Download or read book Geo-environmental Issues Facing the Americas written by Emir José Macari and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributing researchers and practitioners from academia, government agencies, and industry provide data and information relating to geoenvironmental issues in developed and developing countries of the western hemisphere. Contributors discuss environmental regulations, site assessment, remediation, and education, as well as landfills and containment systems and the transfer of new technologies. Issues and problems in Latin America, cost effective technologies, and a theoretical framework for simulating sustainable geoenvironmental technologies are reviewed. Thermal treatment of contaminated and neat soil, sedimentation and consolidation of a neutralized red mud, alternative barrier layers for surface covers in dry climates, and bioaugmentation of hydrocarbon-impacted sands are additional topics covered.