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Copyright © 2021 Giuseppe Gambolati and Pietro Teatini (The Authors)

Published by the Groundwater Project, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, 2021.

Gambolati, G., and Teatini, P.
Land Subsidence and its Mitigation / Giuseppe Gambolati and Pietro Teatini – Guelph, Ontario, Canada, 2021.
92 pages

ISBN: 978-1-77470-001-3

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Citation: Gambolati, Giuseppe, and Pietro Teatini, 2021, Land Subsidence and its Mitigation, The Groundwater Project, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

Topic Leads: John Cherry
Board: John Cherry, Paul Hsieh, Ineke Kalwij, Stephen Moran, Everton de Oliveira and Eileen Poeter
Steering Committee: Allan Freeze, Paul Hsieh, Ineke Kalwij, Douglas Mackay, Stephen Moran, Everton de Oliveira, Beth Parker, Eileen Poeter, Yin Fan Reinfelder, Warren Wood and Yan Zheng.
Cover Image: Photos showing consequences of land subsidence and ground ruptures due to groundwater pumping. Top: the seafront of Pluit district, Jakarta in Indonesia, sited a few meters below the sea level and protected by the seawater through a concrete wall that needs to be raised every few years to counteract a land subsidence of 10-20 cm/year due to aquifer overexploitation (photo by Pietro Teatini, September 20, 2019). Bottom: a large earth fissure system at Siphon Draw, Apache Junction, Arizona, USA due to deformation of aquifer system accompanying groundwater pumping (photo by Pietro Teatini, November 6, 2019).