Sustainable Groundwater Resource Management
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 May 2021) | Viewed by 10065
Special Issue Editors
Interests: hydrogeology; hydrogeochemistry; stable isotopes; groundwater resource management
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Aquifers represent the main source of potable water in most parts of the world. Over the last decades, due to anthropogenic influence, groundwater quality has been degraded, while the quantity has become very limited in some areas. To enable sustainable management of groundwater resources, i.e., aquifers, the development of new methods and detailed hydrogeology research are required. New knowledge must identify the main environmental problems caused by human influence and propose measures whose implementation will improve the condition of the aquifers. Research related to the groundwater dynamics, groundwater–surface water interaction, groundwater origin, hydrogeochemistry, the difference between natural and humanly conditioned concentrations, soil and groundwater contamination, the establishment of groundwater monitoring, and use of geostatistical methods can give new insights that would enable mitigation of the most pressing environmental problems. From this perspective, the identification of the main sources of contamination, as well as its movement through unsaturated and saturated zones, must not be forgotten. This means that different kinds of numerical models and scenarios should be developed. All these will provide the basis for the creation of integrated decision making and management systems that will consider environmental problems from different perspectives and help stakeholders to implement key measures, which will provide sustainable use of one of the most essential resources for human life.
The scope of the Special Issue is related to the creation and implementation of methods in groundwater research that look at environmental issues from different perspectives to enable sustainable groundwater resources management. In that sense, the focus of this Special Issue is related to different kinds of scientific research that will provide new hydrogeological knowledge:
- Groundwater dynamics;
- Groundwater origin;
- Groundwater and soil contamination;
- Geochemical characteristics of the unsaturated and saturated zone;
- Implementation of different geochemical and geostatistical methods in the hydrogeology research;
- Numerical models of groundwater flow and transport of the contaminants;
- Creation of integrated decision making and management systems.
Dr. Zoran Kovač
Dr. Stanko Ružičić
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainable groundwater management
- groundwater origin and dynamics
- groundwater contamination
- soil contamination
- hydrogeology
- hydrogeochemistry
- geostatistics
- numerical models
- groundwater flow
- contaminant transport
- decision making and management system
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