Climate Adaptive Sustainable Solutions in Geotechnical and Geo-Environmental Engineering
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainability in Geographic Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 September 2023) | Viewed by 2591
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Interests: transportation geotechnics; climate adaptive infrastructures; sustainable and green techniques; effect of climate change on the geo-infrastructure
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Dear Colleagues,
Climate change and extreme events are causing significant challenges to geo-infrastructure, especially in geotechnical and geo-environmental terms. For example, due to climate change and global warming, temperature, precipitation, soil moisture, and hydrologic cycles are changing, which affect the behavior of geotechnical and geo-environmental systems, especially in partially saturated environments. Moreover, climate change is causes heavy rainfall, along with other extreme events, which can cause floods. However, many of the effects of climate change on the geotechnical and geo-environmental world is not known.
The current Special Issue aims to document the effect of Global warming and climate change on geotechnical and geo-environmental systems, as well as to develop sustainable solutions to these effects.
Any basic work related to investigations of climate stressors, such as excessive rainfall, change in temperature, drought, or other climatic factors, such as humidity on the fundamental behavior of soil and the environment are highly encouraged. Advanced investigations and monitoring, which covers both laboratory- and field-based techniques, of instrumentation and remote sensing would be ideal. This Special Issue also targets to include multiple case studies on sustainable and green techniques in mitigating climate change measures in geotechnical and geo-environmental engineering practice.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Effect of climate stressors on the sustainability of geotechnical and geo-environmental s
- Damage in Geotechnical and geo-environmental systems due to extreme e
- Development of green and sustainable geotechnical and geo-environmental solutions for mitigating climate change.
- Development of energy efficient design and practice for sustainable geotechnical engineering p
- Implementation and monitoring of policies for the sustainable development of geo–infrastructure systems.
- Impact of safety, security, and disaster management on sustainability in climate change adaptation for geo-environmental systems.
- Systems analysis methods, including life cycle assessment and management of geo–infrastructure systems.
I look forward to receiving your contribution.
Dr. Sadik Khan
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- effect of excessive rainfall and temperature on geotechnical/geo-environmental systems
- sustainable and climate adaptive geo-infrastructure design
- use of recycled aggregates
- advanced investigation and monitoring technique in geotechnical systems
- risk assessment of the foundations, slopes, embankment and levees under extreme events
- damage caused by flooding on the roads, pavements and slopes
- nature based solution in geotechnical and geo-environmental system
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