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Biomass Smoke and Health Risks – The Situation in Develo** Countries
About half of the world’s population relies on traditional fuels such as biomass (wood, agricultural residues, animal dung and charcoal) as the...
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Indoor Air Pollution by Microorganisms and Their Metabolites
Microbial damage in indoor areas is caused most frequently by molds and bacteria. These microorganisms have a very important role in the...
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Prospects for International Management of Intercontinental Air Pollution Transport
The recognition of the intercontinental transport of air pollution continues a historic trend towards greater awareness and management of air...
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Sources and Impacts of Pesticides in Indoor Environments
Indoor contamination is one source of exposure to toxic pollutants and has been classified as a high environmental risk. Epidemiological research...
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Numerical Modelling of Long-Range Pollution Transport
A quantitative understanding of long-range transport of air pollution involves several aspects from different science areas: emissions of ozone...
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Intercontinental Transport of Air Pollution: An Introduction
This chapter introduces the reader to the topic of intercontinental air pollution transport. It starts by describing how air pollution problems...
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Long Range Transport of Air Pollution to the Arctic
Transport of air pollution to the Arctic is reviewed with emphasis on what has been measured. General atmospheric circulation patterns especially...
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Small-Scale Mantle Plumes: Imaging and Geodynamic Aspects
Columnar, upwelling masses of hot rock in the Earth’s mantle, called mantle plumes, are spectacular features of our planet because they supply the...
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A Combined Geophysical/Engineering Approach for the Seismic Safety of Long-Span Bridges
The spatial distribution of the resonance frequency of the sedimentary cover in the Cologne area was estimated by the horizontal-to-vertical spectral...
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4 Specific Features of Coupled Fluid Flow and Chemical Reaction
In many geologic processes, water-rock interactions are driven by continues supply of reactants provided by flowing groundwater. When water that...
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5 Fossil Hydrothermal Systems
Reactive transport modeling of the history of fossil hydrothermal systems provides the basis for understanding genesis of ore deposits as well as...
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International Standardisation of Ground Investigation and Testing Methods
Three committees of the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) and European Committee for Standardisation (CEN) prepare common...
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Some Basic Considerations about the Necessities and Possibilities of Cooperation between Civil Engineers and Engineering Geologists
The education of civil engineers and engineering geologists is different. While civil engineers are commonly educated and trained in mathematical and...
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Coring Performance to Characterise the Geology in the “Cran aux Iguanodons” of Bernissart (Belgium)
The “Cran aux iguanodons” of Bernissart is a sinkhole (or chimney caving) with a valuable paleontological deposit due to the exceptional quantity and...
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Site Investigation for Abandoned Lignite Mines in Urban Environment
The existence of shallow coal mining in urban environments poses a great danger to engineering works due to either the cree** subsidence at the...
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Engineering Geological Model of the Contact between Two Petrographic and Stratigraphic Units along the Zagreb-Split Highway, Croatia
The highway route Zagreb-Split, section through Lika region, was designed along the valley of the River Gacka. In this section the highway level line...
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Soil Investigations Requirements from the Construction Industry
When the majority of soil investigation methods concentrate on the characterization of the soil in terms of soil-structure interactions or structural...
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Creep Behaviour of Alpine Salt Rock and the Influence of Insoluble Residues in Solution Mining
In Austrian salt mining, brine is won by way of solution mining with the borehole well method. The Alpine salt rock (Haselgebirge) consists of a high...
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Cut-and-Cover Tunnel below Boulevard River Meuse, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Paper describes the geotechnical risks and soil investigations related to design and con- struction of the cut-and-cover tunnel below the western...
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Smart Site Investigations Save Money!
More appropriate and well-timed site investigations have a major positive impact in order to reduce the risk of failure. Design and construction of...