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Irrigated agriculture and the use of water resources in agriculture
face the challenges of sustainable development. Research has
advanced our knowledge of water use by crops, soil-water-solutes
interactions, and the engineering and managerial tools needed to
mobilize, convey, distribute, control and apply water for
agricultural production. However, the achievements booked in user
practice have revealed the need for new developments in the areas
of resource conservation, control of environmental and health
impacts, modernisation of technologies and management, economic
viability and the social acceptance of changes. The contributions
to Sustainability of Irrigated Agriculture cover most of the
relevant disciplines. Besides its multidisciplinarity, the
different origins, experience, backgrounds and practices of the
authors provide a wide, in-depth analysis of the various aspects of
water resource utilization in agriculture. The papers review
scientific, technical and managerial aspects, highlighting the main
problems, issues and future developments. The book covers the
different aspects of sustainability, including environmental,
technical, economic, institutional and social ones. Advances in
irrigation science and engineering are dealt with, both on- and
off-farm. Special attention is paid to the different components of
water quality management, to the transfer of technology, and to
capacity building.
Mankind has manipulated the quantity and quality of soil water for
millennia. Food production was massively increased through
fertilization, irrigation and drainage. But malpractice also caused
degradation of immense areas of once fertile land, rendering it
totally unproductive for many generations. In populated areas, the
pollutant load ever more often exceeds the soil's capacity for
buffering and retention, and large volumes of potable groundwater
have been polluted or are threatened to be polluted in the
foreseeable future. In the past decades, the role of soil water in
climate patterns has been recognized but not yet fully understood.
The soil-science community responded to this diversity of issues by
developing numerical models to simulate the behavior of water and
solutes in soils. These models helped improve our understanding of
unsaturated-zone processes and develop sustainable land-management
practices. Aimed at professional soil scientists, soil-water
modelers, irrigation engineers etc., this book discusses our
progress in soil-water modeling. Top scientists present case
studies, overviews and analyses of strengths, weaknesses,
opportunities and threats related to soil-water modeling. The
contributions cover a wide range of spatial scales, and discuss
fundamental aspects of unsaturated-zone modeling as well as issues
related to the application of models to real-world problems.
Irrigated agriculture and the use of water resources in agriculture
face the challenges of sustainable development. Research has
advanced our knowledge of water use by crops, soil-water-solutes
interactions, and the engineering and managerial tools needed to
mobilize, convey, distribute, control and apply water for
agricultural production. However, the achievements booked in user
practice have revealed the need for new developments in the areas
of resource conservation, control of environmental and health
impacts, modernisation of technologies and management, economic
viability and the social acceptance of changes. The contributions
to Sustainability of Irrigated Agriculture cover most of the
relevant disciplines. Besides its multidisciplinarity, the
different origins, experience, backgrounds and practices of the
authors provide a wide, in-depth analysis of the various aspects of
water resource utilization in agriculture. The papers review
scientific, technical and managerial aspects, highlighting the main
problems, issues and future developments. The book covers the
different aspects of sustainability, including environmental,
technical, economic, institutional and social ones. Advances in
irrigation science and engineering are dealt with, both on- and
off-farm. Special attention is paid to the different components of
water quality management, to the transfer of technology, and to
capacity building.
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