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The Guidebook was originally Published in 1984 by Unesco as one of the contributions to the International Hydrological Programme. Although the IHP is a scientific and educational programme, Unesco has been aware of the need to direct its activities toward the practical solutions of the world's water resources problems. The Guidebook was intended as one of the tools to help provide for a multidisciplinary approach to the assessment, planning, and rational management of water resources. Written in 1984, the Guidebook provides an overview of case studies illustrating the major occurrences of land subsidence due to ground-water withdrawal throughout the world at the time of its publication. But probably it's most enduring contributions are the chapters on field measurement of deformation and the mechanics of land subsidence. These chapters provide a basic understanding of subsidence that is valuable for both resource managers and scientists. Published more than 15 years ago, the Guidebook has enjoyed enduring demand. It has long since been out of print, but now is available in electronic form. Click here to download Guidebook.zip, an 11 MB compressed file in Winzip format. The uncompressed file is in portable document format (.pdf), and can be viewed using Adobe Acrobat Reader®*. Interested in only a part of the document? Check out the PDF files available below. NOTE!  There have been some problems reported with illustrations not printing from the PDF document. If you encounter such problems please notify krprince@usgs.gov.

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