Mike Edmunds / Paul Shand (eds.)

Gebundenes Buch

Natural Groundwater Quality

Beschreibung

The European Water Framework Directive forms the basic legislation for the protection of the European aquatic environment. The Groundwater Directive (GD) was adopted in 2006 to supplement the Water Framework Directive (WFD) and to deal with the specific questions of groundwater quality and to ensure good status of groundwater. At the same time there is still a poor perception of the importance of groundwater by many people involved in civic management and public policy. Against this background a consortium of European scientists conducted detailed studies of water quality in Europe, focusing on the natural baseline quality of groundwater as the basis for understanding geochemical processes in aquifers, and providing a framework for defining what constitutes pollution. This text is the result of these important studies, and constitutes a key reference on natural water quality of aquifers. It presents a series of thematic chapters together with chapters on representative groundwater systems in Europe which illustrate the main processes and evolution of water quality.

Autor

Mike Edmunds, based at Oxford University, is Research Director of the Oxford Centre for Water Research and formerly research geochemist with the British Geological Survey. He has worked extensively on groundwater quality in UK and overseas and has over 200 scientific publications. Paul Shand is a Landscape Geochemist with CSIRO in Adelaide, Australia and Program Leader for research into environmental applications of regolith science for the Australian Commonwealth Research Council for Landscape Environments and Mineral Exploration Program. He was formerly a Principal Hydrogeochemist with the British Geological Survey and has worked extensively in the UK and abroad on a wide range of hydrogeochemistry and water quality issues.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 488
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 196mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 1102g
• ISBN-13: 9781405156752
• ISBN-10: 1405156759
• Artikelnr.: 22950953

Rezensionen

"This book is a well-written explanation of the natural groundwaterquality of European aquifers. These studies will serve as a goodreference for researchers, agencies, and professional organizationsin carrying out the European Groundwater Directive and forresearching other European aquifers that have not been welldocumented." (Carbonates Evaporites, 2010)

"This is a well-produced book with many detailed, clear figures.It will serve its purpose well - of informing WFD assessments ofnatural background quality." (Geoscientist, 1 December 2010)

"This text is the result of these important studies andconstitutes a key reference on natural water quality ofacquifiers." (Journal of the American Water ResourcesAssociation, December 2008)

"The book would be a very good introduction for scientistsdesiring to learn more about this area of inquiry ... .The bookalso would be useful for someone interested in learning more aboutthe major aquifiers of Europe." (Ground Water,November/December 2008)