Groundwater And Ecosystems

by Baba, Alper; Howard, Ken W. F.; Gunduz, Orhan

• ISBN13: 9781402047367
• ISBN10: 1402047363
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-06-15
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

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 and there is growing recognition that much can be gained by co-operation on an international scale. This is no time to be complacent and it is critical that key problems be identified, that the potential consequences of these problems be understood, and that the development of solutions begins urgently. Important data gaps must be recognized and filled without delay

Table of Contents

List of participants

Preface

Acknowledgement

Remote Sensing Techniques to Monitoring Coastal Plain Areas Suffering from Salt Water Intrusion and Detection of Fresh Water Discharge in Coastal, Karstic Areas: Case Studies from Greece

Effects of Fly Ash from Coal-Burning Electrical Utilities on Ecosystem and Utilization of Fly Ash

Groundwater Age: A Vital Information in Protecting the Groundwater Dependent Ecosystem

Groundwater in Semi-Arid Mediterranean Areas: Desertification, Soil Salinization and Ecosystems

Assessment of Vulnerability of Water Resources to Climate Change: Ecohydrological Implications

Predicting Probable Effects of Urbanization on Future Ecological Integrity in the Upper Illinois River Basin, USA

Geochemical Modelling of Geothermal Fluids - Application of the Computer Program SOLMINEQ

Ground Water Vulnerability Assessment for Intermontane Valleys Using Chu Valley of Kyrghyzstan as an Example

Surface/Subsurface Interactions: Coupling Mechanisms and Numerical Solution Procedures

Ground-Surface Water Interactions and the Role of the Hyporheic Zone

Ground Water Management at Irrigated Lands of Uzbekistan and its Influence on Ecological System

Improved Groundwater Management Strategies at the amu darya River

The Impact of Groundwater production and Exploitation on Ecosystem in Azerbaijan

On Modelling of Ground and Surface Water Interactions

Nitrogen Leaching in Aquatic Terrestrial Transition Zone

Interactions Between Groundwater - Surface Water and Terrestrial Systems

Natural Water Supply and Fertilization Interactions on Crops Yield In Fragile Agroecosystem

Groundwater Fluxes in Arid and Semi-Arid Environments

Water Management in Thessaly, Central Greece

Modeling of Heavy Metal Contamination within an Irrigated Area

Using of Groundwater for Increasing of Water Supply of Irrigation Systems in Arid Zone

Groundwater Modelling in Atlantic Coastal Ecosystems (South Portugal)

Global Change, its Impact on Functions of Aquifer Systems and their Dependent Ecosystems

The Vulnerability of Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems: A Study on the Porsuk River Basin (Turkey) as a typical Example

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