Agricultural Groundwater Revolution : Opportunities and Threats to Development

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ISBN: 9781845931728 | 1845931726
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 4/12/2007

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While addressing the issues of using groundwater in agriculture for irrigation in the developing world, this book discusses the problems associated with the degradation and overexploitation of using it. It explores the practiced and potential methods for its management in the context of agricultural development.

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The agricultural groundwater revolution : setting the stage	p. 1
The groundwater economy of South Asia : an assessment of size, significance and socio-ecological impacts	p. 7
The development, challenges and management of groundwater in rural China	p. 37
Rural economic transitions : groundwater use in the Middle East and its environmental consequences	p. 63
Sub-Saharan Africa : opportunistic exploitation	p. 79
Groundwater in Central America : its importance, development and use, with particular reference to its role in irrigated agriculture	p. 100
Community management of groundwater	p. 131
Instruments and institutions for groundwater management	p. 153
When the well runs dry but livelihood continues : adaptive responses to groundwater depletion and strategies for mitigating the associated impacts	p. 173
The groundwater recharge movement in India	p. 195
Energy-irrigation nexus in South Asia : improving groundwater conservation and power sector viability	p. 211
To adapt or not to adapt : the dilemma between long-term resource management and short-term livelihood	p. 243
Lessons from intensive groundwater use in Spain : economic and social benefits and conflicts	p. 266
Groundwater management in the high plains aquifer in the USA : legal problems and innovations	p. 296
Institutional directions in groundwater management in Australia	p. 320
Sharing groundwater information, knowledge and experience on a worldwide scale	p. 362
Groundwater use in a global perspective - can it be managed?	p. 393
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Agricultural Groundwater Revolution : Opportunities and Threats to Development

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