Overview
- Up to date very wide-ranging summary of an area - groundwater - which is often neglected in urban planning
- Rapidly expanding subject area - urban sustainability
- Covers all main areas of urban groundwater, including socio-economic issues, in a wide range of geological, climatic, and cultural contexts
- Includes much information on urban hydrogeological systems which have rarely been described before in the English literature
Part of the book series: NATO Science Series: IV: (NAIV, volume 74)
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Given that around 50% of the world’s population live in cities, and that urban populations are expanding rapidly, the issues are important and becoming increasingly urgent. To reduce the effects of such impacts, management is required irrespective of whether the groundwater is to be used or not. This management must be based on a sound technical understanding of the interacting processes involved. The forty papers in this volume explore the state of this understanding in the context of a wide range of countries (and therefore cultures), climates, and geologies. They are divided into topic areas covering flow, chemical water quality, biological water quality, remediation, engineering, and socio-economics. An initial section sets the scene with a range of integrated regional-scale studies. The volume provides an insight into groundwater issues for other urban specialists, including planners: without communication between the disciplines involved, progress towards acceptable urban sustainability will be slow.
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Table of contents (41 papers)
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INTRODUCTION
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REGIONAL OVERVIEWS
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GROUNDWATER FLOW
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CHEMICAL WATER QUALITY
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Urban Groundwater Management and Sustainability
Editors: John H. Tellam, Michael O. Rivett, Rauf G. Israfilov, Liam G. Herringshaw
Series Title: NATO Science Series: IV:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-5175-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-5173-9Published: 23 October 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-5174-6Published: 19 October 2006
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-5175-3Published: 07 January 2007
Series ISSN: 1568-1238
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 490
Topics: Geology, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Hydrogeology, Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management, Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning