Download or read book Managed Aquifer Recharge for Water Resilience written by Peter Dillon and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a hard copy of the editorial and all the papers in a Special Issue of the peer-reviewed open access journal ‘Water’ on the theme ‘Managed Aquifer Recharge for Water Resilience’. Managed aquifer recharge (MAR) is the purposeful recharge of water to aquifers for subsequent recovery or environmental benefit. MAR is increasingly used to make water supplies resilient to drought, climate change and deteriorating water quality, and to protect ecosystems from declining groundwater levels. Global MAR has grown exponentially to 10 cu.km/year and will increase ten-fold within a few decades. Well informed hydrogeologists, engineers and water quality scientists are needed to ensure that this investment is effective in meeting increasingly pressing needs. This compilation contains lessons from many examples of existing projects, including several national and continental summaries. It also addresses the elements essential for identifying and advancing projects such as mapping aquifer suitability and opportunities, policy matters, operational issues, and some innovations in MAR methods and monitoring. This collection exemplifies the state of progress in the science and practice of MAR and is intended to be useful, at least to water managers, water utilities, agricultural water users and urban planners, to facilitate water resilience through new MAR projects.

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Download or read book Global Warming and Climate Change 2 Vols written by V I Grover and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 1172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now as we stand at the crossroads, the steps taken by national governments, business communities and others involved in the negotiations will determine which path we will take as a world community, to mitigate and to adapt to climate change. As discussed in the book, in the coming years it is more politics than policies that will determine the way

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Download or read book Changements climatiques et biodiversit du Qu bec written by Dominique Berteaux and published by PUQ. This book was released on 2014-01-29T00:00:00-05:00 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les changements climatiques sont une question environnementale majeure de ce siècle. Afin de comprendre et de prévoir leurs effets sur la biodiversité du Québec, des climatologues, des biologistes, des naturalistes et des gestionnaires de notre patrimoine naturel ont collaboré durant cinq années pour produire cet ouvrage.Ils ont analysé les répartitions de près de 1 000 espèces d’animaux et de plantes et ont tenté d’anticiper les changements potentiels de ces répartitions pour la fin du xxie siècle. En utilisant des approches scientifiques parmi les plus perfectionnées ainsi que des modèles climatiques et des informations sur la biodiversité parmi les plus à jour, ils ont dressé un tableau saisissant des changements profonds qui sont anticipés sur le territoire québécois.Les premiers chapitres présentent avec clarté le patrimoine naturel et les climats du Québec. Le lecteur est ensuite amené, à partir de résultats de modélisation publiés ici pour la première fois, à se projeter dans l’avenir pour entrevoir l’évolution du patrimoine naturel québécois. Les conséquences des recherches sur la gestion des espèces, des aires protégées et des écosystèmes sont enfin exposées.Les biologistes, les naturalistes, les techniciens en écologie, les gestionnaires de la faune et des parcs, les ingénieurs et les techniciens forestiers, les professionnels et les militants de la conservation de la nature, les décideurs, ainsi que les étudiants et enseignants en biologie trouveront tous dans ce livre la matière à d’intenses réflexions. Les points à retenir sont résumés, des dizaines de cartes en couleur sont présentées et de multiples figures illustrent les messages importants. Un site Web présente des milliers de cartes complémentaires et permet de télécharger toutes les figures du livre.

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