Irrigation and water management Books
CABI Publishing Rainfed Agriculture: Unlocking the Potential
Book SynopsisRainfed agriculture is generally overlooked by development investors, researchers and policy makers due to limited confidence in its ability to increase agricultural production and development. However, research undertaken by a team of leading scientists from global organizations demonstrates its potential in achieving food security, improving livelihoods and most importantly addressing issues of equity and poverty reduction in dryland areas - the hot spots of poverty. On the basis of case studies from varied agricultural and ecological regions in Asia and Africa, chapters discuss the need for adopting new paradigms between rainfed and irrigated agriculture, catchment/micro-watershed management approaches, upgrades in science-based development and more investments in rainfed areas. Yield gaps for major rainfed crops are analysed globally and possible ways and means including technological, social, and institutional options to bridge the yield gaps are discussed in detail. Covering areas such as rainwater harvesting and its efficient use, the rehabilitation of degraded land and assessment methods for social, environmental and economic impacts, this book will be necessary for both academics and policy makers working in water management, agriculture and sustainable development.Table of Contents1: Rain-fed agriculture - Past trend and future prospects 2: Zooming in on the global hotspots of rainfed agriculture in water constrained environments 3: Water resource implications of upgrading rainfed agriculture - focus on green and blue water trade-offs 4: Tectonics-Climate Linked Natural Soil Degradation and its Impact in Rainfed Agriculture : Indian Experience 5: Determinants of crop growth and yield in a changing climate 6: Yield Gap Analysis: Modeling of Achievable Yields at Farm Level 7: Can rainfed agriculture feed the world? - An assessment of potentials and risk 8: Opportunities for Improving Crop-water Productivity through Genetic Enhancement of dryland crops 9: Water Harvesting for Improved Rainfed Agriculture in the Dry Environments 10: Supplemental Irrigation for Improved Rainfed Agriculture : In WANA Region 11: Opportunities for water harvesting and supplemental irrigation for improving rainfed agriculture in semi-arid areas 12: Integrated farm management practices and up scaling the impact for increased productivity of rainfed systems 13: Challenges of Adoption and Adaptation of Land and Water Management Options in Smallholder Agriculture: Synthesis of Lessons and Experiences 14: Scaling-out Community Watershed Management for Multiple Benefits in Rainfed Areas
£189.96
CABI Publishing Wastewater Use in Irrigated Agriculture:
Book SynopsisThe use of urban wastewater in agriculture is receiving renewed attention, with the increasing scarcity of fresh water resources in many arid and semi-arid regions of the world. Wastewater is a low-cost alternative to conventional irrigation water, although it may carry health and environmental risks.This book critically reviews experience worldwide of these issues. Emphasis is placed on untreated wastewater use by means of field-based case studies from Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America. It brings together a range of perspectives including economic, health, agronomic, environmental, institutional, and policy dimensions.Table of Contents1: Wastewater Use in Irrigated Agriculture: Management Challenges in Developing Countries 2: A Framework for a Global Assessment of the Extent of Wastewater Irrigation: The Need for a Common Wastewater Typology 3: A Sustainable Livelihoods Approach for Action Research on Wastewater Use in Agriculture 4: Health Guidelines for the Use of Wastewater in Agriculture: Developing Realistic Guidelines 5: A Fresh Look at Microbial Guidelines for Wastewater Irrigation in Agriculture: A Risk-assessment and Cost-effectiveness Approach 6: Wastewater Irrigation - Hazard or Lifeline? Empirical Results from Nairobi, Kenya and Kumasi 7: National Assessments on Wastewater Use in Agriculture and an Emerging Typology: The Vietnam Case Study 8: Wastewater Use in Pakistan: The Cases of Haroonabad and Faisalabad 9: Agricultural Use of Untreated Urban Wastewater in Ghana 10: Untreated Wastewater Use in Market Gardens: A Case Study of Dakar, Senegal 11: Wastewater Irrigation in Vadodara, Gujarat, India: Economic Catalyst for Marginalized Communities 12: The Use of Wastewater in Cochabamba, Bolivia: A Degrading Environment 13: Treatment Plant Effects on Wastewater Irrigation Benefits: Revisiting a Case Study in the Guanajuato River Basin, Mexico 14: From Wastewater Reuse to Water Reclamation: Progression of Water Reuse Standards in Jordan 15: Treated Wastewater Use in Tunisia: Lessons Learned and the Road Ahead 16: Confronting the Realities of Wastewater Use in Irrigated Agriculture: Lessons Learned and Recommendations Appendix 1: The Hyderabad Declaration on Wastewater Use in Agriculture
