Assessment of Aquifer Vulnerability in an Agricultural Area in Spain Using the DRASTIC Model

Environmental Forensics

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 356-373

  Bartzas, Georgios ^a   Zaharaki, Dimitra ^b   Hernández Fernández, Ma Teresa ^c   Moreno Ortego, Jose Luis ^c   Komnitsas, Konstantinos ^b  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c RESEARCH GROUP ON QUALITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Barrax; DRASTIC; groundwater; risk; vulnerability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947443071     PISSN: 15275922     EISSN: 15275930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15275922.2015.1091407     Document Type: Article

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