Groundwater: Recent Advances in Interdisciplinary Knowledge

ISBN-13: 9781032386072 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 360 str.

Nickum, James E.

Opis

This book contributes to UN Water Groundwater year (2022), and to the effort of "making the invisible, visible". An insightful resource for researchers and planners in the field of environmental policies, water laws, climate change and groundwater governance, this book comes with a new Introduction.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: Groundwater institutions  1. From an open-access to a state-controlled resource: the case of groundwater in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal  2. Pathways for effective groundwater governance in the least-developed-country context of the Lao PDR  3. Using backcasting to explore ways to improve the national water department’s contribution to good groundwater governance in South Africa  4. Groundwater governance through institutional bricolage? Participation in Morocco’s Chtouka aquifer contract  Part 2: Groundwater management  5. Exploring the future impacts of urbanization and climate change on groundwater in Arusha, Tanzania  6. Impact of land use and occupation on potential groundwater recharge in a Brazilian savannah watershed  7. Problems and promise of managed recharge in karstified aquifers: the example of Lebanon  8. A multifaceted quantitative index for sustainability assessment of groundwater management: application for aquifers around Iran  Part 3: Groundwater users  9. Whither collective action? Upscaling collective actions, politics and basin management in the process of ‘legitimizing’ an informal groundwater economy  10. Participatory rural appraisal to assess groundwater resources in Al-Mujaylis, Tihama Coastal Plain, Yemen  11. Federal reserved rights and California's Groundwater Management Act: resolving groundwater rights tensions in California and the western United States  Part 4: Groundwater for irrigation  12. Learning from the past to build the future governance of groundwater use in agriculture  13. Drivers of groundwater utilization in water-limited rice production systems in Nepal  14. Groundwater policies and irrigation development: a study of West Bengal, India, 1980–2016  Part 5: Transboundary aquifers  15. Transboundary groundwater governance in the Guarani Aquifer System: reflections from a survey of global and regional experts  16. A methodology to identify vulnerable transboundary aquifer hotspots for multi-scale groundwater management  17. Binational reflections on pathways to groundwater security in the Mexico–United States borderlands  18. A critical review of the transboundary aquifers in South-Eastern Europe and new insights from the EU’s water framework directive implementation process