Groundwater Vulnerability to Pollution Assessment

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to participate in this Special Issue, which will focus primarily on the study and the application of the Groundwater Vulnerability and Risk to Pollution assessment and mapping.

Coastal and inland porous, karst and fissured carbonate rock aquifers are threatened by the groundwater pollution of intense anthropogenic activities. Agriculture, industry and urbanization result to be the human pressures, responsible for the evident change in the groundwater quality. This trend is expected to continue in the future, due to increased unplanned of the anthropogenic activities and water exploitation also under the climatic change impacts. The assessement and mapping of the aquifer vulnerability to pollution and related risk has been recognized from the scientific community as the most significant prevention tools for groundwater protection and management strategies.

In the last decades, the aquifer vulnerability and risk to pollution has been assess using several different methods and techniques based on parametric methods, fuzzy logic algorithms, multi criteria decision-making models, statistical analysis and simulation modelling.

This Special Issue aims to collect original contributions related to the application of the various methods and models for Groundwater Vulnerability to pollution assessment related to the Groundwater quality, the prevention of the Pollution risk, the Sustainable groundwater management and the Climate change effects.

Prof. Dr. Francesco Sdao
Dr. Filomena Canora
Guest Editors

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