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What are the regional differences in stormwater and wastewater management technologies to urbanization? How can wetland extent and function be incorporated as an integral part of urban infrastructure systems, including effects on groundwater level? The Effect of Urbanization on Groundwater: An Engineering Case-Based Approach to Sustainable Development addresses these and a number of other key questions involving all phases of impact from the interactions among energy, environment, ecology, and socioeconomic paradigms in human society. To promote the concept of sustainable management, this unique book presents and applies sustainable systems engineering technologies and states the challenges of and opportunities for science, technology, and policy related to sustainable management of water. This book is organized into four parts: water supply and pollution prevention; storm water management with regional infiltration technologies; wastewater treatment and disposal with nutrient removal; and low impact development with landscape architecture technologies. These thematic areas cover the aspects from the fundamental theory to physical, chemical, and biological processes to the coupled human and natural environment, and to the representation of simulated evolutionary pathways. The Effect of Urbanization on Groundwater: An Engineering Case-Based Approach to Sustainable Development is timely and makes a strong case for sustainable development and management. It will help expose just how sensitive key water quantity and quality management targets are to urban development.
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The subtitle of this edited volume explains its emphasis: An Engineering Case-Based Approach for Sustainable Development. It aims to present and apply "sustainable systems engineering technologies" to the sensitivity of water quality and quantity to urban development. This collection of research papers with many case studies addresses a variety of topics involving contamination of groundwater. Many, though not all, of the cases are localized in Florida. Although some are relatively specific to that location, such as an analysis of karst springsheds common there, most cases are broadly relevant. Other topics include riverbank filtration, functionalized filtration in stormwater ponds, use of recirculating septic systems for nutrient removal, chemical changes after infiltration of treated wastewater, and several studies of infiltration technologies. The authors are mostly academics, but there are also contributors from government and private companies. The work will be useful to readers with similar affiliations who are interested in research and policy related to groundwater protection. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers/faculty, and professionals. D. A. Vaccari Stevens Institute of Technology
