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Geoscience for the Public Good and Global Development: Toward a Sustainable Future

Abundant evidence of the importance of geology to sustainable global development can be found in the literature, and one good example is a 2016 Special Paper from the Geological Society of America. In this volume, papers from all over the world describe the importance of geology and geological engineering to human development, and also illustrate the difficulties people face when poverty and associated deficits hamper efforts to deal with dwindling water supplies, exhausted mineral and energy resources, and widespread pollution and contamination.