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Groundwater and Society

Applications of Geospatial Technology

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  • Uses remote sensing, GIS and geostatistical techniques for groundwater resources mapping, monitoring, and modelling
  • Provides an up-to-date critical analysis of the debates and discourses surrounding groundwater resources and society
  • Describes novel, region-specific management strategies and techniques for sustainability

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Groundwater Resources and Societal Development

  2. Groundwater Availability, Quality and Pollution

  3. Sustainable Groundwater Resources Management

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About this book

This volume advances the scientific understanding, development, and application of geospatial technologies related to groundwater resource management, mapping, monitoring, and modelling using up-to-date remote sensing and GIS techniques. The book further provides a critical analysis of the debates and discourses surrounding groundwater resources and society, illustrates the relationship between groundwater resources and precision agriculture for societal development, and describes novel, region-specific management strategies and techniques for sustainability with case studies. The book is organized into three parts: (I) Groundwater resources and societal development; (II) Groundwater availability, quality and pollution; and (III) Sustainable groundwater resources management. Each section begins with a short introduction that includes an overview of the papers in that section. Individual chapters focus on the core themes of research and knowledge along with some topics that have received lesser attention. The book will be of interest to water resource planners and decision-makers, academic researchers, policy makers, NGOs, and academic researchers and students in Geography, Geophysics, Hydrology, Remote Sensing & GIS, Agriculture, Soil Science, and Agronomy.

Editors and Affiliations

  • PG Department of Geography, Raja N.L. Khan Women’s College, Autonomous, Midnapore, India

    Pravat Kumar Shit

  • RANDSTAD India Pvt Ltd., New Delhi, India

    Gouri Sankar Bhunia

  • ICAR Indian Institute of Water Management, Bhubaneswar, India

    Partha Pratim Adhikary

  • ICAR Indian Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Research Centre, Koraput, India

    Ch. Jyotiprava Dash

About the editors

Dr. Pravat Kumar Shit is an Assistant Professor at the PG Department of Geography, Raja N. L. Khan Women’s College (Autonomous), West Bengal, India. He received his M.Sc & Ph.D. degrees in Geography from Vidyasagar University and PG Diploma in Remote Sensing & GIS from Sambalpur University. His research interests include applied geomorphology, soil erosion, groundwater, forest resources, wetland ecosystem, environmental contaminants & pollution, and natural resources mapping & modeling. He has published eight books (six books in Springer) and more than 60 papers in peer-reviewed journals.  He is currently the editor of the GIScience and Geo-environmental Modelling (GGM) Book Series, Springer-Nature.

Dr. Gouri Sankar Bhunia received a Ph.D. from the University of Calcutta, India in 2015. His Ph.D. dissertation work focused on environmental control measures of infectious disease using Geospatial technology. His research interests include environmental modelling, risk assessment, natural resources mapping and modelling, data mining and information retrieval using Geospatial technology. Dr. Bhunia is associate editor and on the editorial boards of three international journal in Health GIS and Geosciences. Dr. Bhunia has published more than 70 articles in various journals indexed in Scopus. 

 

Dr. Partha Pratim Adhikary is a Senior Scientist at ICAR-Indian Institute of Water Management, Bhubaneswar, India. He obtained his Ph.D. in Agricultural Physics from ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India. His research interests include solute transport, soil and water conservation and management, pedotransfer functions, and geospatial modeling of natural resources. Dr. Adhikary has published more than 70 research papers in peer reviewed journals and three books. His other publications include book chapters, popular articles, technology brochures, technical bulletins and scientific reports. He is the associate editor of Indian Journal of Soil Conservation. Currently, he is the editor of Springer-Nature book series “GIScience and Geo-environmental Modelling”.

Dr. Ch. Jyotiprava Dash is a Scientist at ICAR-Indian Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Research Centre, Sunabeda, Koraput, Odisha, India. She obtained her Ph.D. in Agricultural Engineering with specialization in Soil and Water Conservation Engineering from ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India. She has experience of more than 10 years on research, training and extension in the field of Soil and Water conservation, Watershed Management, Geostatistics, Surface and Groundwater Modeling, Remote Sensing and GIS. Dr. Dash has been bestowed with many awards and fellowships by many professional academic societies and Government bodies for her contributions to science and society. She has published more than 50 research papers in peer reviewed journals and two books.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Groundwater and Society

  • Book Subtitle: Applications of Geospatial Technology

  • Editors: Pravat Kumar Shit, Gouri Sankar Bhunia, Partha Pratim Adhikary, Ch. Jyotiprava Dash

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64136-8

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-64135-1Published: 13 March 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-64138-2Published: 14 March 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-64136-8Published: 12 March 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 534

  • Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 199 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Water, general, Computer Applications, Geography, general, Sustainable Development, Environment, general

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