With contributions from more than a dozen leading experts present at a seminar in Kyoto, this volume provides a range of international perspectives on geotechnics and earthquake geotechnics. It examines the interplay of soil mechanics and sustainability.

This book is part of a bold, new initiative towards global sustainability and development that draws on the disciplines of geotechnical engineering and earthquake geotechnics. It contains contributions from fifteen of the world's leading experts who met in Kyoto in early 2010 to discuss a range of issues related to the ways geotechnics can help us face the challenges ahead, from the technical to the social, from geo-hazards to megacities, from global warming and coastal protection to the conservation of world heritage sites. We hope these contributions will stimulate the debate over the role geotechnics has to play in achieving a more sustainable future for the world. AudienceThis book will be of interest to advanced levels of researchers and practicing engineers in the fields of geotechnics and earthquake geotechnics for global sustainability: the greatest long term challenge of our time.

Geotechnics/earthquake geotechnics in future International perspectives towards global sustainability by world leading experts Unexpectedly large scale and long range in space and time Thought provoking ideas and stimulating materials for geotechnics/earthquake geotechnics Eye-opener and new opportunity for futuristic thinking geotechnical engineers

Inhalt

Preface.- Prologue: Designing for Sustainability.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Seismic Hazards.- 3 Lifelines in Megacities.- 4 Infrastructure.- 5 Geotechnics and Society.- 6 World Heritage in Asia.- 7 Coastal Protection.- 8 Combined Hazards.- 9 Urban Microzonation.- 10 Slope Failure.- 11 Geo-Hazards.- 12 Exploring Non-gravity Geotechnics.- 13 Soil Mechanics.- Index.