New Approaches Characterizing Groundwater Flow Proceedings of the XXXI IAH Congress, Munich, Germany, 10-14 September 2001

Research on the fundamental processes of flow, solute transport and immobilization, and forced degradation of contaminants in groundwater needs to be further advanced to enhance and guarantee groundwater availability. In line with this, current research has seen a transition to more engineering-related topics. These proceedings feature both current and future research on both traditional and tracer techniques. Engineering-related tools apply to advanced methods of groundwater protection and management, and reveal more about the elastic or rigid responses of subsurface systems to contaminant inputs. The proceedings cover groundwater exploitation, pollution, management and protection, geophysical and experimental works, modelling of flow and transport and the appropriate use of environmental and artificial tracers. The scale of research ranges from the laboratory to integrated field studies.