Geo-Environment and Landscape Evolution: Third International Conference on Evolution, Monitoring, Simulation, Management and Remediation of the Geological Environment and Landscape

by Mander, U.; Martin-duque, J. F. M.; Brebbia, C. A.

• ISBN13: 9781845641177
• ISBN10: 1845641175
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-06-16
• Publisher: Computational Mechanics

Table of Contents

Remediation and restoration
Silica sand slope gullying and mining in Central Spain: erosion processes and geomorphic reclamation of contour mining	p. 3
The problem of flow by-pass at permeable reactive barriers	p. 15
Planning of flood defence management and rehabilitation of the natural habitat in the downstream part of the river Tiber	p. 25
Environmental modelling
The potential impact of agricultural management change on soil restoration of the cereal-growing regions of central spain	p. 37
The nugget-effect approaches of SAKWeb for environmental modelling	p. 47
Occurrence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Kuwait environment	p. 57
The water balance analysis of Kordan Basin (north west of Iran)	p. 65
The behaviour of unsaturated compacted clay under plane strain condition	p. 77
Novel combined approach for bedrock incision analysis: geochemistry and hydraulic modelling. Loire River Application (France)	p. 87
Hydrological modelling of the "Sierra de las Minas" in Guatemala, by using a conceptual distributed model and considering the lack of data	p. 97
Environmental monitoring
Developments in land use in a periurban area of central Portugal: the importance of biophysical parameters	p. 109
Monitoring spit development in Pomene, southern Mozambique, using Landsat data	p. 119
Environmental hazards and pollution
Batch-operation as a method to enhance oxygen supply in a constructed wetland	p. 131
Effect of crude oil pollution on the oil-degrading bacteroids community in the nodules of Arachis hypogaea	p. 143
Water quality of road runoff in the Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia	p. 151
Vertical and horizontal variation in natural chloroform in two adjacent soil profiles in a coniferous forest	p. 161
Landscape analysis
Land use changes on Hiiumaa Island (north-western Estonia) in the last fifty years	p. 173
Mechanisms in recent landscape transformation	p. 183
Greenspaces planning evolution in Madrid in the 20th century	p. 193
Landscape small-scale mapping and sustainable development	p. 203
Investigating the characteristics of Persian gardens: taking a close look at Mahan Shah Zadeh garden	p. 211
"Pimp your landscape" - an interactive land-use planning support tool	p. 219
A comparison of pixel and object-based land cover classification: a case study of the Asmara region, Eritrea	p. 233
Author Index	p. 245
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