A Land Surface Zoning Approach Based on Three-Component Risk Criteria for Groundwater Quality Protection

Water Resources Management

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1677-1697

  Fadlelmawla, A Ahmed ^a   Fayad, Mahmoud ^a   El Gamily, Hamdi ^a   Rashid, Tarik ^a   Mukhopadhyay, Amitabha ^a   Kotwicki, Vincent ^a  

^a KUWAIT INSTITUTE FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

GIS; Groundwater value; Hazard ranking; Kuwait; Land use; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES; BASIC ELEMENTS; CORRECTIVE ACTIONS; DECISION MAKING TOOL; DRASTIC MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES; GIS; GROUND WATER PROTECTION; GROUNDWATER QUALITY; HAZARD MAP; HAZARD RANKING; KUWAIT; LAND SURFACE; LAND-USE RESTRICTIONS; POTENTIAL MONITORING; RELATIVE VALUE; RISK CRITERIA; SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES; THREE-COMPONENT; UNSATURATED ZONE; VULNERABILITY;

DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS; GROUNDWATER; HAZARDS; LAND USE; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; WATER QUALITY; ZONING;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

GIS; GROUNDWATER; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; LAND SURFACE; LAND USE; MAPPING; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; VADOSE ZONE; VULNERABILITY; ZONING SYSTEM;

KUWAIT [MIDDLE EAST];

EID: 79952698015     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-010-9767-9     Document Type: Article

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