Book Description

This book contains most of the papers presented at the Second International Conference on Sustainable Irrigation, Management, Technologies and Policies . The meeting follows the success of the first Conference which was organised in Bologna in 2006.

Over-exploitation of fresh water resources is leading to damaging long lasting environmental effects with considerable depletion of groundwater and surface water sources. The problem of contamination adds to these effects, effectively reducing the availability of clean water. The Conference also discussed how irrigation ought to be used to avoid deterioration of crops and soils.

The papers presented in this volume have been classified in the following sections: Sustainable Irrigation and Economic Instruments; Irrigation Management; Irrigation Modelling; Irrigation Systems and Planning; Re-use of Water

Book Contents

Economic instruments and irrigation water management – a comparative study of private and district irrigators in Alberta, Canada
H. Bjornlund; L. Nicol; K. Klein;

Application of economic instruments, tradable licenses and good governance for sustainable water conservation
W. L. Nieuwoudt; G. R. Backeberg;

Sustainable irrigation and the role of economic instruments and their supporting institutions
K. W. Easter;

Irrigation and water security: the role of economic instruments and governance
R. C. de Loë; H. Bjornlund;

Irrigation to meet growing food demand with climate change, salinity and water trade
J. Connor; K. Schwabe; D. King;

Irrigated agriculture in an era of high energy prices
K. Schoengold; T. Sproul; D. Zilberman;

Factors influencing water allocation and entitlement prices in the Greater Goulburn area of Australia
S. Wheeler; H. Bjornlund; M. Shanahan; A. Zuo;

Sustainability of groundwater resources in India: challenges and scope for economic instruments and policy
S. Msangi;

Water options contracts to facilitate intersectoral trade
J. Byrnes; L. Crase; B. Dollery;

Why do two-thirds of Australian irrigators use no objective irrigation scheduling methods?
K. D. Montagu; R. J. Stirzaker;

Salt tolerance classification of winter cereal varieties according to grain yield performance and water use efficiency
N. Katerji; M. Mastrorilli; M. M. Nachit; J. W. van Hoorn; A. Hamdy; T. Oweis; O. Abdalla; S. Grando;

Midsummer deficit irrigation of alfalfa as a strategy for providing water for water-short areas
B. Hanson; K. Bali; S. Orloff; H. Carlson; B. Sanden; D. Putnam;

Yield and canopy response of chickpea ( L.) to different irrigation regimes
M. Rinaldi; A. V. Vonella; P. Soldo; G. Debiase; P. Garofalo;

Using individual farm management plans to manage land use change effects associated with new irrigation development, Canterbury, New Zealand
B. Ellwood; L. Mead; C. Mulcock; S. Dawson;

Monitoring irrigation water, analysis and database maintenance for Nahr Ibrahim
J. Harb; F. Comair;

Groundwater history and trends in Kuwait
E. H. AlAli;

Applicability of a 4 inputs ANN model for ETo prediction in coastal and inland locations
P. Martí; A. Royuela; J. Manzano; G. Palau;

Modelling irrigation strategies to minimize deep drainage for two different climatic regions of Canada
G. Parkin; S. Wang;

Adaptive scheduling in deficit irrigation – a model-data fusion approach
M. M. Holloway-Phillips; W. Peng; D. Smith; A. Terhorst;

Hydrological water balance modelling for assessing productivity and irrigation planning
M. B. Nagdeve; G. K. Ramteke; P. A. Kamble;

An integrated framework for sustainable agriculture land use and production practices
T. Leitão; M. C. Cunha; I. Laranjeira; J. P. Lobo-Ferreira; E. Paralta;

Sustainable irrigation in areas with an arid and semi-arid climate in the province of Alicante
C. J. Sánchez-Rubio;

Predicting environmental sustainability for proposed irrigation schemes
N. Norton; S. Dawson; B. Ellwood; L. Mead;

A framework for evaluating the consumption patterns and environmental impacts of irrigation methods: a case study from South-Eastern Australia
T. M. Jackson; S. Khan; M. M. Hafeez;

Computer application for optimization of turn assignment on a tree-structured irrigation network
A. Almiñana; L. F. Escudero; M. Landete; J. F. Monge; A. Rabasa; J. Sánchez-Soriano;

Cost-benefit analysis of different solutions for sustainable irrigation in Fucino Plain (Italy)
E. Frank; A. Gallina; M. Baldacci; M. Miolo;

Determining the climatologically suitable areas for wheat production using MODIS-NDVI in Mashhad, Iran
S. H. Sanaeinejad; S. M. Hasheminiya; S. Khojasteh;

Mass mixing approach for assessing effects of irrigation on water quality
I. Fraser; S. Douglass; B. Ellwood; N. Norton;

Designs for the future: the role of sustainable irrigation in northern Australia
J. K. Camkin; K. L. Bristow; C. Petheram; Z. Paydar; F. J. Cook; J. Story;

Definition of ecological flows downstream of dams located in the South of Portugal: a new method
M. M. Portela;

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
A. S. Roux;

Economic analysis of water reuse in Spain
J. M. Moreno; L. D. Chabalina;

Treated wastewater reuse for green space irrigation in arid and semiarid regions
G. Badalians Gholikandi; M. Lashgari; P. Kiumarsi;

Integrating alternative water sources in urbanised environments
M. Schwecke; B. Simmons; B. Maheshwari; G. Ramsay;

Filter and emitter performance of micro-irrigation systems using secondary and tertiary effluents
M. Duran-Ros; J. Puig-Bargués; J. Barragán; G. Arbat; F. Ramírez de Cartagena;

The use of treated effluent for agricultural irrigation: current status in the Bottelary catchment (South Africa)
N. Z. Jovanovic;

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