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Economic Failure Plagues Developing Countries Irrigation
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Book Synopsis Sustainable Irrigation Management, Technologies and Policies II by : Y. Villacampa Esteve
Download or read book Sustainable Irrigation Management, Technologies and Policies II written by Y. Villacampa Esteve and published by WIT Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains most of the papers presented at the Second International Conference on Sustainable Irrigation Management, Technologies and Policies, held at the University of Alicante in 2008. The meeting follows the success of the first Conference which was organised in Bologna in 2006.
Book Synopsis Reforming Institutions in Water Resource Management by : Lin Crase
Download or read book Reforming Institutions in Water Resource Management written by Lin Crase and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 2009 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resolving these problems is crucial for the future.
Book Synopsis Incentives and Instruments for Sustainable Irrigation by : Henning Bjornlund
Download or read book Incentives and Instruments for Sustainable Irrigation written by Henning Bjornlund and published by WIT Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: or impeded the successful outcomes." --Book Jacket.
Book Synopsis Decentralization and Coordination of Water Resource Management by : Douglas D. Parker
Download or read book Decentralization and Coordination of Water Resource Management written by Douglas D. Parker and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-07-08 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Centralized, top-down management of water resources through regulations has created unnecessary economic burdens upon users. More flexible decentralized controls through the use of economic incentives have gained acceptance over the past decade. The theme of this book is the increasing efforts throughout water-scarce regions to rely upon economic incentives and decentralized mechanisms for efficient water management and allocation. The book begins with a section of introductory chapters describing water systems, institutions, constraints, and similarities in the following regions: Israel and the Middle East, Turkey, California, Florida, and Australia. Four of these regions face similar climates with wet winters and dry summers. Florida has a more even seasonal distribution of rainfall, yet it uses similar management strategies in controlling groundwater demand and water quality. The book concludes with a section on water management case studies. These case studies examine issues of conflict related to both water quality and water quantity. While the case studies address both international and intranational concerns in specific regions of the world, they portray broad principles that are applicable to many regions.
Book Synopsis The Use of Economic Valuation in Environmental Policy by : Phoebe Koundouri
Download or read book The Use of Economic Valuation in Environmental Policy written by Phoebe Koundouri and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-06-11 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Use of Economics in Implementing European Environmental Policy is a timely exploation of the use of the Choice Experiment and Contingent valuation methods in different parts of Europe in order to inform environmental policy. Koundouri focuses predominantly on water, wetland, forest and agricultural management and her book includes results, both methodological and empirical, from a recent research project.
Book Synopsis Pricing Irrigation Water by : Yacov Tsur
Download or read book Pricing Irrigation Water written by Yacov Tsur and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As globalization links economies, the value of a country's irrigation water becomes increasingly sensitive to competitive forces in world markets. Water policy at the national and regional levels will need to accommodate these forces or water is likely to become undervalued. The inefficient use of this resource will lessen a country's comparative advantage in world markets and slow its transition to higher incomes, particularly in rural households. While professionals widely agree on what constitutes sound water resource management, they have not yet reached a consensus on the best ways of implementing policies. Policymakers have considered pricing water - a debated intervention - in many variations. Setting the price 'right,' some say, may guide different types of users in efficient water use by sending a signal about the value of this resource. Aside from efficiency, itself an important policy objective, equity, accessibility, and implementation costs associated with the right pricing must be considered. Focusing on the examples of China, Mexico, Morocco, South Africa, and Turkey, Pricing Irrigation Water provides a clear methodology for studying farm-level demand for irrigation water. This book is the first to link the macroeconomics of policies affecting trade to the microeconomics of water demand for irrigation and, in the case of Morocco, to link these forces to the creation of a water user-rights market. This type of market reform, the contributors argue, will result in growing economic benefits to both rural and urban households.
Book Synopsis Decentralizing Water Resources Management by : K. William Easter
Download or read book Decentralizing Water Resources Management written by K. William Easter and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1993 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Private sector involvement and user participation in water resource management, if properly structured, can provide incentives needed to stabilize and improve the efficiency of irrigation and water supply systems. Cost recovery is excellent in many projects in which water management and operations and maintenance are entrusted to water users.
Book Synopsis Water Development and Poverty Reduction by : I.H. Olcay Ünver
Download or read book Water Development and Poverty Reduction written by I.H. Olcay Ünver and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the book's four Parts, the interdisciplinary approach to many issues contributes to the relationship between water and poverty. Part I includes articles on the conceptual and methodological issues concerning poverty reduction through water resources development. It also offers analysis of quantitative measurements of poverty reduction, including some approaches for creating a Water Poverty Index. Part II considers the institutional frameworks for management of water and poverty reduction. Topics range from community-based decision making to international leadership. Part III encompasses discussions on participatory irrigation management and the privatization of urban water supplies and sewerage and the link to poverty. Case studies from India, Turkey, and Jordan make up Part IV. The studies present diverse water management and development practices for poverty reduction, including realistic pricing and effective irrigation practices, the use of water as an engine for sustainable development, small and large scale strategies for reducing the risks and uncertainties in water availability and food security, the economic value of improved water supplies, and the positive impact of small-scale development projects.
