Geology, environment and society
by Valdiya K S
Published by : Universitites Press Private Limited (Hyderabad) Physical details: 226p. ISBN:81-7371-505-X.
Subject(s):
Geology
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Environment
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Waterresourses
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Human being, geology- agenda for earth care environmental security and safe society, land capacity, nursing soil sickness and treating land injury, caring for water resources, regulating mining activities, coping with natural hazards- providing a framework of strategy, preparing for earthquakes and planning hazard mitigation, stabilizing hillslopes and controlling landslides, lessening ravages of floods, tempering tempest and coping with coastal cyclones, averting avalanches in snowy mountains, enduring climate warming and droughts, applying careful technology for development, laying foundations of buildings and utility structures, constructing transport routes without causing environmental distress, engineering water resources development without causing distress, disposing of soil wastes without polluting groundwater, finding causes of diseases- medical geology Copyright: 1975
Year: 2004
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