Environmental Geology and Sustainability: Risk Mitigation in Urban Areas

by Daniel T. Rogers

Overview

This book explains the role of geology as the basis of sustainability. It discusses how humans have altered natural balances and the unique dimensions that geology brings to understanding sustainability. Focused on humans’ activities in shaping urban areas, this book helps readers identify natural geologic risks created, identify human actions that reduce or increase those risks, or create new risks with unintended negative environmental consequences. It provides sustainability-oriented solutions so that humans can live in harmony with nature.

Features:

• The first book to identify and describe geology as the foundation of sustainability.
• Provides the history and reasoning why geology is important to achieve sustainability and environmental stewardship.
• Goes beyond identifying natural geological and anthropogenic-induced risks by providing numerous case studies and potential solutions.
• Includes an overview of natural geologic and anthropogenic-induced impacts in major cities across the world.
• Examines where environmental regulations in many countries of the world have succeeded or failed and lists those areas where new sustainability-oriented environmental regulations are needed worldwide.

This textbook is for senior undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in environmental geology, Earth science and sustainability, urban planning, and environmental risk analysis. It also serves as an insightful reference for professionals, researchers, and academics in these fields.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032732169
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	06/01/2025
Pages:	544
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Daniel T. Rogers is Director of Environmental Affairs at Amsted Industries Incorporated in Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Rogers participates in environmental due diligence for acquisitions and divestitures, investigation, and remediation of contamination, creating and evaluating environmental compliance and sustainability programs, and providing environmental advice, oversight, training, and negotiation strategies at various levels within the organization. Mr. Rogers has published over 100 research papers in professional and academic publications and peer-reviewed journals on subjects including environmental geology, hydrogeology, geologic vulnerability and mapping, contaminant fate and transport, urban geology, environmental site investigations, contaminant risk, brownfield re-development, remediation, pollution prevention, environmental compliance and management, and sustainable development. He has authored several books, handbooks, and textbooks with CRC Press. He has taught geology and environmental chemistry at Eastern Michigan University and The University of Michigan and has presented guest lectures at several colleges and universities both in the United States and internationally.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction and Overview.  Part I: Fundamentals of Environmental Geology.  2. Introduction to Natural Earth Processes and Human Development.  3. General Geology of Urban Regions.  4. Water and the Hydrogeology of Urban Regions.  5. Geologic and Environmental Hazards.  Part II: Anthropogenic-Induced Environmental Hazards and Risks.  6. Anthropogenic-Induced Hazards.  7. Natural Resource Exploitation.  8. The Science of Chemical Contaminants and Pollution.  9. Invasive and Endangered Species and Extinction.  10. Assessing Global Anthropogenic Impacts.  Part III: Risk Mitigation Methods and Sustainability Measures.  11. Risk Mitigation Methods and Sustainability.  12. Geologic Investigations in Urban Areas.  13. Geologic Sensitivity Maps of Urban Areas.  14.  Improved and New Environmental Regulations.  15. Global Sustainability Actions.  16. Risk Evaluation, Building a Sustainability Model, and Mitigation Alternatives.