Bio-Engineering is the use of living vegetation, either alone or in conjunction with civil engineering structures and non-living plant material, to reduce shallow-seated instability and erosion.
<u>Explanation:</u>
DEVELOPMENT OF BIO-ENGINEERING:
In Germany and Austria wishes to use the low-cost local materials and traditional constructions due to their Financial restrictions of pre-war years 1930's
ADVANTAGES OF BIO-ENGINEERING:
Re-establishing vegetation and store the hydrology from the surface to control of accelerated erosion.
Cost-effective treatments:
- landslides
- Roadside failures
- River stream banks
- mining reclamation.
EXAMPLE:
GRASS PLANTING
Usually planting the large grass clumps in lines across the slope.
Horizontal lines are used to increase the protection against erosion.
