An International Overview
E-Book, Englisch, 766 Seiten, Web PDF
ISBN: 978-1-84755-803-9
Verlag: Royal Society of Chemistry
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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