Author | : |
Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Government publications |
ISBN | : 142898464X |
Author | : |
Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Government publications |
ISBN | : 142898464X |
Author | : |
Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Government publications |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Christopher De Sousa |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2021-07-15 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1000401480 |
While industrial and chemical innovations have contributed extensively to human advancement, the darker part of their legacy has been the hundreds of thousands of polluted sites left behind. Governments at all levels have rallied to support the remediation and reuse of these land resources and put many of the nation’s brownfields back into productive use. This book presents two dozen brownfield projects in the United States that have incorporated sustainability, highlighting project features, best management practices, and lessons from the field regarding the underlying policies and practices that enabled these projects to be completed or, in some cases, stalled, altered or abandoned. The case studies represent an array of brownfield projects that aimed to go beyond conventional practice and include a range and variety of end uses (e.g., corner gas stations, industrial, office, residential, brightfields, green space, mixed-use, and transit-oriented developments). The cases investigate site histories, planning and development and examine sustainability characteristics to understand how projects overcame the barriers to brownfield reuse and the implementation of sustainability features and derive a series of lessons learned, including innovative policies, programs, and/or funding mechanisms that helped make these projects work. Sustainable Brownfield Development will be of interest to developers, planners, consultants and community representatives interested in environmental policy, urban planning, community development, ecological restoration, economic development, and parks planning by providing direction and inspiration for those eager to erase the blight of the past and build a more sustainable future.
Author | : S.W. Jacobsz |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 407 |
Release | : 2016-03-30 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1498778089 |
The First Southern African Geotechnical Conference was organised by the Geotechnical Division of the South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE) under the auspices of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) and took place at Sun City, South Africa on 5 and 6 May 2016. More than 60 papers were rec
Author | : Laura Scesi |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 169 |
Release | : 2009-10-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9048124174 |
Understanding water circulation in rocks represents a very important element to solving many of the problems linked with civil, environmental and mining engineering. This book offers a synthesis of the actual knowledge about the fluid flow in rocks: - from the medium characterization and the structural geological survey to the generation of stereonets; - the evaluation of the hydrogeological parameters using either deterministic or probabilistic methodologies; - the evaluation of the preferential flow direction considering the change of the hydrogeological structures; - the methods and models used to simulate the flows. Three case studies are provided; water circulation and slope instability, hydrogeological risk linked with tunnelling, and hydrogeological risk linked with road construction.
Author | : Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 984 |
Release | : 1953 |
Genre | : Geology |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Peter Annin |
Publisher | : Island Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2009-08-25 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 159726637X |
The Great Lakes are the largest collection of fresh surface water on earth, and more than 40 million Americans and Canadians live in their basin. Will we divert water from the Great Lakes, causing them to end up like Central Asia's Aral Sea, which has lost 90 percent of its surface area and 75 percent of its volume since 1960? Or will we come to see that unregulated water withdrawals are ultimately catastrophic? Peter Annin writes a fast-paced account of the people and stories behind these upcoming battles. Destined to be the definitive story for the general public as well as policymakers, The Great Lakes Water Wars is a balanced, comprehensive look behind the scenes at the conflicts and compromises that are the past-and future-of this unique resource.