Geoenvironmental Sustainability focuses on such a society's geoenvironment and the natural capital that defines it.

Features:

• Provides a detailed examination of what constitutes a sustainable geoenvironment
• Discusses development and waste management impacts from the four major components: industrialization, urbanization, resource exploitation, and food production
• Analyzes the basic elements that define the geoenvironment with regard to water and sanitation, energy, health, agriculture, and biodiversity

Contents

Sustainable Society and Geoenvironmental Management

• Geoenvironment, Ecosystems, and Resources
• Geoenvironment as a Natural Resource Base
• WEHAB and the Geoenvironment
• Sustainability

Contamination and Geoenvironmental Land Management

• Contamination and Geoenvironmental Impacts
• Wastes, Pollutants, and Threats
• Surface and Subsurface Soils
• Pollutant Transport and Land Contamination
• Geoenvironmental Land Management

Sustainable Water Management

• Uses of Water and Its Importance
• Characterization of Water Quality, Management, and Monitoring
• Sustainable Water Treatment and Management

Urbanization and the Geoenvironement

• Land Uses by Urbanization
• Impact of Urbanization on WEHAB
• Impact Avoidance and Risk Minimization
• Mitigation and Remediation of Impacts

Natural Resources Extraction and Land Use Impacts

• Sulfide Minerals and Acid Mine Drainage
• Resource Extraction and Land Use
• Sustainable Land Use
• Remediation and Treatment of Mining Sites and Wastes

Food Production and the Geoenvironment

• Land Use for Food Production
• Impact of Food Production on WEHAB
• Tools for Evaluating Sustainability in Agriculture
• Changes in Agricultural Practices to Reduce Impact

Industrial Ecology and the Geoenvironment

• Concept of Industrial Ecology
• Industry Activities and Geoenvironmental Interactions
• Mineral Mining and Processing Downstream Industries
• Agro-Processing Industries
• Petrochemical and Chemical Industries
• Service Industries
• Contaminating Discharges and Wastes

Coastal Marine Environment Sustainability

• Coastal Marine Environment and Impacts
• London Convention and Protocol
• Quality of Marine Sediments
• Rehabilitation of Coastal Marine Environment
• Creation of a Natural Purification System
• Sea Disposal of Waste
• Coastal Erosion

Contaminants and Terrestrial Enviroment Sustainablility

• Indicators
• Assessment of Interaction Impacts
• Pollutant Transport and Fate
• Surface Complexation and Partitioning
• Persistence and Fate
• Prediction of Transport and Fate of Pollutants

Pollutant Impact Mitigation and Management

• Soils for Pollution Mitigation and Control
• Natural Attenuation Capability of Soils
• Natural Attenuation and Impact Management
• Lines of Evidence
• Evidence of Success
• Engineered Mitigation Control Systems

Toward Geoenvironmental Sustainability

• Exploitation and State of Renewable Natural Resources
• Water and Soil Quality Indicators
• Sustainability Attempts

Index

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