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Current Problems of Hydrogeology in Urban Areas, Urban Agglomerates and Industrial Centres
Groundwater issues have generated worldwide concern in recent decades. The problems are numerous: too little groundwater, too much groundwater, groundwater contaminated by either saline water or a broad spectrum of industrial and domestic pollutants. Many urban groundwater problems are not unique to any one region, which is the thinking behind this book. Many of the case studies presented here have never before been described in English. Overall, the papers represent the work and experience of researchers and groundwater professionals who have worked on urban groundwater issues in developed and less-developed nations around the world. They reveal the magnitude and scope of the problem as well as identify future challenges, potential courses of action, and emerging technologies that offer hope for the future.
Urban Groundwater Management and Sustainability
The forty papers in this book explore the state of sustainable groundwater management in a wide range of countries and cultures, climates, and geologies. They are organized in topic areas covering flow, chemical water quality, biological water quality, remediation, engineering, and socio-economics. An introductory section presents a range of integrated regional-scale studies. This volume will interest groundwater specialists in industry and research, and will provide insight for other urban specialists, including planners.
Climate Change and its Effects on Water Resources
National and global security can be assessed in many ways but one underlying factor for all humanity is access to reliable sources of water for drinking, sanitation, food production and manufacturing industry. In many parts of the world, population growth and an escalating demand for water already threaten the sustainable management of available water supplies. Global warming, climate change and rising sea level are expected to intensify the resource sustainability issue in many water-stressed regions of the world by reducing the annual supply of renewable fresh water and promoting the intrusion of saline water into aquifers along sea coasts, where 50% of the global population reside. Pro-ac...
The Vortex
Environmental challenges are defining the twenty-first century. To fully understand ongoing debates about our current crises—climate change, loss of biological diversity, pollution, extinction, resource woes—means revisiting their origins, in all their complexity. With this ambitious, highly original contribution to the environmental history of global modernity, Frank Uekötter considers the many ways humans have had an impact on their physical environment throughout history. Ours is not a one-way trajectory to sudden collapse, he argues, but rather death by a thousand cuts. The many paths we’ve forged to arrive in our current predicament, from agriculture to industry to infrastructure...
Im Strudel
Vor 500 Jahren war der Eukalyptus ein in Australien heimischer Baum, der Dodo lebte friedlich auf einer Insel im indischen Ozean und Holz war das wichtigste Brennmaterial. Heute gibt es rund um den Globus Eukalyptusplantagen, der Dodo ist ausgestorben und die Welt verbraucht jeden Tag 95 Millionen Barrel Erdöl. Menschen und Materialien sind in nie gekanntem Umfang in Bewegung, die ökologischen Folgen unseres Lebensstils sind Schlüsselthemen der Weltpolitik. Doch nur wenigen Menschen ist klar, in welchem Ausmaß unser Reden und Handeln über Umweltfragen von der Vergangenheit geprägt ist. Die Krise der Gegenwart – Klimawandel, Umweltverschmutzung, Artensterben – versteht man aber erst dann wirklich, wenn man sie als Ergebnis einer langen, wechselvollen Geschichte begreift. Frank Uekötter verfolgt in dieser Umweltgeschichte der Moderne, wie sich ökologische Verwerfungen und Konflikte im Laufe der Jahrhunderte entwickelten. Er zeigt zudem die politischen, sozialen und wirtschaftlichen Faktoren hinter den weltweiten Weichenstellungen auf, die von den reichen Gesellschaften des Westens geprägt wurden.
Current Geographical Publications
Current Geographical Publications (CGP) is a non-profit service to the scholarly community initiated in 1938 by the American Geographical Society of New York. Beginning in 2006, the format changed to include the tables of contents of current geographical journals. The journal titles listed link to web pages or PDF scans of the current issue's contents.
