Overview
- Provides insights into groundwater protection, exploitation, monitoring, and the risks associated with groundwater-resources management
- Promotes mutual understanding between researchers with different backgrounds
- Richly illustrated throughout
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry (HEC, volume 40)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Geological CO2 storage
- Hydrogeochemical methods
- Groundwater contamination
- Electromagnetic sensing techniques
- Water pollution
- Geoelectrical measurements
- Groundwater pollution
- Microfluidic optical methods
- Non-conventional electrochemical sensors
- Non-conventional optical sensors
- Acid mine drainage
- water quality and water pollution
About this book
This book focuses on scientific and technological aspects of groundwater-resources assessment and surveillance. It describes relevant risks and investigates selected techniques for the monitoring and mitigation of the individuated threats to groundwater quality. The authors discuss the concepts of groundwater-resources protection and offer examples of both geogenic and anthropogenic degradation of groundwater quality, such as heavy metals from mining activities and natural water-rock interactions, as well as risk of contamination due to geological CO2 storage practices etc. The volume also covers non-invasive monitoring techniques and briefly addresses innovative sensor technologies for the online assessment of water quality. Furthermore, the role played by geochemical techniques, the potential of environmental isotopes and the support provided by physical modelling are highlighted. The chapters guide the reader through various viewpoints, according to the diverse disciplines involved, without aiming to be exhaustive, but instead picking representative topics for their relevance in the context of groundwater protection and control.
This book will be of interest to advanced students, researchers, policy-makers and stakeholders at various levels.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Threats to the Quality of Groundwater Resources
Book Subtitle: Prevention and Control
Editors: Andrea Scozzari, Elissavet Dotsika
Series Title: The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48596-5
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-48594-1Published: 04 December 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-56940-5Published: 29 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-48596-5Published: 27 November 2015
Series ISSN: 1867-979X
Series E-ISSN: 1616-864X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 317
Number of Illustrations: 100 b/w illustrations, 50 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Chemistry, Water Quality/Water Pollution, Geochemistry, Analytical Chemistry