Integrated Groundwater Management : : Concepts, Approaches and Challenges.

Integrated Groundwater Management : : Concepts, Approaches and Challenges.

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Jakeman, Anthony J.
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Barreteau, Olivier.
Hunt, Randall J.
Rinaudo, Jean-Daniel.
Ross, Andrew.
Place / Publishing House:Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2016.
Ã2016.
Year of Publication:2016
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (756 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Foreword
  • Contents
  • Part I: Integration Overview and Problem Settings
  • 1: Integrated Groundwater Management: An Overview of Concepts and Challenges
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 Integrated Groundwater Management
  • 1.2.1 Issues of Concern
  • 1.2.2 Governance
  • 1.2.3 Stakeholders
  • 1.2.4 Human Setting
  • 1.2.5 Natural Setting
  • 1.2.6 Spatial Scales
  • 1.2.7 Time Scales
  • 1.2.8 Disciplines
  • 1.2.9 Methods, Models, Other Tools and Data
  • 1.2.10 Uncertainty
  • 1.3 Integrated Assessment, Modelling, and Other IGM Tools
  • 1.4 Book Overview and Key Messages
  • 1.4.1 Part I: Integration Overview and Problem Settings
  • 1.4.2 Part II: Governance
  • 1.4.3 Part III: Biophysical Aspects
  • 1.4.4 Part IV: Socioeconomics
  • 1.4.5 Part V: Modelling and Decision Support
  • References
  • 2: The International Scale of the Groundwater Issue
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 The Concept of Groundwater Depletion
  • 2.3 Groundwater Depletion Globally
  • 2.3.1 Global Estimates of Groundwater Extraction
  • 2.3.2 Global Depletion Examples
  • 2.3.2.1 High Plains Aquifer, United States
  • 2.3.2.2 Northwestern India
  • 2.3.2.3 Northeastern China
  • 2.3.2.4 Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
  • 2.3.2.5 Australia
  • 2.3.2.6 Techniques for Assessing Groundwater Depletion
  • 2.4 Contamination of Groundwater
  • 2.4.1 Land and Aquifer Salinization
  • 2.4.1.1 Land Salinization
  • 2.4.1.2 Aquifer Salinization
  • 2.4.2 Groundwater Contamination Due to Chemicals
  • 2.4.3 Groundwater Contamination Due to Microorganisms
  • 2.5 The Water-Energy Nexus
  • 2.6 Transboundary Water Conflict
  • 2.7 Conclusion
  • References
  • 3: Disentangling the Complexity of Groundwater Dependent Social-ecological Systems
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Groundwater: An Interaction Space of Several Interdependent Dynamics
  • 3.2.1 Crau Aquifer: A Water Circular Economy
  • 3.2.2 The Gnangara Mound.
  • 3.2.3 An Enlarged and Integrated Perspective on Groundwater Management
  • 3.3 Understanding Hydrogeological Complexity
  • 3.3.1 Determinants of Groundwater Resource Quantity
  • 3.3.1.1 Aquifer Hydraulic Properties Characterization
  • 3.3.1.2 Aquifer Recharge Estimation
  • 3.3.1.3 Aquifer Interactions with Surface Water
  • 3.3.2 Determinants of Groundwater Quality
  • 3.4 Understanding the Complexity of Groundwater-Society Interactions
  • 3.4.1 Infrastructures and Increased Human Interference in the Water Cycle
  • 3.4.1.1 Groundwater Abstraction
  • 3.4.1.2 Irrigation and Drainage
  • 3.4.1.3 Artificial Groundwater Recharge
  • 3.4.2 The Impacts of Land Use Change on Groundwater
  • 3.4.2.1 Agricultural Development and Groundwater
  • 3.4.2.2 Urban and Industrial Land Use
  • 3.4.3 Energy: Groundwater Policy Interactions
  • 3.5 Policies for the IGM-Scape
  • 3.5.1 Policy Levers to Promote Sustainable Groundwater Management
  • 3.5.1.1 Policies Tackling Components of the IGM-Scape
  • 3.5.1.2 Policies Tackling Fluxes in the IGM-scape
  • 3.5.2 Pathways Opened Up by These Policy Levers and Others
  • 3.5.2.1 Policies with Indirect Effect on Groundwater
  • 3.5.2.2 Uncertainties in Groundwater-Related Social-Ecological Systems Dynamics
  • 3.5.3 The Governance Challenge Extended
  • 3.5.3.1 The Legitimacy Challenge
  • 3.5.3.2 Promoting Water at Policy Level
  • 3.6 Conclusions
  • References
  • 4: Groundwater Management Under Global Change: Sustaining Biodiversity, Energy and Food Supplies
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Implications of Climate Change for Groundwater
  • 4.2.1 Direct Impacts from Climate Change
  • 4.2.2 Climate Change Mitigation Policies
  • 4.2.2.1 New and Emerging Energy Technologies
  • Biofuels
  • Geothermal
  • Unconventional Gas
  • Solar Thermal
  • Aquifer Thermal Energy Systems
  • Fossil Substitution.
  • 4.2.2.2 Risks to Groundwater from Carbon Sequestration in the Landscape
  • 4.2.3 Climate Change Adaptation Policies
  • 4.2.3.1 Water Supply
  • 4.2.3.2 Irrigated Food Production
  • 4.2.3.3 Freshwater Biodiversity Conservation
  • 4.3 Discussion and Conclusion
  • References
  • 5: Linking Climate Change and Groundwater
  • 5.1 Introduction and Motivation
  • 5.1.1 Rising Interest in Impacts of Climate Change on Subsurface Water
  • 5.1.2 What Is Global Change?
  • 5.2 Climate Projections
  • 5.2.1 Global Climate Models
  • 5.2.2 Downscaling
  • 5.3 An Holistic View of Groundwater Hydrology: Selected Studies
  • 5.3.1 Precipitation, Evapotranspiration, and Surface Water Affect Groundwater
  • 5.3.2 Soil Water and Vadose Zone Hydrology
  • 5.3.3 Saturated Zone/Groundwater
  • 5.3.4 Groundwater Recharge
  • 5.3.5 Groundwater Discharge
  • 5.3.6 Aquifer Flow and Storage
  • 5.3.7 Surface-Subsurface Hydrological Interactions
  • 5.3.8 Groundwater Quality
  • 5.4 Methods for Investigating Global Change Beneath the Surface
  • 5.4.1 Age Dating and Chemical Proxies
  • 5.4.2 Hydrogeophysical Techniques
  • 5.4.3 Remote Sensing of Space-Time Trends
  • 5.5 Assessments of Subsurface Hydrology: Numerical Simulations
  • 5.6 The Role of Groundwater in the Water-Food-Energy-Climate Nexus
  • 5.7 Adapting to Climate Change: Integrated Groundwater Management
  • 5.8 Future Directions
  • References
  • Part II: Governance
  • 6: Groundwater Governance in Australia, the European Union and the Western USA
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 Framework for the Assessment of Groundwater Governance
  • 6.2.1 Architecture
  • 6.2.2 Access and Allocation
  • 6.2.3 Accountability
  • 6.2.4 Adaptation
  • 6.2.5 Agency
  • 6.3 Groundwater Governance in Australia, the European Union and the Western United States
  • 6.3.1 The Context for Groundwater Governance.
  • 6.3.2 Key Elements of Groundwater Governance in Australia, the EU and the Western USA
  • 6.4 Governance Architecture: Principles, Policies and Institutions
  • 6.4.1 Australia
  • 6.4.2 The European Union (EU)
  • 6.4.3 Western USA
  • 6.5 Access and Allocation
  • 6.5.1 Australia
  • 6.5.2 The EU
  • 6.5.3 The Western USA
  • 6.6 Accountability
  • 6.6.1 Australia
  • 6.6.2 The EU
  • 6.6.3 Western USA
  • 6.6.4 Monitoring - A Common Challenge
  • 6.7 Adaptation
  • 6.7.1 Australia
  • 6.7.2 The EU
  • 6.7.3 Western USA
  • 6.8 Agency
  • 6.8.1 Australia
  • 6.8.2 The EU
  • 6.8.3 Western USA
  • 6.8.4 The Influence of Vested Interests
  • 6.9 Comparative Assessment of Groundwater Governance in Australia, the EU and the Western USA
  • 6.10 Some Groundwater Governance Difficulties and Dilemmas
  • 6.11 Conclusions
  • References
  • 7: Groundwater Law
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 Envisioning Groundwater in Law: Its Nature and Ownership
  • 7.2.1 What Is Groundwater, for the Purposes of the Law?