£72.45
CABI Publishing Irrigation Management: Principles and Practices
Book SynopsisIn many countries irrigated agriculture consumes a large proportion of the available water resources, often over 70% of the total. There is considerable pressure to release water for other uses, and as a sector irrigated agriculture will have to increase its efficiency and productivity of water use. Drawing on the author's 30 years of experience in some 28 countries, this book offers knowledge for the management of irrigation and drainage systems, including traditional technical areas of systems operation and maintenance, and expanding managerial, institutional and organizational aspects. Chapters provide guidelines to improve management, operation and maintenance processes, which move management thinking out of traditional public-sector mindsets to a more customer-focussed, performance-oriented service delivery. As a practical guide to improve efficiency and productivity in irrigated agriculture, this book is essential reading for irrigation managers and technicians as well as students and policymakers in water management, agriculture and sustainable development.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Components of Irrigation and Drainage Schemes Chapter 3: Management Chapter 4: Operation of the Main System Chapter 5: Operation of the On-Farm System Chapter 6: Maintenance Chapter 7: Training Chapter 8: Financing Chapter 9: Irrigation Management Transfer and Organizational Restructuring Chapter 10: Performance Assessment
£189.65
CABI Publishing River Basin Trajectories: Societies, Environments
Book SynopsisUsing a variety of case studies, this book provides an overview of how societies have gradually developed their water resources and furthers our understanding of how such resources can be managed successfully or unsuccessfully. Discussing how and why particular options are selected, and why a particular course of events eventually prevails, the book stresses the importance of context and a multidisciplinary approach in moving towards sustainable and equitable development.Table of Contents1: Conceptual and Substantive Introduction 2: The Jordan River Basin, Jordan 3: The Olifant River Basin, South Africa 4: The Lerma-Chapala River Basin, Mexico 5: The Chao Phraya River Basin, Thailand 6: The Yellow River Basin, China 7: The Merguellil River Basin, Tunisia 8: The Ruaha/Rufiji River Basin, Tanzania 9: The Zayandeh Rud Basin, Iran 10: The Bhavani River Basin, India 11: The Pungwe and Save River Basins, Zimbabwe and Mozambique 12: The Murray-Darling River Basin, Australia 13: Synthesis: Human-environment Interactions in a River Basin Context
£108.90
CABI Publishing Irrigation Systems: Design, Planning and
Book SynopsisOf all the confrontations man has engineered with nature, irrigation systems have had the most widespread and far-reaching impact on the natural environment. Over a quarter of a billion hectares of the planet are irrigated and entire countries depend on irrigation for their survival and existence. Considering the importance of irrigation schemes, it is unfortunate that until recently the technology and principles of design applied to their construction has hardly changed in 4,000 years. Modern thinking on irrigation engineering has benefited from a cross-fertilization of ideas from many other fields including social sciences, control theory, political economics and agriculture. However, these influences have been largely ignored by irrigation engineers. Drawing on almost 40 years of experience of irrigation in the developing world, Laycock introduces new ideas on the design of irrigation systems and combines important issues from the disciplines of social conflict, management, and political thinking.Table of Contents1: Evolution and a Prelude to Change 2: Elements of Irrigation 3: Water Management 4: Canal Operation and Automation 5: Irrigation Water Demands 6: Canal Architecture 7: Canal Control Structures 8: Low-Pressure Pipelines 9: Canal Lining 10: Canal Hydraulic Design 11: Troubleshooting - Feedback from the Field
£44.08
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Improving Irrigation in Asia: Sustainable
