Geology of Reno and Truckee Meadows, Nevada, United States of America

Gates, William C. B.; Watters, Robert J.

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“…The cities discussed include Albuquerque, USA (Clary et al 1984), Boston, USA (Woodhouse et al 1991), Boulder, USA (Bilodeau et al 1987), Cairo, Egypt (Shata 1988), Christchurch New Zealand (Brown et al 1995), Dallas, USA (Allen & Flanigan 1986), Denver, USA (Costa & Bilodeau 1982), Hong Kong, China (McFeat-Smith et al 1989), Indianapolis, USA (West & Warder 1983), Johannesburg, South Africa (De Beer 1986), Kansas City, USA (Hasan et al 1988), Las Vegas, USA (Wyman et al 1993), Lima, Peru (Karakouzian et al 1997), Long Beach, USA (Randell et al 1983), Los Angeles, USA (Bilodeau et al 2007), Monteal, Canada (Boyer et al 1985), Port Elizabeth, South Africa (Carter 1987), Reno and Truckee Meadows, USA (Gates & Watters 1992), Rome, Italy (Thomas 1989), Salt Lake City, USA (Gwynn et al1990), Seattle, USA (Lund et al 1991). While the papers were published in the journal 'Environmental and Engineering Geoscience' and its predecessor, the Bulletin of the Association of Engineering Geologists, they were brought together on a CD-ROM published by the AEG (Anon.…”

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The 2010 Hans Cloos lecture

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Bull Eng Geol Environ

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Urban geology began to develop in the 1950s, particularly in California in relation to landuse planning, and led to Robert Legget publishing his seminal book "Cities and geology" in 1973. Urban geology has now become an important part of engineering geology. Research and practice has seen the evolution from single theme spatial datasets to multi-theme and multi-dimensional outputs for a wide range of users. In parallel to the development of these new outputs to aid urban development, regeneration and conservation, has been the growing recognition that city authorities need access to extensive databases of geoinformation that are maintained in the long-term and renewed regularly. A further key advance has been the recognition that, in the urban environment, knowledge and understanding of the geology need to be integrated with those of other environmental topics (for example, biodiversity) and, increasingly, with the research of social scientists, economists and others.Despite these advances, it is suggested that the value of urban geology is not fully recognised by those charged with the management and improvement of the world's cities. This may be because engineering geologists have failed to adequately demonstrate the benefits of urban geological applications in terms of cost and environmental improvement, have not communicated these benefits well enough and have not clearly shown the longterm contribution of geo-information to urban sustainability. Within this context future actions to improve the situation are proposed.

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