The Dilemma of Boundaries Toward a New Concept of Catchment /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Taniguchi, Makoto (Editor), Shiraiwa, Takayuki (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Global Environmental Studies,
• Subjects: Environment.; Environmental management.; Hydrogeology.; Geography.; Civil engineering.; Environment, general.; Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management.; Geography, general.; Environmental Management.; Civil Engineering.

Water circulates continuously and seamlessly on Earth with little regard for the boundaries we draw. There are natural boundaries as between land and ocean and surface and subsurface environments, as well as human or demographic boundaries between nations, cultures, and religions. Although considere...