Karst management
Focusing specifically on the management of karst environments, this volume draws together the world's leading karst experts to provide a vital source for the study and management of this unique physical setting. Although karst landscapes cover 12% of the Earth's terrain and provide 25% of the world's drinking water, the resource management of karst environments has only previously received indirect attention. Through a comprehensive approach, Karst Management focuses on engineering issues assoc…
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- Full title :Karst management / Philip E. van Beynen, editor.
Summary
Focusing specifically on the management of karst environments, this volume draws together the world's leading karst experts to provide a vital source for the study and management of this unique physical setting. Although karst landscapes cover 12% of the Earth's terrain and provide 25% of the world's drinking water, the resource management of karst environments has only previously received indirect attention. Through a comprehensive approach, Karst Management focuses on engineering issues associated with surface karst such as quarries, dams, and agriculture, subsurface topics such as the management of groundwater, show caves, cave biota, and geo-archaeology projects. Chapters that focus on karst as an integrated system look at IUCN World Heritage sites, national parks, policy and regulation, measuring systematic disturbance, information management, and public environmental education. The text incorporates the most up-to-date research from leading karst scientists. This volume provides important perspectives for university students, educators, geoengineers, resource managers, and planners who are interested in or work with this unique physical landscape.
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- Publication Date:©2011.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Springer
- Place of Publication:Dordrecht
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2011.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xii, 489 pages) : : color illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9789400712072, 9400712073
- DOI:10.1007/978-94-007-1207-2
- oclc:ocn745005153
- LC Classification:GB600
- Dewey Decimal:551.44/7
Table of Contents
pt. 1. Management of surface karst -- pt. 2. Management of subterranean karst -- pt. 3. Management of karst aquifers -- pt. 4. Management of karst regions as integrated units.
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