Hydrogeological Instability in Cohesive Soils Techniques for Predict
This book discusses techniques for predicting, preventing and controlling the hydrogeological instability of slopes consisting of cohesive soils. The proposed methodology is practical and innovative, and assumes a dynamic valence in defining the deformati
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Hydrogeological Instability in Cohesive Soils Techniques for Prediction, Prevention and Control
Hydrogeological Instability in Cohesive Soils
Luigi Coppola
Hydrogeological Instability in Cohesive Soils Techniques for Prediction, Prevention and Control Linguistic Review by Dante Valerio Tedesco
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Luigi Coppola University of Basilicata Potenza Italy
ISBN 978-3-319-74330-1 ISBN 978-3-319-74331-8 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74331-8
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Preface
The natural environment is a perfect body, ruled by chemical–physical laws highly appropriate to the overall functionality of planet Earth. In such an environment, hydrogeological instability has its own function which is not always perceived as necessary and inescapable within the evolutive cycle of nature by anthropic communities. It is realised about the existence of landslides only during the mournful hydrogeological disasters so frequent along the orogenic ranges subjected to occasional and/or persistent rainfalls. Can we, as a consequence, attribute to hydrogeological disasters the simple function of accidentality or fortuity? The processes or events which actually give life to inorganic matter are not casual neither even less accidental. It is particularly ingenuous thinking that a natural phenomenon like landslides, so much complex and at the same time so much repetitive, can exist due to simple fortuity. There is no place in nature for t
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