TY - JOUR
T1 - Soil and water bioengineering: practice and research needs for reconciling natural hazard control and ecological restoration
AU - Rey, Freddy
AU - Bifulco, Carlo
AU - Bischetti, Gian Batista
AU - Bourrier, Frank
AU - De Cesare, Giovanni
AU - Florineth, Florin
AU - Graf, Frank
AU - Marden, Mike
AU - Mickovski, Slobodan B.
AU - Pillips, Chris
AU - Peklo, Klaus
AU - Poesen, Jean
AU - Polster, David
AU - Preti, Federico
AU - Rauch, Hans Peter
AU - Raymond, Pierre
AU - Sangalli, Paola
AU - Tardio, Guillermo
AU - Stokes, Alexia
N1 - Acceptance in SAN (also attached above)
AAM: 12m embargo
PY - 2019/1
Y1 - 2019/1
N2 - Soil and water bioengineering is a technology that encourages scientists and practitioners to combine their knowledge and skills in the management of ecosystems with a common goal to maximize benefits to both man and the natural environment. It involves techniques that use plants as living building materials, for: (i) natural hazard control (e.g., soil erosion, torrential floods and landslides) and (ii) ecological restoration or nature-based re-introduction of species on degraded lands, river embankments, and disturbed environments. For a bioengineering project to be successful, engineers are required to highlight all the potential benefits and ecosystem services by documenting the technical, ecological, economic and social values. The novel approaches used by bioengineers raise questions for researchers and necessitate innovation from practitioners to design bioengineering concepts and techniques. Our objective in this paper, therefore, is to highlight the practice and research needs in soil and water bioengineering for reconciling natural hazard control and ecological restoration. Firstly, we review the definition and development of bioengineering technology, while stressing issues concerning the design, implementation, and monitoring of bioengineering actions. Secondly, we highlight the need to reconcile natural hazard control and ecological restoration by posing novel practice and research questions.
AB - Soil and water bioengineering is a technology that encourages scientists and practitioners to combine their knowledge and skills in the management of ecosystems with a common goal to maximize benefits to both man and the natural environment. It involves techniques that use plants as living building materials, for: (i) natural hazard control (e.g., soil erosion, torrential floods and landslides) and (ii) ecological restoration or nature-based re-introduction of species on degraded lands, river embankments, and disturbed environments. For a bioengineering project to be successful, engineers are required to highlight all the potential benefits and ecosystem services by documenting the technical, ecological, economic and social values. The novel approaches used by bioengineers raise questions for researchers and necessitate innovation from practitioners to design bioengineering concepts and techniques. Our objective in this paper, therefore, is to highlight the practice and research needs in soil and water bioengineering for reconciling natural hazard control and ecological restoration. Firstly, we review the definition and development of bioengineering technology, while stressing issues concerning the design, implementation, and monitoring of bioengineering actions. Secondly, we highlight the need to reconcile natural hazard control and ecological restoration by posing novel practice and research questions.
KW - eco-engineering
KW - natural disasters
KW - soil bioengineering
KW - geotechnical engineering; transportation; building information modelling; earthworks; buried services
U2 - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.08.217
DO - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.08.217
M3 - Article
VL - 648
SP - 1210
EP - 1218
JO - Science of the Total Environment
JF - Science of the Total Environment
SN - 0048-9697
ER -