Overview
- Multi-disciplinary approaches including hydrogeological, environmental, (bio)technological and management aspects of shared groundwater resources integrating social, economic and political dimensions as well as legal and educational perspectives
- Comprehensive study of shared groundwater resources
- Latest issues on transboundary water resources and conflicts
Part of the book series: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security (NAPSC)
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Table of contents (21 papers)
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Front Matter
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Depletion and Contamination of Shared Groundwater Resources: An Overview
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Techniques to Assess the Depletion and Contamination of Shared Groundwater Resources
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Tools to Predict/Forecast the Future Depletion and Contamination of Shared Groundwater Resources
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Sustainable Measures to Palliate the Overexploitation of Groundwater and Decontaminate Aquifers
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Approaches to Shared Groundwater Resources Management: Conflict Prevention and Resolution
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About this book
Forty percent of the world’s population depends upon increasingly scarce and shared water resources. This situation is critical at both international and national levels not only for socio-economic development, but also for the regional stability. The intensive use of groundwater for irrigation and water supply is adding pressures to scarce water resources and the environment through overexploitation and contamination which result in situations that may lead to conflicts. The book from the NATO ASI on “Overexploitation and Contamination of Shared Groundwater Resources Management, (Bio)technological, and Political Approaches to Avoid Conflicts” is written by authors from different disciplines and regions of the world. The aim of the book is to contribute to the knowledge of shared groundwater resources management to avoid conflicts by considering multi-disciplinary approaches based on effective and equitable water sharing for all water users through cooperation and within a compassionate ecological framework along with the need for sustainable resources development and the quest for environmental and human security. The scope of the book covers the hydrogeological, environmental, (bio)technological and management aspects of shared groundwater resources integrating social, economic and political dimensions as well as legal and educational perspectives.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Overexploitation and Contamination of Shared Groundwater Resources
Book Subtitle: Management, (Bio)Technological, and Political Approaches to Avoid Conflicts
Editors: Christophe J. G. Darnault
Series Title: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6985-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-6983-3Published: 31 January 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-6984-0Published: 29 January 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-6985-7Published: 02 February 2008
Series ISSN: 1874-6519
Series E-ISSN: 1874-6543
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 453
Topics: Environmental Management, Environment, general, Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management, Earth Sciences, general