Advances in Geosciences & the Built Environment

The collection of topics in this book aims to reflect the diversity of recent advances in geosciences and built environment with a broad perspective which may be useful for scientists as well as for graduate students and engineers. This book presents leading-edge research from around the world in this dynamic field which is relevant and valuable to the whole the geoscience and built environment community and serve to both define and advance state of geocomputing. Diverse topics on geosciences and built environment published in this book are the original works of some of the brightest and well-known scientists from: University of Sheffield (UK), University of Aberdeen (UK) , Heriot-Watt University (UK), University of Padua (Italy), Manchester Metropolitan University (UK), University of Guilan (Iran), University of Bradford (UK), Northwest Hydraulic Consultants Inc., West Sacramento, California (USA), University of Glasgow(UK).