Jones, J. Anthony A. (Hrsg.)
Sustaining Groundwater Resources
A Critical Element in the Global Water Crisis

Beschreibung
This is a volume in the new IYPE series commemorating the UN International Year of Planet Earth. It is intended to present two key aspects:
- The current problems: lack of water resources, growing demand and socio-economic and political contexts, pollution, climate change, lack of technological or monetary resources, overdraft, falling water tables and groundwater mining.
- The current state-of-the-art in groundwater science and exploration, and ways forward for a sustainable future.
The book focuses on the following issues:
- The value of groundwater resources in our planet Earth
- Trends in Groundwater Science/Current trend in Groundwater Science
- Link between Groundwater, Poverty Alleviation and Millennium Development Goals
- Groundwater Quality, Urbanization and Industrialization: Interplay of impacts and influences
- Challenges of protection of groundwater resources
- Sustainable groundwater resource management for sustaining the society
- The current problems: lack of water resources, growing demand and socio-economic and political contexts, pollution, climate change, lack of technological or monetary resources, overdraft, falling water tables and groundwater mining.
- The current state-of-the-art in groundwater science and exploration, and ways forward for a sustainable future.
The book focuses on the following issues:
- The value of groundwater resources in our planet Earth
- Trends in Groundwater Science/Current trend in Groundwater Science
- Link between Groundwater, Poverty Alleviation and Millennium Development Goals
- Groundwater Quality, Urbanization and Industrialization: Interplay of impacts and influences
- Challenges of protection of groundwater resources
- Sustainable groundwater resource management for sustaining the society
Produktdetails
ISBN/GTIN | 978-90-481-3426-7 |
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Seitenzahl | 228 S. |
Kopierschutz | mit Wasserzeichen |
Dateigröße | 11285 Kbytes |