Groundwater for sustainable livelihoods and equitable growth
Creators: name: Re, V.
name: Manzione, R. L.
name: Abiye, T. A.
name: Mukherji, Aditi
name: MacDonald, A.
name: Re, V.
name: Manzione, R. L.
name: Abiye, T. A.
name: Mukherji, Aditi
name: MacDonald, A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Farm Management
subject: Groundwater management
subject: Sustainable livelihoods
subject: Equity
subject: Water resources
subject: Water security
subject: Groundwater recharge
subject: Groundwater extraction
subject: Groundwater irrigation
subject: Small scale systems
subject: Water use
subject: Conjunctive use
subject: Surface water
subject: Water scarcity
subject: Water governance
subject: Water policies
subject: Legal frameworks
subject: Water supply
subject: Water harvesting
subject: River basins
subject: Watersheds
subject: Water springs
subject: Wells
subject: Alluvial aquifers
subject: Hydrogeology
subject: Climate change
subject: Resilience
subject: Adaptation
subject: Strategies
subject: Urban development
subject: Landscape conservation
subject: Periurban areas
subject: Rural areas
subject: Villages
subject: Coastal areas
subject: Stubble burning
subject: Rice
subject: Smallholders
subject: Farmers
subject: Households
subject: Socioeconomic development
subject: Case studies
subject: Africa
subject: South America
subject: Asia
subject: Sahel
subject: Niger
subject: Ghana
subject: Togo
subject: Ethiopia
subject: Zimbabwe
subject: Chad
subject: Malawi
subject: United Republic of Tanzania
subject: Libya
subject: India
subject: Indonesia
subject: Myanmar
subject: Lao People's Democratic Republic
subject: Brazil
subject: West Bengal
subject: Haryana
subject: Gunungsewu Karst Area
subject: Vientiane Plain
subject: Shan State
subject: Techiman Municipality
subject: Rio de Janeiro
subject: Lome
subject: Harare
subject: Tigray
subject: Al Jabal Al Akhdar
subject: Kachchh
subject: Mato Grosso do Sul
subject: Taunggyi
subject: Ekxang
subject: Sume Alluvial Aquifer
subject: Tekeze River Basin
subject: Lake Chad Basin
subject: Great Ruaha River Catchment
subject: Guandu River Basin

description: Groundwater for Sustainable Livelihoods and Equitable Growth explores how groundwater, often invisibly, improves peoples’ lives and livelihoods. This unique collection of 19 studies captures experiences of groundwater making a difference in 16 countries in Africa, South America and Asia. Such studies are rarely documented and this book provides a rich new collection of interdisciplinary analysis. The book is published in colour and includes many original diagrams and photographs. Spring water, wells or boreholes have provided safe drinking water and reliable water for irrigation or industry for millennia. However, the hidden nature of groundwater often means that it’s important role both historically and in the present is overlooked. This collection helps fill this knowledge gap, providing a diverse set of new studies encompassing different perspectives and geographies. Different interdisciplinary methodologies are described that can help understand linkages between groundwater, livelihoods and growth, and how these links can be threatened by over-use, contamination, and ignorance. Written for a worldwide audience of practitioners, academics and students with backgrounds in geology, engineering or environmental sciences; Groundwater for Sustainable Livelihoods and Equitable Growth is essential reading for those involved in groundwater and international development.