A disaster waiting to happen-On the dynamic relations between geological processes and development in a desert environment

Isaac Meir; Yoav Avni; Aviva Peeters; Shaked Meir

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2013.01.012

A disaster waiting to happen-On the dynamic relations between geological processes and development in a desert environment

Isaac Meir, Yoav Avni, Aviva Peeters, Shaked Meir

The Swiss Institute for Dryland Environmental and Energy Research

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Abstract

The paper reviews the dynamic relations between geology, soil mechanics, planning and construction in a desert environment. It claims that misunderstanding environmental processes, disregarding geological properties and climatic uncertainties, while planning for construction and development, can have decisive outcomes of potentially catastrophic implications, such as destabilizing the very terrain on which a project is built. To make this point, it reviews the evolution of a relatively small settlement located in the arid Negev Desert Highlands, Israel, and the way this has affected the very cliff on which it is built.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	19-29
Number of pages	11
Journal	Landscape and Urban Planning
Volume	113
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2013.01.012
State	Published - 1 Jan 2013

Keywords

Architecture
Climate
Desert
GIS
Soil mechanics
Subsidence

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Ecology
Nature and Landscape Conservation
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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