[PDF] Economics Of Irrigation Water Management eBook

Author : Thomas Bournaris
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 35,94 MB
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 148223839X

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This book includes a set of papers from distinguished scholars who critically examine economic issues relating to the relationship between water and agriculture, with a special focus on irrigation. Employing state of the art methodologies, they address the most relevant issues in water policy. The volume offers a wide spectrum of innovative approaches and original and relevant cases with a focus on irrigated European agriculture. The topics analyzed include qualitative and quantitative issues, water markets, demand analysis, economic analysis, implementation of economic issues.

Author : T. Franks
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 30,83 MB
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0203476867

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This book forms the proceedings of the 18th European conference on irrigation and drainage. Water is not a free commodity, and demand is becoming more and more intense for its allocation. This book focuses on the role of irrigation and drainage in the debate on water, and will be used by planners, designers and policy makers internationally.

Author : C. J. Perry
Publisher : IWMI
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 39,30 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Commercial products
ISBN : 9290903511

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Values and facts; The economic analysis of different values; Facts: public failure and maket failure; Water resource management and market failure; Summing; Conclusion: toward improved water resources management.

Author : Stephen Merrett
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 42,65 MB
Release : 2003-08-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1482267772

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World population is set to increase by a third in the next 25 years, with no corresponding increase in global rainfall. About seventy per cent of the world's abstracted water is used in farming and therefore the economics of irrigation is becoming an increasingly important issue for sustainable development. Water for Agriculture provides a thorough

Author : Ariel Dinar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 32,6 MB
Release : 1996-08-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0313368163

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This work presents models that characterize the relationships between quantity and quality of irrigation water application, and agricultural production and the environment. A comprehensive modeling approach addressing both the benefits of irrigation and the potential negative effects is introduced. Physical-biological concepts are combined with economic and engineering principles to demonstrate the usefulness of the model for analyzing various water management and policy issues. Decision makers on all levels should find the modeling approach interesting and useful in the management issues from the farm to national levels.

Author : Ariel Dinar
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 930 pages
File Size : 36,53 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1461540283

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Jan van Schilfgaarde, USDA Agricultural Research Service and National Research Council Committee on Irrigation-Induced Water Quality Problems In 1982, a startling discovery was made. Many waterbirds in Kesterson National Wildlife Refuge were dying or suffering reproductive failure. Located in the San Joaquin Valley (Valley) of California, the Kesterson Reservoir (Kesterson) was used to store agricultural drainage water and it was soon determined that the probable cause of the damage to wildlife was high concen trations of selenium, derived from the water and water organisms in the reservoir. This discovery drastically changed numerous aspects of water management in California, and especially affected irrigated agriculture. In fact, the repercussions spilled over to much of the Western United States. For a century, water development for irrigation has been a religiously pursued means for economic development of the West. The primary objective of the Reclamation Act of 1902 was, purportedly, the development ofirrigation water to support family farms which, in turn, would enhance the regional economy (Worster, 1985).

Author : François Molle
Publisher : CABI
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 34,47 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1845932927

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Much hope has been vested in pricing as a means of helping to regulate and rationalize water management, notably in the irrigation sector. The pricing of water has often been applied universally, using general and ideological policies, and not considering regional environmental and economic differences. Almost 15 years after the emphasis laid at the Dublin and Rio conferences on treating water as an economic good, a comprehensive review of how such policies have helped manage water resources an irrigation use is necessary. The case-studies presented here offer a reassessment of current policies by evaluating their objectives and constraints and often demonstrating their failure by not considering the regional context. They will therefore contribute to avoiding costly and misplaced reforms and help design water policies that are based on a deeper understanding of the factors which eventually dictate their effectiveness.

Author : Mary E. Renwick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 701 pages
File Size : 20,85 MB
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1351159267

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Water is becoming an increasingly scarce commodity in many parts of the world. Population growth plus a growing appetite for larger quantities of cheap water quality as a result of urban, industrial, and agricultural pollution coupled with increasing environmental demands have further reduced usable suppliers. This book brings together thirty of the best economic articles addressing water scarcity issues within the US and Mexico. By touching on a number of different issues, this volume clearly articulates the need for improving existing institutional arrangements as well as for developing new arrangements to address growing water scarcity problems.