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As the standard of living for a large section of the world population continues to increase, the strategic importance of fresh water resources also rises. It is essential to seek ways of achieving the most efficient and equitable use of these resources at the same time as making their use sustainable. Even in those countries where fresh water is currently easily available, over-exploitation is leading to damaging long-lasting environmental effects, such as lowering of water tables or depletion of river flows. Adding to these effects, the problem of contamination effectively reduces the availability of sufficient clean water. Water is also essential for irrigation purposes, but its indiscriminate use can lead not only to shortages, but also to the deterioration of crop yields and soils. Hence it is vital to ensure that irrigation is applied as effectively as possible in order to achieve sustainability.Attracting researchers in academia and industry, as well as professional practitioners and policy makers, the Second International Conference on Sustainable Irrigation provided a platform for a review of the state-of-the-art from the scientific, technological, political and economic points of view. Papers from the Meeting are published in this volume, and cover the following topics: irrigation controls; irrigation systems and planning; irrigation modelling; irrigation management; remote sensing application; irrigation in arid and semi-arid regions; re-use of water; water and soil pollution control; and bio-economic modelling.

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Author:   Y. Villacampa Esteve ,  C. A. Brebbia (Wessex Institut of Technology) ,  D. Prats Rico
Publisher:   WIT Press
Imprint:   WIT Press
Volume:   v. 112
ISBN:  

9781845641160

ISBN 10:   1845641167
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   27 May 2008
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Section 1: Sustainable irrigation and economic instruments Special session organised by Henning Bjornlund Economic instruments and irrigation water management - a comparative study of private and district irrigators in Alberta, Canada; Application of economic instruments, tradable licenses and good governance for sustainable water conservation; Sustainable irrigation and the role of economic instruments and their supporting institutions; Irrigation and water security: the role of economic instruments and governance; Irrigation to meet growing food demand with climate change, salinity and water trade; Irrigated agriculture in an era of high energy prices; Factors influencing water allocation and entitlement prices in the Greater Goulburn area of Australia; Sustainability of groundwater resources in India: challenges and scope for economic instruments and policy; Water options contracts to facilitate intersectoral trade Section 2: Irrigation management Why do two-thirds of Australian irrigators use no objective irrigation scheduling methods?; Salt tolerance classification of winter cereal varieties according to grain yield performance and water use efficiency; Midsummer deficit irrigation of alfalfa as a strategy for providing water for water-short areas; Yield and canopy response of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) to different irrigation regimes; Using individual farm management plans to manage land use change effects associated with new irrigation development, Canterbury, New Zealand; Monitoring irrigation water, analysis and database maintenance for Nahr Ibrahim; Groundwater history and trends in Kuwait Section 3: Irrigation modelling Applicability of a 4 inputs ANN model for ETo prediction in coastal and inland locations; Modelling irrigation strategies to minimize deep drainage for two different climatic regions of Canada; Adaptive scheduling in deficit irrigation - a model-data fusion approach; Hydrological water balance modelling for assessing productivity and irrigation planning Section 4: Irrigation systems and planning An integrated framework for sustainable agriculture land use and production practices; Sustainable irrigation in areas with an arid and semi-arid climate in the province of Alicante; Predicting environmental sustainability for proposed irrigation schemes; A framework for evaluating the consumption patterns and environmental impacts of irrigation methods: a case study from South-Eastern Australia; Computer application for optimization of turn assignment on a tree-structured irrigation network; Cost-benefit analysis of different solutions for sustainable irrigation in Fucino Plain (Italy); Determining the climatologically suitable areas for wheat production using MODIS-NDVI in Mashhad, Iran; Mass mixing approach for assessing effects of irrigation on water quality; Designs for the future: the role of sustainable irrigation in northern Australia; Definition of ecological flows downstream of dams located in the South of Portugal: a new method; Study to improve the effective use of water in the Stompdrift-Kamanassie water scheme in the Oudtshoorn area in the Western Cape Province of South Africa Section 5: Re-use of water Economic analysis of water reuse in Spain; Treated wastewater reuse for green space irrigation in arid and semiarid regions; Integrating alternative water sources in urbanised environments; Filter and emitter performance of micro-irrigation systems using secondary and tertiary effluents; The use of treated effluent for agricultural irrigation: current status in the Bottelary catchment (South Africa)

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