Managing Salinization - Institutional Analysis of Public Irrigation Systems (Hardcover, illustrated edition)

Salinization of soils is a major threat to irrigated agriculture and counteracts the targets of costly public infrastructure investments. In this study, salinization is regarded as the outcome of an institutional arrangement which impedes the effective implementation of well-known and well-established control measures be they technical, managerial or economic. In public irrigation systems neither the management units nor the farmers are offered any incentives towards the control of high groundwater levels and salinization if the management units are embedded in a highly centralized non-market institutional setting. The author answers the question under which conditions management units and irrigators are active in halting and reversing the process of salinization.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag
Country of origin:	Germany
Release date:	2001
First published:	November 1997
Authors:	W. Scheumann
Translators:	A. Weissbach • H. Boeddicker
Dimensions:	248 x 165mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	290
Edition:	illustrated edition
ISBN-13:	978-3-540-63328-0
Subtitles:	German
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Management of land & natural resources Books > Professional & Technical > Environmental engineering & technology > General Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Primary industries > Agriculture & related industries Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Pollution & threats to the environment > General Books > Professional & Technical > Agriculture & farming > Agricultural engineering & machinery > Irrigation
LSN:	3-540-63328-6
Barcode:	9783540633280

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