Groundwater Science and Policy An International Overview /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge,
Royal Society of Chemistry,
2007.
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/9781847558039 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword: Preface: 1. General introduction: The need to protect groundwater
- 2. Science-policy integration needs
- 2.1. Science-policy integration for common approaches linked to groundwater management in Europe
- 2.2. Transferring scientific knowledge to societal use: clue from the AQUATERRA integrated project
- 2.3. Groundwater management and planning: how can economics help?
- 3. Groundwater regulatory framework
- 3.1. EU Groundwater policy
- 3.2. US Drinking Water Regulation: Overview of the Ground Water Rule
- 4. Stakeholder's interactions
- 4.1. Principles of the Common Implementation Strategy of the WFD - The WG Groundwater
- 4.2. The Pilot River Basin network - examples of groundwater-related activities
- 4.3. The HarmoniCA initiative
- 4.4. Linking public participation to adaptive management
- 5. Groundwater characterization and risk assessment
- 5.1. Groundwater characterization and risk assessment in the context of the EU Water Framework Directive
- 5.2. Groundwater quality background levels
- 5.3. Groundwater age and water quality vulnerability
- 5.4. Characterization of groundwater contamination and natural attenuation potential at multiple scales
- 5.5. Improved risk assessment of contaminant spreading in fractured underground reservoirs
- 5.6. Groundwater risk assessment at contaminated sites (GRACOS): Test methods and modeling approaches
- 5.7. INCORE - Integrated concept for groundwater remediation
- 6. Groundwater monitoring
- 6.1. Groundwater monitoring in the policy context
- 6.2. Screening methods for groundwater monitoring
- 6.3. Quality assurance for groundwater monitoring
- 7. Groundwater pollution prevention and remediation
- 7.1. Prevention and reduction of pollution of groundwater pollution at contaminated megasites: integrated management strategy, and its application on megasite cases
- 7.2. Forecasting natural attenuation as risk-based groundwater remediation strategy
- 7.3. Diffuse groundwater quality impacts from agricultural land-use - Management and policy implications of scientific realities
- 8. Integrated river basin management
- 8.1. IWRM principles for groundwater in the WFD context
- 8.2. System approach to environmentally acceptable farming
- 8.3. WATCH - Water catchment areas: Tools for management and control of hazardous compounds
- 9. Groundwater status assessment
- 9.1. Methodology for the establishment of groundwater quality standards
- 9.2. Pesticides in European Groundwaters: biogeochemical processes, contamination status and results from a case study
- 9.3. Evaluation of the quantitative status of groundwater-surface water interaction at a national scale
- 10. Modeling
- 10.1. Conceptual models in river basin management
- 10.2. Modeling reactive transport of diffuse contaminants: identifying the groundwater contribution to surface water quality
- 11. Conclusions - Further policy and research needs
- 11.1. SNOWMAN - An alternative for transnational research funding
- 11.2. Groundwater ecosystems research & policy needs
- 11.3. Towards a science-policy interface (WISE-RTD) in support of groundwater management and its links to EU-research funding programmes
- 12. Appendices
- Appendix I - Outline of Water Framework Directive
- Appendix II - Outline of Groundwater Directive.