N. Al-Mansour; E. Al-Saleh;

Water quality of road runoff in the Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia
S. Riley; S. Shrestha; P. Hackney; R. A. Mann;

Vertical and horizontal variation in natural chloroform in two adjacent soil profiles in a coniferous forest
C. N. Albers; T. Laier; O. S. Jacobsen;

Land use changes on Hiiumaa Island (north-western Estonia) in the last fifty years
A. Kaasik; J. Raet; K. Sepp; A. Leito; V. Kuusemets;

Mechanisms in recent landscape transformation
M. Antrop; V. Van Eetvelde;

Greenspaces planning evolution in Madrid in the 20th century
M. J. García; A. I. García; A. D. J. Atkinson;

Landscape small-scale mapping and sustainable development
Z. Sh. Gagaeva; I. A. Kerimov;

Investigating the characteristics of Persian gardens: taking a close look at Mahan Shah Zadeh garden
L. Tajaddini;

“Pimp your landscape” – an interactive land-use planning support tool
C. Fürst; C. Davidsson; K. Pietzsch; M. Abiy; M. Volk; C. Lorz; F. Makeschin;

A comparison of pixel and object-based land cover classification: a case study of the Asmara region, Eritrea
Y. H. Araya; C. Hergarten;

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