Integrated Groundwater Management: Concepts, Approaches and Challenges (Hardcover, 2016)

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.