ABSTRACT
This volume offers detailed comparisons and validations of different methods of assessing groundwater vulnerability (DRASTIC, GOD, PI, RTt, AVI, SINTACS, COP). It contains new aspects of vulnerability assessment for the evaluation of coastal aquifer vulnerability and aquifer vulnerability to methane gas leakage from shale gas wells. The book also contains the results of studies on intrinsic and specific vulnerability assessment (migration of antibiotics and nitrate, groundwatersurface water interaction), with examples of the different national approaches to groundwater vulnerability mapping in Poland, Ireland, Italy and elsewhere. There are 15 chapters derived from two IAH conferences held in Ustron´, Poland in 2015 and 2018.
The book is valuable for those interested in groundwater vulnerability, in risk assessment, and in environmental issues. It is aimed at land use planners, water managers, the environmental industry, regional and local environmental protection councils and students studying hydrogeology and environmental sciences.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |51 pages
New approaches to groundwater vulnerability
chapter Chapter 2|14 pages
Assessment of the intrinsic vulnerability of the Rhine-Meuse basin limestone aquifers
part |57 pages
Factors affecting vulnerability assessment – from scientific concept to practical application
chapter Chapter 7|9 pages
Nitrate migration in the regional groundwater recharge zone (Lwówek region, Poland)
part |56 pages
Comparison and validation of different methods of groundwater vulnerability assessment for different groundwater systems
chapter Chapter 9|13 pages
Groundwater vulnerability and risk assessment in Kaduna metropolis, northwest Nigeria
chapter Chapter 10|11 pages
Evaluation of the comparison of four groundwater vulnerability methodologies
chapter Chapter 11|28 pages
Vulnerability assessment of the Karst aquifer feeding Pertuso spring in Central Italy
part |40 pages
Groundwater vulnerability mapping – examples of different national approaches