The agricultural groundwater revolution : opportunities and threats to development /
This book addresses the issues of using groundwater in agricultural production in the developing world. By addressing the problems associated with the degradation and overexploitation of the groundwater resources, it explores the practiced and potential methods that meet the massive challenges of ag...
| Format: | eBook |
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| Language: | English |
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Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK :
CABI, in association with International Water Management Institute,
2007.
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| Series: | Comprehensive assessment of water management in agriculture series ;
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Table of Contents:
- The Agricultural Groundwater Revolution : Setting the Stage / Mark Giordano and Karen G. Villholth
- The Groundwater Economy of South Asia : An Assessment of Size, Significance and Socio-ecological Impacts / Tushaar Shah
- The Development, Challenges and Management of Groundwater in Rural China / Jinxia Wang, Jikun Huang, Amelia Blanke, Qiuqiong Huang and Scott Rozelle
- Rural Economic Transitions : Groundwater Use in the Middle East and Its Environmental Consequences / J.A. Tony Allan
- Sub-Saharan Africa : Opportunistic Exploitation / Mutsa Masiyandima and Mark F. Giordano
- Groundwater in Central America : Its Importance, Development and Use, with Particular Reference to Its Role in Irrigated Agriculture / Maureen Ballestero, Virginia Reyes and Yamileth Astorga
- Community Management of Groundwater / Edella Schlager
- Instruments and Institutions for Groundwater Management / Karin Erika Kemper
- When the Well Runs Dry but Livelihood Continues : Adaptive Responses to Groundwater Depletion and Strategies for Mitigating the Associated Impacts / Marcus Moench
- The Groundwater Recharge Movement in India / Ramaswamy Sakthivadivel
- Energy-Irrigation Nexus in South Asia : Improving Groundwater Conservation and Power Sector Viability / Tushaar Shah, Christopher Scott, Avinash Kishore and Abhishek Sharma
- To Adapt or Not to Adapt : The Dilemma between Long-term Resource Management and Short-term Livelihood / Srinivas Mudrakartha
- Lessons from Intensive Groundwater Use In Spain : Economic and Social Benefits and Conflicts / M. Ramón Llamas and Alberto Garrido
- Groundwater Management in the High Plains Aquifer in the USA : Legal Problems and Innovations / John C. Peck
- Institutional Directions in Groundwater Management in Australia / Hugh Turral and Imogen Fullagar
- Sharing Groundwater Information, Knowledge and Experience on a Worldwide Scale / Jac A.M. van der Gun
- Groundwater Use in a Global Perspective : Can It be Managed? / Karen G. Villholth and Mark Giordano.