Book Synopsis Food, Agriculture and the Environment by : Edi Defrancesco
Download or read book Food, Agriculture and the Environment written by Edi Defrancesco and published by FrancoAngeli. This book was released on 2005 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Water Resources and Economic Development by : R. Maria Saleth
Download or read book Water Resources and Economic Development written by R. Maria Saleth and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Including work by some of the world's leading economists, engineers, ecologists and social scientists, Water Resources and Economic Development is a unique collection due to its global perspectives and specific focus upon the recent experiences of the developing regions of Asia, Africa and Latin America. It explores important topics such as basin and regional development, irrigation and agricultural development, water supply, sanitation and health, legal and institutional issues, water pricing and water markets, and policy trends and emerging issues. This authoritative volume will be an invaluable source for students, researchers and policymakers and also for those who would like to be more informed in this key area of development studies.
Author :Iván Francisco García-Tejero Publisher :Springer Science & Business Media ISBN 13 :9400720912 Total Pages :98 pages Book Rating :4.4/5 (7 download)
Book Synopsis Water and Sustainable Agriculture by : Iván Francisco García-Tejero
Download or read book Water and Sustainable Agriculture written by Iván Francisco García-Tejero and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-08-03 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irrigated agriculture, a vital component of general agriculture, supplies fruits, vegetables, and cereals consumed by humans and grains fed to animals. Consequently, agriculture is the largest user of fresh water globally, and irrigation practices in many parts of the world are biologically, economically, and socially unsustainable. Water management should balance the need for agricultural water and the need for a sustainable environment. Water-use efficiency is the prime challenge in worldwide farming practices where problems of water shortages are widespread. Currently, agriculture is undergoing significant changes in innovative irrigation, fertilizer technology, and agronomic expertise. These elements constitute a vital platform for sustainable agricultural success and for preventing environmental damage. This review presents several processes linked to environmental irrigation, balancing environmental protection with improved agricultural production.
Book Synopsis The Politics of Irrigation Reform by : Peter P. Mollinga
Download or read book The Politics of Irrigation Reform written by Peter P. Mollinga and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen international academics, researchers, engineers, and development specialists contribute ten chapters written as part of a research project on irrigation reform initiated by Geert Diemer (World Bank and INPIM), L. K. Joshi (IndiaNPIM), and Peter Mollinga (Wageningen U., The Netherlands) in th
Book Synopsis Management of Shared Groundwater Resources by : Eran Feitelson
Download or read book Management of Shared Groundwater Resources written by Eran Feitelson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of the world's freshwater resources in the liquid state (i.e. not in glaciers and polar caps) are underground. As the population grows and demand for water rises, reliance on groundwater increases. In many cases the groundwater underlies boundaries, or is part of a hydraulic system that crosses boundaries. In such cases there is always the danger that the 'prisoner's dilemma' will run its course and all parties will compete over who will pump the most water, ultimately destroying the storage potential to the detriment of future generations of all parties reliant on the groundwater. This book explores the options and means for averting this all too realistic scenario by managing these shared groundwater resources. Nowhere is the likelihood of excessive use of groundwater greater than in the water-scarce Middle East, and especially in the Israeli-Palestinian case. Here both sides are heavily reliant on a shared aquifer, the Mountain aquifer. This book is the outcome of a seven-year effort to find ways to manage the Mountain aquifer, perhaps the most important resource shared by Israelis and Palestinians. As part of this cooperative study, four workshops were held in which a selected number of Palestinian, Israeli, and foreign experts were invited. The chapters in this book were originally presented in one of these workshops. To these papers introductory and concluding chapters were added.
Book Synopsis Wastewater use in agriculture: Review of impacts and methodological issues in valuing impacts by : Intizar Hussain
Download or read book Wastewater use in agriculture: Review of impacts and methodological issues in valuing impacts written by Intizar Hussain and published by IWMI. This book was released on 2002 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of this paper is to provide a review of the characteristics of wastewater used for irrigation, and the reasoning behind the international guidelines presently used in regulating wastewater reuse for agriculture. This paper presents various systems of wastewater treatment available and discusses their benefits and shortcomings. A selective review of recent empirical studies identifies major impacts both positive and negative impacts of wastewater irrigation. Finally, the paper provides the review of environmental valuation techniques for analyzing impacts of wastewater uses in agriculture, and suggest a framework for application of some of these techniques. This framework will be applied to a developing country case study (Faisalabad area in Pakistan), in the ongoing IWMI research program.
Book Synopsis Country Experiences with Water Resources Management by : Guy J.-M. Le Moigne
Download or read book Country Experiences with Water Resources Management written by Guy J.-M. Le Moigne and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Publisher :Food & Agriculture Org. ISBN 13 :9789251037140 Total Pages :136 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (371 download)
Book Synopsis Water Sector Policy Review and Strategy Formulation by : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Download or read book Water Sector Policy Review and Strategy Formulation written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 1995 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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