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Sustainable Management of Groundwater

Stephen Foster, John Chilton

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Abstract This chapter first provides a concise account of the basic principles and concepts underlying scientific groundwater management, and it then both summarises the policy approach to developing an adaptive scheme of management and protection for groundwater resources that is appropriately integrated across relevant sectors and assesses the governance needs, roles and planning requirements to implement the selected policy approach.

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Key concepts: Groundwater resources, Corporate governance, Groundwater, Environmental planning, Scheme (mathematics), Adaptive management, Business, Environmental resource management