Overview
- Provides a comprehensive overview of groundwater sustainability
- Includes numerous global case studies to demonstrate where sustainable management has failed and succeeded
- Invaluable to both academics and practitioners in the field offering an accessible non-technical approach
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Environmental Sustainability (PASTENSU)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book will provide a comprehensive discussion of groundwater sustainability, including what it is, how its definition has changed over time, why traditional assessments of it are wrong, how assessments of it are ideally multidisciplinary efforts recognizing that policy is more controlling of outcomes than science, and why achieving it is difficult once pumping exceeds sustainable levels of pumping. The book will provide a nontechnical background of hydrogeology relevant to groundwater sustainability and present several case studies from around the United States and the world.
The book has been designed to appeal to academics, students, and practitioners. Academics, particularly those just getting into the subject, will find the book a useful entry in terms of management concepts and political realities of attempting to achieve groundwater sustainability. It will also be useful to academics in that the book will include discussions on the history and development of groundwater sustainability and the practical aspects of aspiring to and achieving sustainable production. Although not a textbook, the book could be used as the basis for teaching a course or as a supplement to a hydrogeology or groundwater management class. Accordingly, the book will include questions and additional reading materials at the end of each chapter. This book will also be useful to practitioners through non-technical explanations of the sciences, discussions of the nuances of defining sustainability in aquifers, and the presentation of case studies where sustainable management has failed and succeeded.Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Professor Robert E. Mace is the Executive Director and Chief Water Policy Officer at The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment and a Professor of Practice in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Texas State University. He has over 30 years of experience in hydrology, hydrogeology, stakeholder processes, and water policy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Groundwater Sustainability
Book Subtitle: Conception, Development, and Application
Authors: Robert E. Mace
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Environmental Sustainability
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13516-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-13515-6Published: 11 January 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-13518-7Published: 11 January 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-13516-3Published: 10 January 2023
Series ISSN: 2946-5311
Series E-ISSN: 2946-532X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 278
Topics: Geography, general, Physical Geography, Environmental Policy, Sociology, general, Environmental Geography, Geology