Overview
- Describes new, advanced methods for evaluating groundwater and subsurface environments
- Presents remote and in situ evaluation of groundwater
- One hundred years of data to evaluate changes and risks
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Excessive groundwater pumping, groundwater contamination, and subsurface thermal anomalies have occurred frequently in Asian coastal cities, greatly disturbing the urban aquifer and the subsurface environment. In this volume, the relationship between the stage of a city’s development and subsurface environment issues have been explored. Intensive field surveys were done in Tokyo, Osaka, Seoul, Taipei, Bangkok, Jakarta, and Manila. New, advanced methods, including satellite, tracer techniques, and the social economy model, were developed to evaluate subsurface conditions. Groundwater storage and groundwater recharge rates, as well as the accumulation and transport of pollutants, have been compiled as integrated indices of natural capacities under climate and social changes, and used to evaluate the vulnerability risk for all cities. The indices have been made on a yearly basis for seven cities for a century (1900–2000). Using these indicators it is now possible to manage groundwater resources in a sustainable fashion. This volume is indispensable to researchers in hydrology, coastal oceanography, civil engineering, urban geography, social economy, climatology, geothermics, and urban management.
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Subsurface Environmental Problems and Urban Development in Asia
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Groundwater Degradation and Resources Management
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Groundwater Contamination and Loads to the Ocean
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Subsurface Thermal Anomalies Due to Global Warming and Urbanization
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Integrated Assessment of Subsurface Environments in Asia
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Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Groundwater and Subsurface Environments
Book Subtitle: Human Impacts in Asian Coastal Cities
Editors: Makoto Taniguchi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-53904-9
Publisher: Springer Tokyo
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Japan 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-4-431-53903-2Published: 03 March 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-4-431-54668-9Published: 12 October 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-4-431-53904-9Published: 24 February 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 312
Topics: Environment, general, Water Quality/Water Pollution, Geography, general, Hydrogeology, Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning