Intensive Use of Groundwater:
Challenges and Opportunities
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 2002
Book
Hardback
490 pages
978-90-5809-390-5 (ISBN)
Description
This text is written by a number of authors from different countries and disciplines, affording the reader an invaluable and unbiased perspective on the subject of intensive groundwater development. Based on information gathered from the experience of many countries over the last decades, the text aims to present a clear discussion on the conventional hydrogeological aspects of intensive groundwater use, along with the ecological, legal, institutional, economic and social challenges. Divided into two main sections, the first group of authors put forward the positive and negative aspects of intensive groundwater use, whilst a second group provide an overview of the situation specific countries face as a consequence of this phenomenon. Fully revised and up-to-date, Groundwater Intensive Use makes a significant number of discoveries in a subject area that is topical in today's climate.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Rotterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Professional
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 174 mm
Weight
1070 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-5809-390-5 (9789058093905)
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Persons
M. Ramon Llamas, Marcelino Botin Foundation (FMB), Madrid, Spain and Complutense University (UCM), Madrid, Spain. E. Custodio, Geological Survey of Spain (IGME), Madrid, Spain and Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, Spain.
Content
SECTION 1 - GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS Intensive use of groundwater: introductory considerations CHAPTER 1. Intensive use of groundwater: a new situation which demands proactive action SECTION 2 - TECHNICAL ISSUES CHAPTER 2. Intensive groundwater use in urban areas: the case of megacities CHAPTER 3. Groundwater for irrigation: productivity gains and the need to manage hydro-environmental risk CHAPTER 4. Environmental implications of intensive groundwater use with special regard to streams and wetlands CHAPTER 5. The impact of aquifer intensive use on groundwater quality CHAPTER 6. Intensive groundwater development in coastal zones and small islands CHAPTER 7. Conjunctive use as potential solution for stressed aquifers: social constraints CHAPTER 8. Drought as a catalyser of intensive groundwater use CHAPTER 9. Should intensive use of non-renewable groundwater resources always be rejected? SECTION 3 - SOCIO-ECONOMIC ISSUES CHAPTER 10. Economic and financial perspectives on intensive groundwater use CHAPTER 11. How groundwater ownership and rights influence groundwater intensive use management CHAPTER 12. Rules rather than rights: self-regulation in intensively used groundwater systems CHAPTER 13. Groundwater collective management systems: the United States experience CHAPTER 14. Public and stakeholder education to improve groundwater management SECTION 4 - REGIONAL AND NATIONAL ISSUES CHAPTER 15. Intensive use of groundwater in North America CHAPTER 16. Socio-ecology of groundwater irrigation in India CHAPTER 17. Intensive use of groundwater in some areas of China and Japan CHAPTER 18. Intensive groundwater use in the Middle East and North Africa CHAPTER 19. Intensive groundwater use in Spain CHAPTER 20. Intensive use of groundwater in transboundary aquifers SECTION 5 - COMMON ISSUES AND THE WAY FORWARD CHAPTER 21. Groundwater and poverty: exploring the connections CHAPTER 22. Main common concepts, relevant facts, and some suggestions.