The aim of the book is to document for the first time the dimensions and requirements of good integrated groundwater management. Groundwater management is a formidable challenge and should be one of humanity’s foremost priorities. Given past and current rates of over-extraction, groundwater is largely a non-renewable resource in many parts of the world. The issue is how we manage this crucial resource in an acceptable way that considers the sustainability of the resource for future generations and the socioeconomic and environmental impacts. In many cases this means restoring a degree of equilibrium to at-risk aquifers.There are many, often-interrelated dimensions to managing groundwater effectively. It is important to get the science and social science right, to work on, and with, the policy framework, and to ensure the wider community, and stakeholders in areas of concern, support and participate in making the challenging decisions. Generally speaking, pursuing an integrated approach will mean considering the wider context of surface water and catchment management.  Each chapter in this book makes a clear distinction between the methods currently practiced for groundwater Management and those of IWRM. The book provides an overview of the dimensions and requirements of groundwater management, from an international perspective, i.e. what practitioners and researchers need to bear in mind about groundwater management as the preservation of a shared global resource. The book is divided into five sections, each of which addresses concepts, approaches and difficulties in the application of methods for the management of groundwater. Section 1 highlights the scale of the groundwater issues internationally: the level of exploitation and the resultant pressure quantitatively and qualitatively. Section 2 discusses groundwater governance issues with regard to  strategies, policies and institutions for integrated water Management while Section 3 discusses biophysical aspects including the capacity and role of our hydroecological and hydrogeological science and the need for ecological assessments. Section 4 particularly discusses water quality concerns and its management within the broader as well as within the social economic context. Section 5 deals with the current state of modeling and decision-making support system and how to deal with data and uncertainty issues.

Philosopher, physicist, and anarchist, Paul Feyerabend was one of the most unconventional scholars of his time. In this recently rediscovered volume, which covers everything from the earliest cave paintings to 20th century atomic physics, Feyerabend explores the philosophy of science in his familiar polemical and extraordinarily learned manner.

In New York Times bestselling author Andrew Gross's propulsive thriller, set amid the drought-stricken oil country of Colorado's beautiful high plains, Ty Hauck makes his long-awaited return rallying beaten-down farmers and ranchers against a giant energy company in a deadly confrontation involving murder, retaliation, and cover-up.

Leading a tour down the rapids outside Aspen, Colorado, whitewater guide Dani Whalen comes upon the dead body of a close friend. Trey Watkins's death is ruled an accident. Finding evidence that seems to back up her suspicions that it wasn't, she takes her case to Wade Dunn, the local police chief and her ex-stepfather, with whom she shares some unresolved history. Wade insists the case is closed, but Rooster, a hot air balloon operator in town, claims he saw something from the air she should know. When he suddenly dies in a fiery crash, Dani threatens to take her suspicions public, goading Wade into tossing her in jail.

When an old friend contacts Ty Hauck and says his daughter is in trouble, he doesn't hesitate to get involved. Together, the two step into a sinister scheme running deep beneath the surface of a quiet, Colorado town that has made a deal with the devil to survive. But in the square off between giant energy companies and beaten-down ranchers and farmers, one resource is even more valuable in this drought-stricken region than oil. They both will kill for it—water.

One Mile Under is a thrilling rapid run of hair-raising twists and unforeseen turns set against one of the most provocative environmental issues of our time.