Hydrogeological and Environmental Investigations in Karst Systems

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Andreo, Bartolomé (Editor), Carrasco, Francisco (Editor), Durán, Juan José (Editor), Jiménez, Pablo (Editor), LaMoreaux, James W. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Environmental Earth Sciences ; 1
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Hydrology.; Hydrogeology.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Water pollution.; Earth Sciences.; Hydrology/Water Resources.; Environmental Monitoring/Analysis.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution.

WATER RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT provides a detailed introduction to the full range of advanced, multidisciplinary techniques used in the study of water resources from understanding individual aquifers to the protection and management of water in a sustainable way, compatible with the preservation of...

Table of Contents:

• MODULE I Water and the hydrological cycle
• Surface water
• Groundwater
• Chemical, isotopic and microbiological, composition of waterCase examples Practical activities
• MODULE II EXPLORING AND MONITORING WATER
• Data monitoring and recording
• Hydrological and environmental mappingCase examples Practical activities
• MODULE III WATER RESOURCES IN DIFFERENT GEOLOGICAL MEDIA
• Water resources in hard rocks
• Water resources in detritic materials
• Water resources in karstifiable rocks
• Coastal aquifersCase examples Practical activities
• MODULE IV WATER QUALITY, CONTAMINATION AND PROTECTION OFWATER
• Natural quality of water
• Water contamination
• Preventing contamination and protecting groundwaterCase examples Practical activities
• MODULE V WATER AND ENVIRONMENT
• Hydrologic research in wetlands
• Water in protected natural spacesCase examples Practical activities
• MODULE VI WATER RESOURCES AND SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT
• Managing water resources
• Extracting groundwaterCase examples Practical activities
• MODULE VII PROJECTS AND STUDIES ON WATER RESOURCES ANDENVIRONMENT
• Creating and managing projects on water resources and the environment
• Water in evaluation and environmental impact studies
• Projects on geothermal resources and geological storage within aquifersCase examples Practical activities
• MODULE VIII LAWS AND ECONOMY OF WATER
• Laws on water
• Water economicsCase examples Practical activities.