Editors:
- Examines water, energy, minerals and the environment in a holistic approach towards land use planning and utilization
- Fosters knowledge on finite resources management aimed at a better balance between development and the environment
- Puts all the different factors into perspective to facilitate collaborative solutions
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology Series (ESSTS)
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Table of contents (23 entries)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Front Matter
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Land and the Environment
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Environmental Remediation and Sustainability
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About this book
Topics covered in this volume include impacts of natural disasters such as earthquakes and sinkholes, water and its use, overuse, and role in energy generation, and carbon sequestration. The topics covered here all play a role in development and the potential to sustain a growing world population. Interactions among system components mean that no single aspect can be addressed without including another. Environmental Geology places these different factors into perspective so that scientists, politicians, economists, planners, and stakeholders can work together to develop solutions that provide an acceptable balance between development and the environmental services on which we all depend.
Editors and Affiliations
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PELA GeoEnvironmental, Tuscaloosa, USA
James W. LaMoreaux
About the editor
Dr. LaMoreaux is a member of the Advisory Board for SpringerBriefs; Editor of the Environmental Earth Sciences Book Series; and Editor of the Geoenvironmental Section of the International Encyclopedia of Sustainability, Science and Technology published by Springer.
Dr. LaMoreaux has been a member of the Water Environment Federation (WEF) for over 30 years. He served as President and State Director of the Alabama Water Environment Association (AWEA) and as a member of the Program, Industrial Waste, Groundwater, Hazardous Waste and Public Education Committees of WEF.
He served as Editor of the AWEA Newsletter as well as Editor of the newsletters for the American Institute of Hydrogeologists and the Environmental Institute for Waste Management Studies
Dr. LaMoreaux serves on the Executive Committee of the International Association of Hydrogeologists US National Committee. He formerly served on the Board of Directors of the American Ground Water Trust.
He is the author and/or editor of numerous technical publications including the following books: Environmental Hydrogeology; Legislative History of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act; Survival and Sustainability-Environmental Concerns in the 21st Century; Advances in Research in Karst Media.
He received his MS and PhD degrees from Syracuse University in 1970 and 1976 respectively and his BA from the University of Alabama in 1968.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Environmental Geology
Editors: James W. LaMoreaux
Series Title: Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8787-0
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Reference Module Physical and Materials Science, Reference Module Earth and Environmental Sciences
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-8786-3Published: 08 May 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-8787-0Published: 08 May 2019
Series ISSN: 2629-2378
Series E-ISSN: 2629-2386
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 472
Number of Illustrations: 28 b/w illustrations, 203 illustrations in colour
Topics: Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences, Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology, Hydrology/Water Resources, Environmental Geography, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts