URBAN GEOLOGY

By SOPHIA LEE

CONTENTS CONTENT 1 1 CHAPTER 2: SETTINGS IN URBAN ENVIRONMENTS 1 2 CHAPTER 3: HYPOTHESES AND CONCEPTS 1 3 CHAPTER 4: METHODS 1 4 CHAPTER 5: EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDIES SETTINGS IN URBAN ENVIRONMENTS 2 1 INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT 2 2 USE CON?ICTS IN URBAN AREAS 2 3 LEGAL BACKGROUND 2 4 GENERAL SETTINGS OF THE OUTLINED CASE STUDIES REFERENCES HYPOTHESES AND CONCEPTS 3 1 SYSTEM AND RISK PRO?LES 3 1 1 DE?NITION OF SYSTEM PRO?LES 3 1 2 DE?NITION OF RISK PRO?LES 3 2 FLOW ACROSS BOUNDARIES 3 2 1 RIVER LANDSCAPE DEVELOPMENT 3 2 2 MAJOR INTERFACES 3 3 VULNERABILITY AND QUALITY CONTROL SYSTEMS 3 3 1 VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT METHODS 3 3 2 QUALITY CONTROL SYSTEMS 3 4 CLIMATE CHANGE 3 4 1 CLIMATE CHANGE AND FEEDBACK MECHANISM IN URBAN ENVIRONMENTS 3 4 2 EFFECTS OF PREDICTED CLIMATE CHANGE ON GROUNDWATER VULNERABILITY 3 4 3 GWB ZONES AND FUTURE NEEDS OF OBSERVATION NETWORKS METHODS 4 1 DATA MINING 4 1 1 DATA MINING WITH GEODATA 4 1 2 EVALUATING DATA QUALITY 4 1 3 DATA REQUIREMENT FOR MODELING 4 2 ELEMENTS FOR ADAPTIVE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT 4 2 1 MONITORING 4 2 2 FIELD INVESTIGATIONS AND EXPERIMENTS 4 2 3 MODELING 4 3 HYDROGEOPHYSICS 4 3 1 PROCESS UNDERSTANDING 4 4 AQUIFER HETEROGENEITY 4 4 1 SEDIMENTOLOGICAL CONCEPT FOR THE DESCRIPTION OF AQUIFER HETEROGENEITY 4 5 STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF MONITORING DATA 4 5 1 PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS 4 5 2 ARTI?CIAL NEURAL NETWORKS EXAMPLES AND CASE STUDIES 5 1 GROUNDWATER PROTECTION AND HYDROGEOECOLOGY 5 1 1 CURRENT STATUS OF URBAN RIVER VALLEYS 5 1 2 MAIN CHANGES FROM THE NATURAL TO THE CHANNELIZED STATE OF RIVERS 5 1 3 RECONCILIATION OF WATER ENGINEERING MEASURES ALONG RIVERS 5 1 4 ENDANGERMENT AND HAZARD ASSESSMENT 5 1 5 CASE STUDIES 5 1 6 CONCLUSIONS 5 2 ENGINEERING HYDROGEOLOGY 5 2 1 IMPACTS OF URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT 5 2 2 CONCEPTS FOR URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT 5 2 3 CASE STUDIES 5 2 4 CONCLUSIONS 5 3 CONTAMINATED SITES IN URBAN AREAS 5 3 1 INSTITUTIONAL ASPECTS OF COOPERATION IN A MULTINATIONAL URBAN CONTEXT 5 3 2 CASE STUDIES 5 3 3 CONCLUSIONS 5 4 KARST IN URBAN AREAS 5 4 1 KARST PROCESSES IN URBAN AREAS 5 4 2 CONCEPTS AND INVESTIGATION METHODS 5 4 3 CASE STUDIES 5 4 4 CONCLUSIONS 5 5 GEOTHERMAL ENERGY 5 5 1 GEOTHERMAL SETTINGS AND BOUNDARIES 5 5 2 IMPLEMENTATION OF GEOTHERMAL USE CONCEPTS FOR BOREHOLE HEAT EXCHANGERS 5 5 3 APPLICATION OF MONITORING AND MODELING METHODS 5 5 4 CONCLUSIONS 5 6 NATURAL HAZARDS IN URBAN AREAS 5 6 1 EARTHQUAKES IN URBAN AREAS 5 6 2 FLOOD EVENTS IN ALLUVIAL VALLEYS 5 6 3 CONCLUSIONS