Towards sustainable groundwater use: Setting long-term goals, backcasting, and managing adaptively

Ground Water

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 19-26

  Gleeson, Tom ^a,h   Alley, William M ^b   Allen, Diana M ^c   Sophocleous, Marios A ^d   Zhou, Yangxiao ^e   Taniguchi, Makoto ^f   Vandersteen, Jonathan ^g  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^e UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^f RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITY AND NATURE   (Japan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; BACKCASTING; CASE HISTORY; CRITICAL ISSUES; ECOLOGICAL INTEGRITY; FUTURE GENERATIONS; HYDROGEOLOGICAL; INTERGENERATIONAL EQUITY; LONG-TERM GOALS; LONG-TERM PROBLEMS; SUSTAINABLE GROUNDWATER; TIME HORIZONS; WATER QUANTITIES;

AQUIFERS; ECOLOGY; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDROGEOLOGY; SURFACE WATERS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

WELL WATER;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; AQUIFER; BACKSCATTER; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATER USE;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; WATER WELLS;

EID: 84855327414     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: 17456584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2011.00825.x     Document Type: Article

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