Implications of pyrite oxidation for engineering works / / edited by A. Brian Hawkins

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910298375903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Springer, 2013
• ISBN: 3-319-00221-X
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2014.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (311 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): HawkinsA. Brian
• Disciplina: 620.11299
• Soggetti: Pyrites; Engineering
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Engineering Implications of the Oxidation of Pyrite: an overview, with particular reference to Ireland -- Sampling Potentially Pyritiferous Materials -- Testing of Potentially Pyritiferous Material -- Problems Associated with the Use of Pyritiferous Fill at Ballymun Youth Facility, Dublin -- Remediation of Senior Citizens’ Dwellings affected by Pyrite-Induced Heave -- The Effect of Pyrite-Related Heave: A Structural Engineer’s Perspective -- The Canadian Pyrite Experience and Comparisons with the Irish Problems -- Pyrite Oxidation and Structural Problems in the Chattanooga (Ohio) Shale, East Central Kentucky -- Iron Sulphides and Surface Heating: Further Engineering Considerations for the Dublin area.
• Sommario/riassunto: The book highlights and analyses the distress to buildings caused by sulphate-induced heave, with particular reference to the recent problems in the Dublin area of Ireland. It describes the formation of pyrite, the processes involved in its oxidation and the various ways in which consequential expansion takes place. For the first time in the literature it discusses the way that buildings can be raised above their supporting foundation walls by the expansion of pyritiferous fill which has been used beneath ground-bearing floor slabs in Ireland. The significance of fractures through the iron sulphide microcrystals for the rate and extent of oxidation is discussed. Photographs and profiles of sulphate ingress into concrete/concrete blocks are presented. Case histories from the UK, North America and Ireland are discussed.

Family Urban Agriculture in Russia : Lessons and Prospects / / by Louiza M. Boukharaeva, Marcel Marloie

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910298273603321
• Autore: Boukharaeva Louiza M
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015
• ISBN: 3-319-11614-2
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2015.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (227 p.)
• Collana: Urban Agriculture, , 2197-1730
• Disciplina: 630.91732
• Soggetti: Agriculture; Urban ecology (Biology); Sustainable development; Regional planning; City planning; Social policy; Urban Ecology; Sustainable Development; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Social Policy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Notice -- Preamble: Heal the World -- Chapter I. Introduction -- Chapter II. The palimpsest of urban gardening in Russia -- Chapter III. A new civil right won under the Soviet regime -- Chapter IV. A post-Soviet phenomenon -- Chapter V. The Russian Urban Grower: representations and practices -- Chapter VI. In favour of a new perspective -- Chapter VII. A continental rhizome: gardening policies and visions of society -- Chapter VIII. Western and Southern Europe viewed from a Russian perspective -- Chapter IX. Universal meaning -- Annexes -- Annex 1. The capitals: Moscou, Saint-Pétersbourg, Kazan -- Annex 2. The collective gardens "War Veterans" -- Annex 3. The collective gardens "No. 7 of the Aircraft Engine Manufacturing Company/KMPO Kazan": massif Soukhaya rieka -- Annex 4. The collective gardens "Victoria Island" -- List of boxes, diagrams, ; documents, maps, photography’s, tables -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- General Summary.
• Sommario/riassunto: A significant phenomenon that affects nearly two-thirds of Russian city-dwellers, family urban agriculture – with its allotment gardens, allotment vegetable gardens, and dacha allotments – grew out of a unique history and cultural representations. The contemporary Urban Grower in Russia holds a legacy of the famines and traumatisms of the Second World War, which prompted Soviet authorities to encourage the development of allotments and gardening education, which they had previously opposed. The school system gave Urban Growers a literary education that connects working the soils and working plants with beauty, the good life, and culture. Urban Growers have won the right to build a small house on their garden plots to make a place for holidays that enlarge their living space. The allotment gardens of Russia are the most developed sign of a rhizome that extends over the neighbouring countries of Asia and a large portion of Europe. Its history and current forms are different from the allotments of Western Europe. But some similarities are identifiable. The similarities observed suggest a possible common future, insofar as the Russian experience conveys universal teachings. It opens the way for thinking of an alternative to the single-family house that is accused of polluting and destroying the soil. It shows the possibility of reorganising the use of urban and periurban soils to increase the resilience to crises in terms of food security and resistance to emotional and psychological stress. It questions the representations of the international community on integral human habitat by showing how people need immediate, direct, and active contact with nature. This experience offers many useful references for resolving common problems of the major cities in the world: food security, poverty, violence, environmental issues, and housing crises. Interrupted for almost a century, a new international scientific dialogue including the Urban Grower of Russia can become established on these subjects, which are decisive for the future of a definitively urban world.