Groundwater Characterization, Management and Monitoring - Hardcover

Cunha, M. C.; Nunes, L. M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1845641345 ISBN 13: 9781845641344

Publisher: Wit Pr/Computational Mechanics, 2010

Synopsis

This book addresses the theoretical background necessary to accomplish planning and management of groundwater systems, and presents up-to-date applications of the decision-aid techniques in this field. Groundwater systems play an essential role in meeting the ever-increasing demand for water for various purposes. Proper design and management of such systems should therefore be a very important matter of concern, not only to ensure that water will be available in adequate quantity (and quality) to satisfy demands, but also to guarantee that this would be done in an optimal manner from a IWRM perspective. There are many different decisions to be taken: where to locate wells, how much water is to be pumped, remedial strategies to be adopted, water supply structures (especially pumping equipment and pipe networks) to be installed, monitoring networks to be defined, etc.. These decisions must take many constraints into account,including drawdown limitations, flow gradients,and quality standards. Given the uncertainty characterizing the groundwater flow and transport, risk issues have to be considered.
Decision-aid techniques are methodological tools capable of handling simultaneously the various facets characterizing such problems (economic, social, technical, environmental, etc.). Therefore detailed simulation models have to be incorporated into the decision models. The application of simulation-optimization methods to planning and managing groundwater systems has become an area of active research.

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About the Author

Maria da ConceiĆ CUNHA, is a professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, where she teaches Introduction to Environmental Engineering, and Water Management. Her research interests are planning and management of water resources, hydrosystems, and support and decision models. She has written numerous journal articles and conference papers in her field Luis Miguel NUNES, is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Marine and Environmental Sciences at the University of Algarve, Portugal, where he teaches Environmental Engineering. His research is on environmental monitoring optimization; subsurface modeling; soil remediation; risk assessment; environmental impact assessment; water resources management; and optimization in engineering processes, on which he has written numerous research papers.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wit Pr/Computational Mechanics
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1845641345
• ISBN 13: 9781845641344
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 277