Overexploitation and Contamination of Shared Groundwater Resources Management, (Bio)Technological, and Political Approaches to Avoid Conflicts /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Darnault, Christophe J. G. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.
• Series: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security,
• Subjects: Environment.; Environmental management.; Earth sciences.; Environmental Management.; Environment, general.; Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management.; Earth Sciences, general.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Depletion and Contamination of Shared Groundwater Resources: An Overview
• Shared Groundwater Resources: Global Significance for Social and Environmental Sustainability
• Education and Training for Transboundary Groundwater Management as an Instrument of Dialogue and Communication
• Transboundary Aquifers in International Law: Towards an Evolution
• Techniques to Assess the Depletion and Contamination of Shared Groundwater Resources
• Groundwater Geophysics: From Structure and Porosity Towards Permeability?
• Quantitative Integration of Hydrogeophysical and Hydrological Data: Geostatistical Approaches
• Hydrogeological Settings in Dobrudja Area and Groundwater Monitoring Networks in Transboundary Aquifers
• Tools to Predict/Forecast the Future Depletion and Contamination of Shared Groundwater Resources
• Coupled Surface/Subsurface Flow Systems: Numerical Modeling
• Quantitative Stochastic Hydrogeology: The Heterogeneous Environment
• Sustainable Measures to Palliate the Overexploitation of Groundwater and Decontaminate Aquifers
• Coastal Aquifers and Saltwater Intrusion
• Karst Aquifers: Hydrogeology and Exploitation
• Water Quality, Pollution and Conservation
• Physical and Chemical Groundwater Remediation Technologies
• Enhanced Aquifer Recharge
• Approaches to Shared Groundwater Resources Management: Conflict Prevention and Resolution
• Shared Groundwater Resources Management
• Sustainable Development and Integrated Management of Water Resources
• Assessing Chemical Status of Shared Groundwater Resources: A Crucial Political, Regulatory and Management Issue
• A Risk-based Integrated Approach for Managing Transboundary Groundwater Resources
• Multicriterion Decision Analysis (MCDA) for Conflict Resolution in Sharing Groundwater Resources
• Strategies for Groundwater Resources Conflict Resolution and Management
• Hydropolitics and Hydroeconomics of Shared Groundwater Resources: Experience in Arid and Semi-arid Regions
• Hydrodiplomacy and Environmental Security.