Stephen Merrett

Water for Agriculture (eBook, PDF)

Irrigation Economics in International Perspective

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781482267778
• Artikelnr.: 54783901

Autorenporträt

Stephen Merrett

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements. Abbreviations. Units of measurement. Chapter One: The
Global Challenge. Chapter Two: The Demand for Irrigation Services. Chapter
Three: Irrigation Service Supply: the Infrastructure. Chapter Four:
Irrigation Service Supply: Operation, Maintenance and Management. Chapter
Five: Drainage Services Demand and Supply. Chapter Six: Social Cost-Benefit
Analysis for Irrigation Projects. Chapter Seven: Water Allocation at the
Regional Scale. Chapter Eight: The Political Economy of Irrigation.
Glossary. References. Index.