Salinity management for sustainable irrigation : integrating science, environment, and economics

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Salinity management for sustainable irrigation : integrating science, environment, and economics

Daniel Hillel ; with an appendix by E. Feinerman

(Environmentally and socially sustainable development series, . Rural development)

World Bank, c2000

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Bibliography: p. 79-87

Includes index

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Description

Irrigation has long played a key role in feeding expanding populations and is expected to play a still greater role in the future. However, is it sustainable? Can it remain in existence and function continuously and indefinitely? Some pessimists doubt that it is. This volume presents a more positive approach with carefully conditional optimism. It takes the diffuse, voluminous and disparate facts and combines them in a unified exposition. It merges physico-chemical, agronomic, environmental and economic principles into practical recommendations to help ensure the long-term viability and productivity of irrigated agriculture in arid and semiarid regions.

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  • NCID
    BA48881023
  • ISBN
    • 082134773X
  • LCCN
    00043650
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Washington, D.C.
  • Pages/Volumes
    vi, 92 p.
  • Size
    28 cm
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