Groundwater for sustainable livelihoods and equitable growth
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Informa UK Limited
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Groundwater for Sustainable Livelihoods and Equitable Growth explores how groundwater, often invisibly, improves peoples’ lives and livelihoods. This unique collection of 19 studies captures experiences of groundwater making a difference in 16 countries in Africa, South America and Asia. Such studies are rarely documented and this book provides a rich new collection of interdisciplinary analysis. The book is published in colour and includes many original diagrams and photographs.
Spring water, wells or boreholes have provided safe drinking water and reliable water for irrigation or industry for millennia. However, the hidden nature of groundwater often means that it’s important role both historically and in the present is overlooked. This collection helps fill this knowledge gap, providing a diverse set of new studies encompassing different perspectives and geographies. Different interdisciplinary methodologies are described that can help understand linkages between groundwater, livelihoods and growth, and how these links can be threatened by over-use, contamination, and ignorance.
Written for a worldwide audience of practitioners, academics and students with backgrounds in geology, engineering or environmental sciences; Groundwater for Sustainable Livelihoods and Equitable Growth is essential reading for those involved in groundwater and international development.
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groundwater management, sustainable livelihoods, equity, water resources, water security, groundwater recharge, groundwater extraction, groundwater irrigation, small scale systems, water use, conjunctive use, surface water, water scarcity, water governance, water policies, legal frameworks, water supply, water harvesting, river basins, watersheds, water springs, wells, alluvial aquifers, hydrogeology, climate change, resilience, adaptation, strategies, urban development, landscape conservation, periurban areas, rural areas, villages, coastal areas, stubble burning, rice, smallholders, farmers, households, socioeconomic development, case studies