Global CO2 Emission-Related Geotechnical Engineering Hazards and the Mission for Sustainable Geotechnical Engineering
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School of Engineering and Information Technology (SEIT), University of New South Wales (UNSW), Canberra, ACT 2600, Australia
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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon 34141, Korea
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Energies 2019, 12(13), 2567; https://doi.org/10.3390/en12132567
Received: 10 June 2019
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Revised: 27 June 2019
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Accepted: 28 June 2019
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Published: 3 July 2019
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geomechanics for Energy and a Sustainable Environment)
Global warming and climate change caused by greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have rapidly increased the occurrence of abnormal climate events, and both the scale and frequency of geotechnical engineering hazards (GEHs) accordingly. In response, geotechnical engineers have a responsibility to provide countermeasures to mitigate GEHs through various ground improvement techniques. Thus, this study provides a comprehensive review of the possible correlation between GHG emissions and GEHs using statistical data, a review of ground improvement methods that have been studied to reduce the carbon footprint of geotechnical engineering, and a discussion of the direction in which geotechnical engineering should proceed in the future.
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Keywords:
global warming; climate change; greenhouse gas; carbon dioxide; extreme precipitation; disaster; geotechnical engineering hazard; ground improvement; soil stabilization
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Chang, I.; Lee, M.; Cho, G.-C. Global CO2 Emission-Related Geotechnical Engineering Hazards and the Mission for Sustainable Geotechnical Engineering. Energies 2019, 12, 2567. https://doi.org/10.3390/en12132567
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Chang I, Lee M, Cho G-C. Global CO2 Emission-Related Geotechnical Engineering Hazards and the Mission for Sustainable Geotechnical Engineering. Energies. 2019; 12(13):2567. https://doi.org/10.3390/en12132567
Chicago/Turabian StyleChang, Ilhan, Minhyeong Lee, and Gye-Chun Cho. 2019. "Global CO2 Emission-Related Geotechnical Engineering Hazards and the Mission for Sustainable Geotechnical Engineering" Energies 12, no. 13: 2567. https://doi.org/10.3390/en12132567
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