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Table of Contents - Reviews in Engineering Geology (REG012)A Paradox of Power: Voices of Warning and Reason in the Geosciences |
Preface Introduction Acknowledgments The dilemma of the geologist: Earth resources and environmental policy Resolving environmental complexity: A geologic appraisal of process-response elements and scale as controls of shoreline erosion along southeastern Lake Ontario, New York Colonial impacts to wetlands in Lebanon, Connecticut Presentation of radon potential maps to the public: A case history for Portland, Oregon An outbreak of coccidioidomycosis (valley fever) caused by landslides triggered by the 1994 Northridge, California, earthquake Sewage sludge (biosolids) land disposal in a southeastern U.S. Piedmont setting: Ground-water pollution potential Seismic microzonation in the Pacific Northwest, with an example of earthquake hazard mapping in southwest British Columbia Asbestos monitoring and regulation in public drinking-water supplies: A case history from North Carolina Evaluating debris-flow hazards in Davis County, Utah: Engineering versus geological approaches Preliminary assessment of the seismicity of the Malibu Coast Fault Zone, southern California, and related issues of philosophy and practice Glacial geology, law, and the Love Canal trial Expectations of geological science: Yucca Mountain site characterization, Nevada Providing valid long-term projections of geologic systems for policy decisions: Can we succeed? Should we try? Afterword |