Planning the Use of the Earth’s Surface

1. Front Matter

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2. Planning the use of the Earth's surface: An overview

   • A. Cendrero

   Pages 1-22

3. Methods and approaches of environmental geology mapping: Meeting the planner's requirement

   • Brian R. Marker

   Pages 23-48

4. Geoscientific maps for land-use planning — a review

   • Ulrike Mattig

   Pages 49-81

5. Computer-assisted methods for the construction, compilation and display of geoscientific maps

   • Gottfried Gabert

   Pages 83-100

6. Geomorphological hazards and environmental impact: Assessment and mapping

   • Mario Panizza

   Pages 101-123

7. Urban geology: Present trends and problems

   • Ed F. J. de Mulder

   Pages 125-140

8. Landslide risk assessment and zoning

   • Jordi Corominas

   Pages 141-173

9. Mapping and modelling quaternary depositional systems to assess groundwater pollution hazards in the glaciated Appalachian region, U.S.A.

   • Kenneth G. Johnson

   Pages 175-197

10. Geoenvironmental units as a basis for the assessment, regulation and management of the Earth's surface

    • A. Cendrero, E. Francis, J. R. Díaz de Terán

    Pages 199-234

11. Geochemistry and the environment

    • Bedřich Moldan

    Pages 235-257

12. Trace element maps and the regional distribution of human diseases

    • Iain Thornton

    Pages 259-281

13. Industrial minerals and rocks: Present trends in exploration, exploitation and use

    • Gred W. Lüttig

    Pages 283-329

14. Mining potential of the inner continental shelf

    • Roger H. Charlier

    Pages 331-370

15. Earth science conservation in Europe present activities and recommended procedures

    • Gerard P. Gonggrijp

    Pages 371-392

16. Reclaiming areas degraded by mining operations

    • Ernesto Gallego Valcarce, Lucas Vadillo Fernández

    Pages 393-408

17. Land-use planning and management in Brazil: A brief review of present experience and environmental problems

    • Helio M. Penha

    Pages 409-420

18. Problems and approaches in environmental geology in Latin America: The Colombian experience

    • Michel Hermelin

    Pages 421-439

19. The integration of environmental geology methods and concepts within the framework of a regional administration; the case of the Comunidad Valenciana, Spain

    • C. Aurenheimer

    Pages 441-455

20. Environmental geology in the United States: Present practice and future training needs

    • Lawrence Lundgren

    Pages 457-482

The purpose of this book is to analyse and discuss a series of topics related with environmental conservation, land-use planning and management and impact prevention as seen from the perspective of the Earth Sciences, but with an inte- grated, interdisciplinary approach. The contributions included in the book intend to give an overview of existing problems and trends and to point out certain lines along which work and/or actions will be par- ticularly needed in the near future. In short, they intend to show where we stand now with regard to those problems and in what direction we should move. Readers will find particularly useful the brief presentation of a variety of important environmental earth science top- ics, the description of the present state of the art and the suggestions for methodological approaches to solve different problems, as well as the guidelines for action presented throughout the book.

• Conservation
• Environmental Geology
• Geoscientific mapping
• Geowissenschaftliche Kartierung
• Land use
• Landschaftsplanung
• Umweltgeologie
• geoscience

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