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Geo-Resources and Geo-Hazards<br />

Land use conflicts intensify in areas aro<strong>und</strong> growing cities where space becomes<br />

increasingly valuable. To favour a sustainable land-use decision making, the<br />

significance of geo-resources (e.g. gro<strong>und</strong>water, sand and gravel, soils) or geohazards<br />

(sinkholes due to subrosion, heavy metals in rocks and soils) must be duly<br />

considered, since geo-resources and geo-hazards are related to geological<br />

structures and are therefore immovable. However, geological structures are usually<br />

very complex in shape which makes them hard to <strong>und</strong>erstand for non-experts. A key<br />

to their integration to decision processes is a comprehensible and transparent 3D<br />

visualisation of the subsurface serving as a base for further two-dimensional thematic<br />

maps which can be integrated in a GIS-based evaluation framework. Within this<br />

framework, other information from economy, ecology or sociology can also be<br />

integrated and evaluated together with geological data using a spatial decision<br />

support system with multi-criteria techniques.<br />

Staff Members<br />

Head Prof. Dr. Andreas Hoppe<br />

Research Associates Dr. Oswald Marinoni<br />

Dipl.-Geoökol. Monika Hofmann<br />

Dipl.-Geol. Stefan Lang<br />

Technical Personnel Dipl.-Kartogr. (FH) Ulrike Simons<br />

Holger Scheibner<br />

Secretaries Kirsten Herrmann<br />

Monika Schweikhard<br />

PhD Students Lic. geogr. Teresa Lamelas Gracia<br />

Students Andreas Deckelmann<br />

Christian Tigler<br />

Research Projects<br />

A focus was set on evaluating and developing methods to support the sustainable<br />

use of geo-resources in and aro<strong>und</strong> metropolitan areas. Our methods include the<br />

enhanced implementation of outranking methods which still face computational limits<br />

and have been refined by Oswald Marinoni (who left in autumn for CSIRO in<br />

Brisbane, Australia), as well as existing methods which have been evaluated in<br />

different case studies and presented during international meetings in Barcelona,<br />

Bruges, Freiberg and Vienna (EGU and Karst Congress). The discussion within the<br />

interdisciplinary “Forschungsschwerpunkt Stadtforschung” (Urban Sciences) at<br />

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