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Front Matter
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About this book
This open access volume collects emerging issues in Environmental and Civil Engineering, originating from outstanding doctoral dissertations discussed at Politecnico di Milano in 2021. The advanced innovative insights provided are presented with reference to the relevant sustainable development goals (SDGs), hoping that scientists, technicians and decision makers will find them as a valid support to face future sustainability challenges.
Indeed, the fast evolution of our society often falls short in properly taking into consideration its relationship with the environment, which is not only the primary source of any resource and the sink of all the wastes we generate throughout our activities, but also the cause of most of the loading and constraints applied to structures and infrastructures. The lack of a proper consideration of the relationship between the needs of both the society and the environment may lead to strong disequilibria, generating a large amount of threats for arobust, resilient and continuous development. In this perspective, the SDGs set by the United Nations represent the criteria to revise our development model, towards the ability to conjugate different needs to build a safe relation between anthropic activities and the environment. Civil and Environmental Engineering plays a relevant role in providing methods, approaches, risk and impact assessments, as well as technologies, to fulfil the SDGs. Research in these fields may in fact provide technical knowledge and tools to support decision makers and technicians in: (i) planning mitigation and adaptation actions to climate change, extreme weather, earthquakes, drought, flooding and other natural disasters; (ii) designing efficient and sustainable strategies for resources exploitation, minimizing the impact and the unequal distributions; (iii) increasing the safety of structures and infrastructures under exceptional loadings and against the deterioration due to their lifecycle; (iv) adopting a holistic risk management approach and appropriate technologies to reduce pollution and environment deterioration, which increase vulnerability; (v) providing a safe drinking water and sanitation system to protect human health.Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Gabriele Della Vecchia is professor at Politecnico di Milano, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Italy. His research activity is mostly addressed to the theoretical and numerical modelling of chemo-hydromechanical processes in geomaterials, including clays, cement-bentonite mixtures and brittle rocks.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Civil and Environmental Engineering for the Sustainable Development Goals
Book Subtitle: Emerging Issues
Editors: Manuela Antonelli, Gabriele Della Vecchia
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99593-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-99592-8Published: 15 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-99593-5Published: 14 May 2022
Series ISSN: 2191-530X
Series E-ISSN: 2191-5318
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 108
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 46 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environment, general, Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences, Sustainable Development