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Title Groundwater environment in Asian Cities : concepts, methods and case studies / edited by Sangam Shrestha, Vishnu Prasad Pandey, Binaya Raj Shivakoti, Shashidhar Thatikonda
Published Oxford : Butterworth-Heinemann, ©2016

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Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; List of contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Foreword; Foreword; Foreword; Contents; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Section I -- Concepts and Methods; Chapter 1 -- Groundwater as an Environmental Issue in Asian Cities; 1.1 -- Introduction; 1.2 -- Case study cities; 1.3 -- Structure of the book; References; Chapter 2 -- DPSIR Framework for Evaluating Groundwater Environment; 2.1 -- Introduction; 2.2 -- Structure of the framework; 2.2.1 -- Driver; 2.2.2 -- Pressure; 2.2.3 -- State; 2.2.4 -- Impact; 2.2.5 -- Response; 2.3 -- Selection of indicators
2.3.1 -- A Case of Integrated Environment Assessment2.3.2 -- Land and Soil Degradation Cases; 2.3.3 -- Air Quality Case; 2.3.4 -- Water Issue Cases; 2.3.5 -- Subsurface Environment Case; 2.3.6 -- Generic Set of Indicators for Evaluating the Groundwater Environment; 2.4 -- Interpreting the results; 2.5 -- Summary; Acknowledgment; References; Section II -- Groundwater Environment in South Asia; Chapter 3 -- Water Environment in South Asia: An Introduction; 3.1 -- Physiography and climate; 3.2 -- Socioeconomics and environmental issues; 3.3 -- Water availability and withdrawal; 3.4 -- Case study cities
AcknowledgmentReferences; Chapter 4 -- Groundwater Environment in Chitwan, Nepal; 4.1 -- Introduction; 4.2 -- About the study area; 4.2.1 -- Physiography, Climate, and River Systems; 4.2.2 -- Economic Activities; 4.2.3 -- Geological Setting; 4.2.4 -- Hydrogeology; 4.2.5 -- Groundwater Potentials; 4.3 -- Drivers; 4.3.1 -- Population Growth; 4.3.2 -- Urbanization; 4.3.3 -- Industrialization; 4.3.4 -- Agricultural Intensification; 4.4 -- Pressures; 4.4.1 -- Land Cover Change; 4.4.2 -- Technological Interventions in Agriculture; 4.5 -- State; 4.5.1 -- Well Statistics and Groundwater Abstraction
4.5.2 -- Groundwater Level4.5.3 -- Groundwater Quality; 4.5.4 -- Groundwater Recharge; 4.6 -- Impacts; 4.6.1 -- Decline in Groundwater Level; 4.6.2 -- Deterioration in Groundwater Quality; 4.7 -- Responses; 4.7.1 -- Formulation of Policies and Laws; 4.7.2 -- Groundwater Monitoring; 4.7.3 -- Setting up Environmental Standards and Guidelines; 4.7.4 -- Organizational Adjustments; 4.7.5 -- Public Awareness and Interest; 4.8 -- Summary; References; Annex 4.1 -- Calculation of total amount of groundwater abstraction in Chitwan; Chapter 5 -- Groundwater Environment in Delhi, India; 5.1 -- Introduction
5.2 -- About the city5.2.1 -- Physiography and Climate; 5.2.2 -- Morphology and Geology; 5.2.3 -- Hydrogeology; 5.3 -- Drivers; 5.3.1 -- Population Growth; 5.3.2 -- Urbanization; 5.3.3 -- Climate Change; 5.4 -- Pressures; 5.4.1 -- Land Use/Land Cover (LULC); 5.4.2 -- Surface Water and Groundwater Use; 5.5 -- State; 5.5.1 -- Well Statistics; 5.5.2 -- Groundwater Abstraction; 5.5.3 -- Groundwater Level; 5.5.4 -- Groundwater Quality; 5.5.5 -- Groundwater Recharge; 5.6 -- Impacts; 5.6.1 -- Decline in Groundwater Level; 5.6.2 -- Degradation in Groundwater Quality; 5.7 -- Responses; 5.7.1 -- Institutional Arrangements
5.7.2 -- Groundwater Monitoring
Summary Groundwater contributes to the sustainable development of many Asian cities by providing water for domestic, industrial and agricultural uses and regulating ecosystem flows. However, groundwater has not always been properly managed, which often has resulted in depletion and degradation of the resource. Groundwater Environment in Asian Cities presents the up-to-date scientific knowledge on groundwater environment in fourteen Asian cities using Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response (DPSIR) framework. In detail the book presents the facts and figures of groundwater dependency, problems related to groundwater over exploitation, implementation of various policy instruments and management practices and their results in selected fourteen Asian cities, namely; Bandung (Indonesia), Bangkok (Thailand), Beijing (China), Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan), Chitwan (Nepal), Delhi (India), Dili (East Timor), Ho Chi Minh (Vietnam), Hyderabad (India), Khulna (Bangladesh), Lahore (Pakistan), Seoul (South Korea), Tokyo (Japan), and Yangon (Myanmar). The book provides the one-step platform to get sufficient details about groundwater aquifers, hydrogeology, groundwater status, impacts on groundwater environment and responses (technology, policy, institutional, etc.) deployed in the case studies cities, and therefore, provides a snap-shot of Asian groundwater environments. The theoretical background of the topics discussed along with the case studies help the readers understand the similarities and differences about the status of groundwater development and use in each city. In addition, the information in the book will serve as a baseline for other research such as mitigation of groundwater related problems (e.g., land subsidence), impact of climate change on groundwater, and importance of groundwater for implementing sustainable development goals in future
Notes Includes index
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Subject Groundwater -- Asia
Groundwater -- Asia -- Management
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Environmental -- General.
Groundwater
Groundwater -- Management
Asia
Form Electronic book
Author Shrestha, Sangam.
Pandey, Vishnu Prasad.
Shivajoti, Binaya Raj
Thatikonda, Shashidhar
ISBN 0128031670
9780128031674