Global Groundwater
Source, Scarcity, Sustainability, Security, and Solutions
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Global Groundwater
Source, Scarcity, Sustainability, Security, and Solutions
About This Book
Global Groundwater: Source, Scarcity, Sustainability, Security, and Solutions presents a compilation of compelling insights into groundwater scenarios within all groundwater-stressed regions across the world. Thematic sub-sections include groundwater studies on sources, scarcity, sustainability, security, and solutions. The chapters in these sub-sections provide unique knowledge on groundwater for scientists, planners, and policymakers, and are written by leading global experts and researchers. Global Groundwater: Source, Scarcity, Sustainability, Security, and Solutions provides a unique, unparalleled opportunity to integrate the knowledge on groundwater, ranging from availability to pollution, nation-level groundwater management to transboundary aquifer governance, and global-scale review to local-scale case-studies.
- Provides interdisciplinary content that bridges the knowledge from groundwater sources to solutions and sustainability, from science to policy, from technology to clean water and food
- Includes global and regional reviews and case studies, building a bridge between broad reviews of groundwater-related issues by domain experts as well as detailed case studies by researchers
- Identifies pathways for transforming knowledge to policy and governance of groundwater security and sustainability
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Table of contents
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- List of Contributors
- About the Editors
- Forewords
- Preface
- Acknowledgment
- Disclaimer
- Introduction: Why Study Global Groundwater?
- Theme 1: Global groundwater
- Theme 2: Groundwater sources
- Theme 3: Groundwater scarcity: quantity and quality
- Theme 4: Groundwater sustainability and security
- Theme 5: Future of groundwater and solutions
- Index