Geosciences and Human Survival, Environment, Natural Hazards, Global Change

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GEOSCIENCES AND HUMAN SURVIVAL, ENVIRONMENT, NATURAL HAZARDS

Monitoring of dangerous geodynamical processes in highland areas
I.T. Aitmatov, I.A. Torgoyev and Yu.G. Alioshin

Analysis of geo-environmental system of Dongting Lake
Zhang Renquan, Liang Xing, Sun Lianfa, Jin Menggui, Li Zhenhua, Zhang Guoliang, Pi Jiangao, Wang Mingfu and Duan Wenzhong

Eastern Asia natural hazards mapping project
Hirokazu Kato

Computer intelligence decision support system of geological hazards for prediction and prevention and treatment in Beijing-Tianjin-Tangshan region (GHIDSS)
Liu Yifen, Hu Ruilin, Shi Jiansheng, Zhang Yongbo and Li Xiangquan

The spatial information system to predict regional debris flow
Li Dongtian, Li Jiren and Zhu Wensheng

Impact of the oil field development on environment: Geothermal study
A.V. Khristoforov and N.N. Khristoforova

Anthropogenic material flow - A geologic factor
P. Neumann-Mahlkau

Geochemistry of fluorine in shallow ground water - A case study in the Xingtai piedmont plain, Hebei, China
Zeng Jianhui

The problems of study and assessment of the geoenvironmental state in Russia
G.S. Vartanyan, V.V. Kurennoy, L.A. Ostrovsky, A.I. Sheko and A.A. Shpak

Recent advances in environmental geoscience
Yan Tongzhen, Yan Lei, Tang Huiming and Fang Yun

Geoecological environmental types and qualities and predict on their evolutions in 21st Century in China
Lu Yaoru, Tong Guobang, Guo Yonghai, Zhang Feng'e and Yang Lijuan

Application of mineral resource assessments to regional screening for potential environmental hazards related to bedrock mineral concentrations
S.H.B. Clark

The Earth Sciences and society: the needs for the 21st Century
W.S. Fyfe

Urban geology of Xi'an - analysis on the ground fissures
Momikura Yoshimasa, Sun Yao and Sato Eiichi

Preliminary geotechnical assessments of the potential for underground space development in Hong Kong
K.J. Roberts, H.H. Choy and R.P. Martin

The preliminary study of potential contamination related to the combustion of coal in thermal power plant
Zeng Rongshu, Zhao Jiehui and Xu Wendong

Groundwater resources development of urban areas in China
Wang Zhaoxin and Ji Chuanmao

Study of land subsidence in Tianjin
Qu Huanlin and Guo Zhangrong

Secondary pollution mechanism of aerated zone in geological environmental evolution of mountain city
Wang Lansheng, Liu Dan, Yang Lizheng, Xu Xizhen, Jiang Yun and Liu Zhian

Earth fissure, land subsidence and their geoenvironmental effects
Wang Lansheng, Xu Jin, Zhao Qihua and Li Tianbin

Geoenvironmental problems of urban development in China
Wang Sijing

Urban construction planning and Aerial Remote Sensing Information System of Shanghai
Sun Jianzhong, Chen Zhimo, Jiang Zhixiang and Ren Jing

Geosites and their protection in China
Pan Jiang, Lu Liwu and Ji Shu'an

Geoscience for sustainable development; the next decade
E.F.J. de Mulder and U.G. Cordani

The Underground Municipal Information System (UMIS)
E.F.J. de Mulder, B.A.M. Baardman and A.M. ten Kate

GLOBAL CHANGE

Spectral analysis of a grainsize record of the loess deposits in central China
J. van Huissteden, G. Nugteren, J. Vandenberghe and Z.S. An

Climate variations near Beijing over the last 1130 years: Evidence from annual layers in a stalagmite from Shihua Cave, China
T.S. Liu, M. Tan, X.G. Qin and D. Zhang

Large shifts in late Cenozoic East Asian monsoon circulation deducted from loess-palaeosol sequences in China and sediments in Japan
J.L. Xiao, T.S. Liu and Z.S. An

A review of Quaternary aeolian deposition in central and southeastern Australia
X.Y. Chen

1997; x pages
ISBN 90-6764-260-6
Price: EUR 87/US$ 102