It involves scientific understanding and sociological understanding. We will deal mostly with the scientific aspects in this course but discuss the social aspects, because as we will see, they are crucial to any answer. Let's start with a definition of Environmental Geology. The goal is to understand these processes and then minimize damage to structures and humans 2. Land use planning.
Environmental impact analyses.
The opposite of land use planning is analyses to keep human development from changing natural processes in ways that deleteriously affect humans and other biota in the environment. Developing natural resource. And this does not include soil movement from farming, which is huge. Humans are now more effective at moving amterial at the earth's surface than all geologic processes combined. This is a sobering the telling statistic of the power of numbers and technology.