Coastal Aquifer Management-Monitoring, Modeling, and Case Studies [Hardcover]

Alexander H.D. Cheng (Editor), Driss Ouazar (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 18, 2003 | ISBN-10: 156670605X | ISBN-13: 978-1566706056 | Edition: 1

Approximately 70% of the world's population lives in coastal areas, and the majority of these people depend on coastal aquifers for freshwater. The fragility of these aquifers and their sensitivity to human activity demand informed, competent management to guarantee their survival. Significant knowledge and new technologies related to the subject have accumulated in the last two decades, and a need has emerged for a comprehensive reference that gathers and disseminates crucial information to engineering practitioners and policymakers.

Coastal Aquifer Management-Monitoring, Modeling, and Case Studies provides the most advanced and up-to-date methods and tools for the study and protection of coastal aquifers. This "how-to" volume presents a worldwide perspective with contributions from an international panel of experts. They address topics such as geohydrology, optimization, uncertainty analysis, and GIS as they relate to geographically-specific case studies; knowledge from these examples can be applied to aquifer issues in other regions.

A companion CD-ROM supplements the text with programs and graphics, making this overview an indispensable reference and tool for the analysis of critical freshwater resources.

Editorial Reviews

Review

This book provides the most advanced and up-to-date methods and tools for the study and protection of coastal aquifers. … [A]n indispensable reference and tool for the analysis of critical freshwater resources.
- Journal of the American Water Resources Association, Aug. 2005

I would recommend this book for practitioners who may be looking for guidelines to get started on a project. A major strength of the book is that it provides a number of good references. … Everyone involved in coastal zone management should find something of use in this book.
- Journal of Environmental Quality, Vol. 33, Nov/Dec 2004

Product Details

• Hardcover: 296 pages
• Publisher: CRC Press; 1 edition (December 18, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 156670605X
• ISBN-13: 978-1566706056
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,774,410 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Alexander H.-D. Cheng is Dean of Engineering at the University of Mississippi. He obtained his B.S. degree from the National Taiwan University, M.S. from the University of Missouri--Columbia, and Ph.D. from Cornell University, all in Civil Engineering. He was a faculty member at Cornell University, Columbia University, and the University of Delaware, before he joined the University of Mississippi in 2001 as Chair of Civil Engineering Department, and became Dean in 2009.

His research interests include nanomechanics, meshless method, poromechanics, and groundwater flow. He is the Co-Editor of the journal Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, and was an associate editor for the Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the book series Progress in Water Resources, WIT Press. He has authored three books, and edited four specialty books, plus seven conference proceedings. He has published more than one hundred journal papers. He was the co-founder of two conference series: the Biot Conference on Poromechanics, and the International Conference on Saltwater Intrusion and Coastal Aquifers. He was the recipient of the Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize from ASCE, and the Basic Research Award from the U.S. National Committee for Rock Mechanics, National Research Council. He currently serves as the Vice President of Engineering Mechanics Institute, American Society of Civil Engineers. He was formerly the Vice President for Academic Affairs of the American Institute of Hydrology. He is also on the Board of Directors of the Wessex Institute of Technology.