Younger Groundwater in the Environment

An Introduction
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4443-0904-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten, E-Book

This accessible new textbook provides a thorough introduction toall aspects of groundwater systems and their management. Usingstraightforward language and analogies to everyday experiences, itexplains the origins, nature, and behavior of subsurface waterwithout resorting to complicated mathematics.
Groundwater in the Environment draws on case studies andcutting-edge research from around the world, giving a uniqueinsight into groundwater occurring in a wide range of differentclimate zones and geological settings. This book:
* provides a robust, practical introduction to groundwaterquality, and a succinct summary of modern remedial technologies forpolluted groundwaters
* explores how groundwater fits into the wider naturalenvironment, especially in relation to freshwater ecosystems
* considers the vulnerability of groundwater systems and theeffects of pollution, climate change, land-use change, andoverexploitation
* examines human dependence on water and the effect that this hason groundwater systems
* presents vivid examples of geohazards associated with groundwaters
* explains the whys and wherefores of groundwater modeling
* examines competing philosophies of groundwater management,making the case for approaches which take social, economic andecological issues into account.
Goundwater in the Environment provides an up-to-date,essential introduction for undergraduate students of environmentalsciences, geography and geology. It will also be invaluable toprofessionals working in various fields of natural resourcemanagement who need accessible information on groundwater but whoare reluctant to read conventional texts full of mathematicalnotation. For practicing hydrogeologists and engineers withoutformal training in freshwater ecology, this book provides a `crashcourse' in the new frontiers of groundwater management.
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Autoren/Hrsg.

Younger, Paul L.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.
Acknowledgments.
1. Occurrence of Water Underground.
1.1. Groundwater and the Global Water Cycle.
1.2. The Natural Zonation of Water Underground.
1.3. Water Pressure, the Saturated Zone, Aquifers, andAquitards.
1.4. Aquifer Properties: Effective Porosity, Permeability,Storage.
1.5. The Geology of Groundwater Occurrence.
2. Sources of Groundwater: Recharge Processes.
2.1. Provenance of Groundwater.
2.2. Recharge Processes.
2.3. Movement of Water through the Unsaturated Zone.
3. Groundwater Movement.
3.1. "The Force that Drives the Water through theRocks".
3.2. Quantifying Flow Rates: Darcy's Law and HydraulicConductivity.
3.3. Groundwater Flow Patterns.
3.4. Quantifying the Hydraulic Properties of Aquifers.
4. Natural Groundwater Quality.
4.1. How to Read a Water Analysis.
4.2. Chemical Characteristics of Natural Groundwaters: Originsand Significance.
4.3. Displaying and Classifying Groundwater Quality.
4.4. The evolution of Natural Groundwater Quality.
5. Groundwater Discharge and Catchment Hydrology.
5.1. Groundwater Discharge Features.
5.2. The role of Groundwater in Generating Surface Runoff.
5.3. Estimating the Groundwater Component of CatchmentRunoff.
5.4. Physical Controls on Groundwater Discharge at the CatchmentScale.
6. Groundwater and Freshwater Ecosystems.
6.1. Freshwater Ecosystems.
6.2. Groundwater-fed Wetland Ecosystems.
6.3. Fluvial Ecosystems and the Hyporheic Zone.
6.4. Groundwater Ecology.
7. Groundwater as a Resource.
7.1. Current Resource Utilization of Groundwater.
7.2. Constraints on Groundwater Utility.
7.3. Methods of Groundwater Abstraction.
7.4. Conjunctive use of Groundwaters with Surface Waters.
7.5. Groundwater as a Thermal Resource.
8. Groundwater Hazards.
8.1. Geohazards and Hydro-geohazards.
8.2. Natural Hydro-geohazards.
8.3. Hydro-geohazards Induced by Human Activities.
9. Groundwater Under Threat.
9.1. Threats to Groundwater Systems.
9.2. Depletion of Groundwater Quantity.
9.3. Degradation of Groundwater Quality.
10. Modeling Groundwater Systems.
10.1. Why Simulate Groundwater Systems?.
10.2. Conceptual Models.
10.3. Representing the Conceptual Model Mathematically.
10.4. Ways of Doing the Sums: Solving Physically BasedModels.
10.5. One Step Beyond: Simulating Groundwater Quality.
10.6. Groundwater Modeling In Practice.
11. Managing Groundwater Systems.
11.1. Approaches to Groundwater Resource Management.
11.2. Towards Sustainable Groundwater Development.
11.3. Groundwater Control Measures to Mitigate Geohazards.
11.4. Preventing Groundwater Contamination.
11.5. Remediating Contaminated Groundwaters.
References.
Glossary.
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Paul L. Younger (PhD C.Geol. C.Eng.) is HSBC Professor of Environmental Technologies at the University of Newcastle, United Kingdom, where he directs water research within the Institute for Research on Environment and Sustainability, and is also a Director of the leading groundwater control contracting company, Project Dewatering Ltd. His groundwater engineering experience spans more than 20 years and six continents, ranging from hand-digging water wells with indigenous communities in the Americas, through sophisticated numerical modelling of pollutant migration in aquifers, to the design of novel remediation systems for extremely contaminated groundwaters.