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vol. 52, no. 2
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18 Prevention Is the Best Medicine: Doing Site Evaluations to Prevent Geological Hazard Catastrophes
Preventing loss from the failure of structures and resisting the impact of geological processes is of paramount importance to public safety. To help prevent such losses, engineering geologists and geological engineers investigate sites for geological hazards prior to development.
Scott Burns
24 Rolling Across the Roof of the World
In July 2006, the railroad linking China and Tibet opened for business, in what is likely to be one of the greatest geotechnical engineering achievements of the 21st century.
James C. Cobb, Lanmin Wang, Edward W. Woolery, Zhenming Wang, Zhijian Wu
30 Building bridges with icy
challenges
Building a bridge across the Bering Strait might seem fanciful, but the technology to create it is sound — and the bridge has some practical applications, such as transporting natural resources from Russia to North America.
Kathryn Hansen
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& VIEWS 7 COMMENT Science, Catastrophe Risk Models and Insurance Geoscientific research is quite important in the insurance industry’s catastrophe risk models, and is growing ever more important as the climate changes. Richard J. Murnane 8 NEWS NOTES
36 GEOPHENOMENA
38 TRENDS & INNOVATIONS
46 GEOMEDIA 50 PROFILES
51 BENCHMARKS
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4 From the Editor 6 Letters: Perspectives from readers 34 Where on Earth? 52 GeoMarketplace 53 Classifieds: Career opportunities Want to attend a geoscience meeting?
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