Reconciling groundwater storage depletion due to pumping with sustainability

Sustainability

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 3418-3435

  van der Gun, Jac ^a   Lipponen, Annukka ^b  

^a Independent hydrogeologist   (Netherlands)

^b United Nations Economic Commission for Europe   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Environmental impacts; Groundwater development; Groundwater resources management; Groundwater storage depletion; Socio economic impacts; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857581971     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su2113418     Document Type: Article

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