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Preface
Grant Heiken, Robert Fakundiny, and John Sutter v
Introduction
Grant Heiken 1
Section I. Background—Earth Science in the Cities
Chapter 1. Large Urban ConcentrationsA: New Phenomenon
George Bugliarello 7
Chapter 2. Geoantiquitiesin the Urban Landscape; Earth History Records in the Cities
Marjorie A. Chan, Donald R. Currey, Andrea N. Dion, and Holly S. Godsey 21
Chapter 3. Engineering Geology of New York City: Continuing Value of Geologic Data
Charles A. Baskerville and Robert H. Fakundiny 43
Section II. Natural Hazards and the City
Chapter 4. Towards Integrated Natural Hazard Reduction in Urban Areas
Greg A. Valentine 63
Chapter 5. Seismic-Risk Evaluation in Cities of New York and Surrounding Regions: Issues Related to all Intraplate Cities
Robert H. Fakundiny 75
Chapter 6. Facing Volcanic and Related Hazards in the Neapolitan Area
Giovanni Orsi, Sandro de Vita, Mauro A. Di Vito, Roberto Isaia, Rosella Nave, and Grant Heiken 121
Chapter 7. Tsunami Impact and Mitigation in Inhabited Areas
G. T. Hebenstreit, E I. Gonzdlez, and J. Preuss 171
Chapter 8. Landslides and Cities: An Unwanted Partnership
Richard J. Pike, David G. Howell 187
Section III. Urban Hydrology
Chapter 9. Effects of Urbanization on Groundwater Systems
J. M. Sharp, Jr., J. N. Krothe, J. D. Mather, B. Garcia-Fresca, and C. A. Stewart 257
Chapter 10. Integrated Environmental Modeling of the Urban Ecosystem
Timothy N. McPherson, Steven J. Burian, Michael J. Brown, Gerald E. Streit, and H. J. Turin 279
Chapter 11. Urban Environmental Modeling and Assessment Using Detailed Urban Databases
Steven J. Burian, Timothy N. McPherson, Michael J. Brown, Gerald E. Streit, and H. J. Turin 303
Section IV. The Remotely Sensed City
Chapter 12. Mapping the City Landscape From Space: The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflectance Radiometer (ASTER) Urban Environmental Monitoring Program
Michael S. Ramsey 337
Chapter 13. Airborne Laser Topographic Mapping: Applications to Hurricane Storm Surge Hazards
Dean Whitman, Keqi Zhang, Stephen P Leatherman, and William Robertson 363
Section V. Integrated Earth Sciences and Urban Development and Sustainability
Chapter 14. Integrating Geological Informationin to Urban Planning and Management: Approaches for the 21 st Century
B. R. Marker, J. J. Pereira, and E. E J. de Mulder 379
Chapter 15. Greater Phoenix 2100: Building a National Urban Environmental Research Agenda
Jonathan Fink, Frederick Steiner, Nancy B. Grimm, and Charles L. Redman 413
Chapter 16. Modeling Cities—The Los Alamos Urban Security Initiative Grant Heiken, Greg A . Valentine, Michael Brown, Steen Rasmussen, Jonathan Dowell, Sudha Maheshwari, and Denise C. George 427
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Alfred Dodson
reviewed Earth Science in the City A Reader on February 28, 2016
Earth Science in the City A Reader
I read this book in its entirety for an intellectual property class, and it helped my understanding of the subject greatly. That said, it's not an ideal textbook for a university class for two reasons.
First, it's outdated. The 5th edition was written before the America Invents Act (Patent Reform Act) was signed into law, so it has a lot of outdated info about patents in it. The US is no longer a "first to invent" country, it is a "first to file" for example. The chapters on software patents, business methods, and the internet are all as outdated as a 5-year-old computer. No mention of digital currency, online legal services, or other things a contemporary manager needs to know.
Second, it approaches law developmentally. As an engineer taking a law class, I'm not going to be tested on the history of how the law developed. I will be tested on how to apply the law. I don't need to read outdated, long-winded passages about how the courts finally settled on a way to define what can be patented, I just need to know what can be patented. For the most part, the book puts this applicable information in text boxes throughout, but it could do better.
It would also help if after every case brief, writ, opinion, etc... there was a text box outlining what was important about this particular case, and how it affects case law. It would be an easy way to get info at a glance when referencing. Overall, a good book for its time, but outdated and written more for budding lawyers than engineers who haven't "read" a textbook since high school.
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