  • 7.2.2 Who Owns Groundwater?
  • 7.3 Controlling Groundwater Extraction
  • 7.3.1 Who Regulates Groundwater Quantity?
  • 7.3.2 Macro-Level Controls: Establishing Groundwater Withdrawal Limits Through Plans and Other Means
  • Walnut Creek Intensive Groundwater Use Control Area, Kansas
  • 7.3.3 Micro Level Controls: Rights, Entitlements and Licences
  • 7.3.4 The Challenge of Exempt Uses
  • 7.3.5 The Challenge of a Human Right to Water
  • 7.3.6 The Challenge of Connecting Groundwater Abstraction to Surface Water and Ecosystems
  • Protections for GDEs in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales
  • 7.3.7 The Challenge of Connecting Groundwater Abstraction Across Boundaries
  • 7.4 Controlling Discharges of Pollution to Groundwater
  • 7.4.1 Macro-Level Groundwater Quality Goals
  • 7.4.2 Micro-Level Controls: Diffuse and Point Sources
  • 7.5 Conclusion
  • References.
  • 8: Groundwater Regulation and Integrated Water Planning
  • 8.1 Introduction
  • 8.2 Challenges Linked to Groundwater Management
  • 8.3 Integrated Water Management Framework
  • 8.3.1 Water and Its Environment
  • 8.3.2 River Basin Management Objectives
  • 8.4 Operational Management
  • 8.4.1 Pollution Control
  • 8.4.2 Voluntary Agreements
  • 8.4.3 Cost Recovery
  • 8.4.4 Institutional Structure
  • 8.5 Planning
  • 8.5.1 Functions of Plans and Policies
  • 8.5.2 The Planning Process
  • 8.5.3 Planning Systems
  • 8.6 Analytical Support
  • 8.6.1 Analytical Support for Operational Management: Main Challenges
  • 8.6.2 Analytical Support and the Strategic Level: New Directions
  • 8.7 Internationally Shared Aquifers
  • 8.8 Public Participation
  • 8.9 The EU Approach
  • 8.10 An Example from Michigan, USA: A State Level Approach
  • 8.11 The Australian Approach
  • 8.11.1 Early Approach
  • 8.11.2 The Murray-Darling Basin
  • 8.11.3 Groundwater Use
  • 8.11.4 National Level Policy
  • 8.11.4.1 The National Water Initiative
  • 8.11.5 National Groundwater Action Plan
  • 8.11.6 Implementation of Policy at State and Local Levels
  • 8.11.7 Groundwater Quality
  • 8.11.8 Challenging Contemporary Groundwater Management Issues
  • References
  • 9: Conjunctive Management Through Collective Action
  • 9.1 Introduction
  • 9.2 Conjunctive Management: Experiences from Australia, Spain and the United States of America
  • 9.2.1 Australia
  • 9.2.2 Spain
  • 9.2.3 United States of America
  • 9.3 Discussion and Conclusion
  • References
  • 10: The Social-Environmental Justice of Groundwater Governance
  • 10.1 Why Justice Matters in Water Governance
  • 10.2 Challenges of Groundwater Governance
  • 10.3 Defining Justice
  • 10.4 Why Justice Should Be Considered in Groundwater Governance
  • 10.5 Synthesis
  • 10.6 Joining the Dots: Justice, Governance and Sustainability
  • 10.7 Conclusion.
  • References.

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