Table of Contents:
  • General introduction : the need to protect groundwater
  • Science-policy integration for common approaches linked to groundwater management in Europe
  • Transferring scientific knowledge to societal use : clue from the AQUATERRA integrated project
  • Groundwater management and planning : how can economics help?
  • European Union groundwater policy
  • US drinking water regulation : the ground water rule
  • Principles of the common implementation strategy of the WFD : the groundwater Working Group
  • The Pilot River Basin network : examples of groundwater-related activities
  • The Harmoni-CA initiative
  • Linking public participation to adaptive management
  • Groundwater characterisation and risk assessment in the context of the EU Water Framework Directive
  • Groundwater quality background levels
  • Groundwater age and quality
  • Characterisation of groundwater contamination and natural attenuation potential at multiple scales
  • Improved risk assessment of contaminant spreading in fractured underground reservoirs
  • Groundwater risk assessment at contaminated sites (GRACOS) : test methods and modelling approaches
  • INCORE : integrated concept for groundwater remediation
  • Groundwater monitoring in the policy context
  • Screening methods for groundwater monitoring
  • Quality assurance for groundwater monitoring
  • Prevention and reduction of groundwater pollution at contaminated megasites : integrated management strategy and its application on megasite cases
  • Forecasting natural attenuation as a risk-based groundwater remediation strategy
  • Diffuse groundwater quality impacts from agricultural land-use : management and policy implications of scientific realities
  • Integrated management principles for groundwater in the WFD context
  • System approach to environmentally acceptable farming
  • WATCH, water catchment areas : tools for management and control of hazardous compounds
  • Methodology for the establishment of groundwater environmental quality standards
  • Pesticides in European groundwaters : biogeochemical processes, contamination status and results from a case study
  • Evaluation of the quantitative status of groundwater-surface water interaction at a national scale
  • Conceptual models in river basin management
  • Modelling reactive transport of diffuse contaminants : identifying the groundwater contribution to surface water quality
  • SNOWMAN : an alternative for transnational research funding
  • Incorporation of groundwater ecology in environmental policy
  • Towards a science-policy interface (WISE-RTD) in support of groundwater management.