Groundwater and Ecosystems (Hardcover, 2006 ed.)

Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems (GDEs) frequently exhibit rich biological diversity and can provide enormous economic wealth. In recent years, GDEs in many industrialized countries have shown signs of serious degradation, primarily the result of groundwater abstraction and pollution. Many such systems, including a number of well documented cases in Eastern Europe, are no longer sustainable. As a consequence, the conservation and sustainable management of GDEs has emerged as one of the most urgent environmental research priorities of our time. A large percentage of the world's population lives in cities and either depends on, or is affected in some way, by groundwater. Moreover, groundwater has become a very important and complex issue that attracts the interest of many diverse stakeholders. Many problems related to groundwater and ecosystems are shared by countries throughout the world...

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	NATO Science Series: IV:, 70
Release date:	May 2006
First published:	2006
Editors:	Alper Baba • Ken W.F. Howard • Orhan Gunduz
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	310
Edition:	2006 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4020-4736-7
Categories:	Books > Professional & Technical > Environmental engineering & technology > General Books > Earth & environment > Earth sciences > Geology & the lithosphere > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4020-4736-3
Barcode:	9781402047367

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