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1 online resource (237 p.) |
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. The Water of the Cities and the Water of the Fields -- Chapter 1. The Governance of Socio-Ecological Interdependencies: The Landes du Médoc Water Catchment Area Controversy -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Drinking water supply in Gironde, the history of a transfer from surface water to deep groundwater -- 1.2.1. Under the Roman Empire: the administration of a city's water sources in its estuary -- 1.2.2. The Middle Ages: the era of hydraulic and defensive withdrawal of the city |
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1.2.3. The hydraulic "Renaissance" in the 17th century: towards the golden age of Bordeaux fountains -- 1.2.4. From 1800 to 1850: the dark age of resource availability -- 1.2.5. From 1850 to 1950: towards extractivist geopolitics of water -- 1.2.6. From 1950 to the present day: the socio-technical anticipation of issues through the governance of the drinking water resource -- 1.3. Metropolitan territorial conceptions in the face of forestry references -- 1.4. The refinement of models and the rising criticism -- 1.5. Conclusion -- 1.6. References |
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Chapter 2. Ecological Engineering in a Controversial Drinking Water Production Project -- 2.1. The socio-hydrogeological configuration of the Landes du Médoc catchment area (Gironde) -- 2.2. An ecological engineering solution -- 2.3. How much of the extracted water must be reinjected? -- 2.3.1. Percentage efficiency of the water reinjected -- 2.3.2. Efficiency of the reinjection duration -- 2.3.3. Efficiency of the selected method to reinject the water -- 2.4. When and where should the extracted water be reinjected? -- 2.5. Conclusion -- 2.6. References |
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Part 2. Protecting Against Risks, by the Estuary, and for the Estuary -- Chapter 3. Living in a City Exposed to Flood Risk: At What Cost(s)? -- 3.1. Residential location and risk as economic issues -- 3.2. Empirical strategy of the hedonic price model -- 3.3. Bordeaux Métropole study area and data -- 3.4. A multifaceted city -- 3.4.1. Confirmed metropolitan trends coupled with emerging rurbanization -- 3.4.2. A double effect of flood risk on prices -- 3.5. Conclusion -- 3.6. References |
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Chapter 4. The Ecological Restoration of Estuaries: Protection of People and Combating the Erosion of Biodiversity -- 4.1. Habitats, biodiversity and ecosystem services -- 4.2. Causes of the ecological degradation of estuaries -- 4.2.1. Effects of rising sea levels -- 4.2.2. Effects of anthropogenic pressures on biodiversity -- 4.3. Ecological restoration of estuaries for the protection of biodiversity -- 4.3.1. Active and passive restoration -- 4.4. Examples of ecological restoration in estuaries -- 4.4.1. The marshes of Mortagne-sur-Gironde (France) -- 4.4.2. Mondego estuary (Portugal) |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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4.4.3. Scheldt estuary (Belgium) |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Mainguy, Glenn
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De Godoy, Leski Charles
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Salles, Denis
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| ISBN |
9781394225910 |
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1394225911 |
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