Transforming The Relationships Between Geoscientists and Urban Decision-Makers: European Cost Sub-Urban Action (TU1206)

With the rapid rate of population growth and economic development, cities face enormous challenges that require both optimal and integrated solutions to meet the needs of growth and to protect the environment and sustainable development. These urban dynamics, which change over time, extend not only horizontally and upward, but also downward. Thus, underground space has been utilized increasingly to relieve the urban surface and to ensure the exploitation of underground resources. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the possibilities of using this space in Casablanca as part of urban land-use planning and, consequently, to suggest an integrated model of exploitation of this space that is adapted to the specificities of the study area. Thus, an analysis of the use of underground spaces in a set of European cities has been performed. The study of the characteristics of this space in Casablanca has been realized according to the levels of geology and hydrogeology and two underground infrastructure projects. This work has led to the implementation of a prototype model named “Sub-Urban Information Modeling”. The model’s objective is to gather all the data and knowledge related to the relevant underground space in an integrated platform that can be shared and updated in order to facilitate the understanding of this environment and its interaction with the surface and to ensure the rational and efficient use of its resources.

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“…The development of this strategic local planning framework reflects the growing need for proactive approaches to land management [21].…”

Section: Integration Of Underground Space In Glasgow's Urban Planningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Underground Space Utilization in the Urban Land-Use Planning of Casablanca (Morocco)

Zerhouny

Fadil

Hakdaoui

2018

Land

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“…The experience gained from the CUSP project in Glasgow has been shared through a European Union COST Action called SUB-URBAN (TU1206). SUB-URBAN has established 'A European Network to Improve Understanding and Use of the Ground Beneath our Cities' (Campbell et al 2017;Gogu et al 2017;Mielby et al 2017). Key issues addressed by the SUB-URBAN partners (in >30 countries and cities) are similar to those in Glasgow, and include:…”

Section: The Clyde-urban Super-project (Cusp)mentioning

confidence: 99%

The Geoscience Context for Europe's Urban Sustainability – Lessons from Glasgow and Beyond (CUSP): preface

Fordyce¹,

Campbell²

2017

Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Socie

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“…One useful tool for effectively communicating geological information is the visual representation of data using three-dimensional (3D) modeling (Campbell et al, 2017;Terrington et al, 2008) . Three-dimensional structural geological models are geometric representations of our (limited) knowledge of relevant subsurface geological features and structures (De La Varga et al, 2019; Wellmann & Caumon, 2018) , and are useful both for specialists and non-specialists alike: to the former, it can help in the assessment of existing data and major structural features, which in turn supports future data-gathering campaigns and conceptual model development and improvement (Scott et al, 2019) , as well as serve as a basis for subsequent hydrogeological modeling and simulations; to the latter, it can help to visualize geoscienti c information and understand its conceptual basis (Terrington et al, 2008) .…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Developing an initial 3D hydrostratigraphical model of the emerged part of the Pelotas Basin along the northern coast of Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil

Marquetto,

Jüstel,

Troian

et al. 2023

Preprint

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The coastal plain of Rio Grande do Sul state is highly vulnerable to expected changes in sea level, while having an increasing population and consequently increasing water demands. Adequate management is essential to restrain contamination, depletion and salinization of the region’s aquifers considering current and future challenges, but geologic knowledge is essential to guide groundwater sustainable practices. To contribute to this discussion this work integrated existing geological data from the northern coast of Rio Grande do Sul state to create a three dimensional representation of the main hydrostratigraphical units of the region and its relation to the basement rocks, expanding the current knowledge of the coastal aquifer system. A review of existing data was carried out, consisting of 307 borehole logs from 13 municipalities inside the area of interest, as well as 19 vertical electrical soundings and 37 logs from oil and coal exploratory drillings, that resulted in 315 input points for the model. This work builds up on the conceptual model previously developed for the area, that defined four hydrostratigraphical units for the region, and was able to constrain the geometries of the main aquifers (unit 1 and 3) and aquitards (unit 2 and 4) and their relation to the basement rocks, showing them to be more heterogeneous in thicknesses and extent than previously thought. In addition, this work was able to model what could be a fifth hydrostratigraphical unit, that strongly differs from the other four and could be an indication of the alluvial fans previously described in the literature.

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Transforming The Relationships Between Geoscientists and Urban Decision-Makers: European Cost Sub-Urban Action (TU1206)

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Underground Space Utilization in the Urban Land-Use Planning of Casablanca (Morocco)

Underground Space Utilization in the Urban Land-Use Planning of Casablanca (Morocco)

The Geoscience Context for Europe's Urban Sustainability – Lessons from Glasgow and Beyond (CUSP): preface

Developing an initial 3D hydrostratigraphical model of the emerged part of the Pelotas Basin along the northern coast of Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil

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