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Author:   Anthony J Jakeman ,  Olivier Barreteau ,  Randall J Hunt ,  Jean-Daniel Rinaudo
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2016
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 4.10cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.681kg
ISBN:  

9783319235752

ISBN 10:   3319235753
Pages:   762
Publication Date:   07 September 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Overview concepts, approaches and challenges of integrated groundwater management.- Disentangling the complexity of a groundwater dependent socio-ecological system.- The scale of the groundwater issue internationally.- Groundwater law.- Groundwater regulation and integrated water planning.- Groundwater markets.- Collective management of groundwater.- The social-ecological justice of groundwater management.- Ecohydrology and its relation to integrated groundwater management.- The ecology and assessment of groundwater-dependent ecosystems.- Water quality.- Drainage in irrigated schemes.- Toward an integrated approach for salinity management.- The contribution of social sciences and economics to groundwater planning and management.- Transforming groundwater management in farming landscapes.- Assessing the benefits of groundwater improvement and protection: why contingent valuation does not work.- Economic modeling of groundwater use and pollution.- Regulating groundwater use through economic instruments: current practices, challenges and innovative approaches.- North Africa's groundwater economy: privatization of groundwater resources.- Using multi-method approach for integrated water and groundwater management: an operations research/systems thinking perspective.- Decision support processes and models for groundwater systems.- Groundwater data management.- Hydro-economic models for conjunctive management of surface- and groundwater.- Methods for exploring uncertainties in groundwater management predictions.

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Integrated Groundwater Management: Concepts, Approaches and Challenges is a comprehensive, thorough review of the complex problem of groundwater management. ... This is a highly recommended resource. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above; faculty and professionals. (E. Gomezdelcampo, Choice, Vol. 54 (9), May, 2017)

Author Information

Tony Jakeman is Professor, Fenner School of Environment and Society and Director of the Integrated Catchment Assessment and Management (iCAM) Centre, The Australian National University. He has been an Environmental Modeller with the ANU for over 30 years and has over 300 publications in the open literature, half of these in refereed international journals. Since 1997 he has also directed the iCAM Centre pursuing methods and applications of integrated assessment and decision support. He leads the Integration and Decision Support Program of the National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training. Other scientific and organisational activities include: Editor-in-Chief, Environmental Modelling and Software; Foundation President, International Environmental Modelling and Software Society; President, Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, Inc.; Vice-President, International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation; Board of Directors, The Integrated Assessment Society; and regularly a member of scientific advisory committees of international conferences. In 2011 he received the Silver Medal of Masaryk University for contributions to environmental modelling and software. In 2012 he was awarded the Ray Page Lifetime Achievement Award from Simulation Australia.

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