Format:
1 online resource (756 pages)
ISBN:
9783319235769
Content:
Intro -- Foreword -- Contents -- Part I: Integration Overview and Problem Settings -- 1: Integrated Groundwater Management: An Overview of Concepts and Challenges -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Integrated Groundwater Management -- 1.2.1 Issues of Concern -- 1.2.2 Governance -- 1.2.3 Stakeholders -- 1.2.4 Human Setting -- 1.2.5 Natural Setting -- 1.2.6 Spatial Scales -- 1.2.7 Time Scales -- 1.2.8 Disciplines -- 1.2.9 Methods, Models, Other Tools and Data -- 1.2.10 Uncertainty -- 1.3 Integrated Assessment, Modelling, and Other IGM Tools -- 1.4 Book Overview and Key Messages -- 1.4.1 Part I: Integration Overview and Problem Settings -- 1.4.2 Part II: Governance -- 1.4.3 Part III: Biophysical Aspects -- 1.4.4 Part IV: Socioeconomics -- 1.4.5 Part V: Modelling and Decision Support -- References -- 2: The International Scale of the Groundwater Issue -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The Concept of Groundwater Depletion -- 2.3 Groundwater Depletion Globally -- 2.3.1 Global Estimates of Groundwater Extraction -- 2.3.2 Global Depletion Examples -- 2.3.2.1 High Plains Aquifer, United States -- 2.3.2.2 Northwestern India -- 2.3.2.3 Northeastern China -- 2.3.2.4 Middle East and North Africa (MENA) -- 2.3.2.5 Australia -- 2.3.2.6 Techniques for Assessing Groundwater Depletion -- 2.4 Contamination of Groundwater -- 2.4.1 Land and Aquifer Salinization -- 2.4.1.1 Land Salinization -- 2.4.1.2 Aquifer Salinization -- 2.4.2 Groundwater Contamination Due to Chemicals -- 2.4.3 Groundwater Contamination Due to Microorganisms -- 2.5 The Water-Energy Nexus -- 2.6 Transboundary Water Conflict -- 2.7 Conclusion -- References -- 3: Disentangling the Complexity of Groundwater Dependent Social-ecological Systems -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Groundwater: An Interaction Space of Several Interdependent Dynamics -- 3.2.1 Crau Aquifer: A Water Circular Economy -- 3.2.2 The Gnangara Mound.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783319235752
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783319235752
Language:
English
Keywords:
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