The agricultural groundwater revolution :
The agricultural groundwater revolution : opportunities and threats to development /
edited by Mark Giordano and Karen G. Villholth, International Water Management Institute, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
- 1 online resource (xii, 419 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps, charts.
- Comprehensive assessment of water management in agriculture series ; 3 .
- Comprehensive assessment of water management in agriculture series ; 3. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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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 agricultural water management in the context of agricultural development. The book is divided into three parts plus two final chapters. Part I provides regional overviews of agricultural groundwater systems covering much of the developing world. The regions include 'traditional' use areas such as South Asia, China and the Middle East/North Africa where groundwater already contributes substantially to existing agricultural economies. It also includes two areas, sub-Saharan Africa and Central America. Part II presents an overview of three major governance paradigms that have been, or might be, employed to address challenges facing groundwater management. Part III provides a series of case studies that examine how these governance paradigms have actually functioned on the ground. A chapter concludes the book with n overview of the state of affairs in agricultural water use in the developing world, the opportunities and threats for the resource to continue contributing t global food supply and to lifting farmers out of poverty and into the future, agricultural or not, tat they most desire.
Groundwater--Management.
Water-supply, Agricultural.
Agriculture (General)
Water Resources.
Agricultural development.
Groundwater.
Water management.
Water resources.
Water use.
Electronic books.
S494.5.W3 / A324 2007eb
333.91/3
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Access limited to subscribing institution.
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 agricultural water management in the context of agricultural development. The book is divided into three parts plus two final chapters. Part I provides regional overviews of agricultural groundwater systems covering much of the developing world. The regions include 'traditional' use areas such as South Asia, China and the Middle East/North Africa where groundwater already contributes substantially to existing agricultural economies. It also includes two areas, sub-Saharan Africa and Central America. Part II presents an overview of three major governance paradigms that have been, or might be, employed to address challenges facing groundwater management. Part III provides a series of case studies that examine how these governance paradigms have actually functioned on the ground. A chapter concludes the book with n overview of the state of affairs in agricultural water use in the developing world, the opportunities and threats for the resource to continue contributing t global food supply and to lifting farmers out of poverty and into the future, agricultural or not, tat they most desire.
Groundwater--Management.
Water-supply, Agricultural.
Agriculture (General)
Water Resources.
Agricultural development.
Groundwater.
Water management.
Water resources.
Water use.
Electronic books.
S494.5.W3 / A324 2007eb
333.91/3