Book SynopsisImproving Irrigation in Asia is based on a longitudinal study over two decades on innovative intervention for sustained performance of irrigation systems. The work identifies key factors that can help explain the performance of interventions, and explicates lessons for resource management and the management of development assistance. In 1985, the Water and Energy Commission Secretariat of Nepal and the International Irrigation Management Institute developed an ingenious intervention program for nineteen irrigation systems located in the middle hills of Nepal in an attempt to overcome the prevailing 'best-practices' traps, in regard to assisting irrigation systems. This book highlights the innovativeness of the project lay in its provision of ample opportunities for farmers to make decisions regarding the operation of the irrigation system based on their local knowledge and creativity. The authors of this work, Elinor Ostrom, Wai Fung Lam, Prachanda Pradhan and Ganesh P. Shivakoti provide detailed analysis of these interventions and support the conclusion that farmers can build on an innovative intervention that not only provides physical improvements but also enhances farmers' problem-solving capacity. They argue that to achieve sustainable improvements in performance, the farmers themselves need to engage in collective action over time and support local entrepreneurs who provide leadership and stimulate adjustments to change. Providing practical policy solutions, this study will prove a fascinating and invaluable read for academics and scholars of development studies, resource management, and irrigation studies, as well as development specialists in international agencies, policy makers in governments and international donor agencies.Trade Review’A unique and significant longitudinal study of irrigation intervention in FMIS in Nepal that revives important debates on how irrigation management evolves and how this can be investigated. This concise and accessible book can inform and challenge agencies and donors to reflect on policies and researchers to argue further the study of collective action and political theory in irrigation management.’ -- Linden Vincent, Wageningen University, The Netherlands‘Improving Irrigation in Asia by Elinor Ostrom and colleagues is grounded in intimate detail on water management experience in Nepal while being informed by broadly-applicable concepts and behavioral theories. It greatly advances our understanding of management options and effects. As the water resources available for agriculture become more limited and unreliable, the efficiency and productivity with which irrigation water is used must be increased. While better technology can assist in this quest, the greatest potential gains lie in the social and organizational domains.’ -- Norman Uphoff, Cornell University’Governance of irrigation systems is complex, needing social, technical and financial actions that support farming. Few people have as much knowledge of self-governing irrigation systems as these authors, and few countries have as many of these systems as Nepal. Lessons from these small irrigation systems can be adapted to much larger units, and to other kinds of activity. External assistance on a modest scale could generate practical benefit, by encouraging self-reliance in communities.’ -- Charles Abernethy, International Irrigation Management Institute, Colombo (1987 - 94) and Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand (1996 - 99)Table of ContentsContents: Foreword by Gilbert Levine Preface by Robert Yoder 1. The Challenge of Achieving Successful Development Interventions 2. Effects of Different Modes of Assistance on the Performance of Farmer-managed Irrigation Systems in Nepal 3. Processes and Procedures of an Innovative Development Intervention Initiated in 1985 in the Middle Hills of Nepal 4. Evaluating an Innovative Development Intervention a Decade and a Half Later 5. Post-intervention Dynamics in 2008: Focusing on Two Success and Two Failure Cases 6. Synthesis and Conclusion References Index
£82.00
Taylor & Francis Ltd Alternative Irrigation: The Promise of Runoff
Book SynopsisAn introduction to runoff agriculture - a form of agricultural irrigation - this text describes how the use of surface and subsurface water, often overlooked and wasted, enables both small farmers and commercial agriculturists to improve yields and the security of harvest, even in harsh and remote environments. The text introduces the techniques and strategies, as well as the challenges and the potential of the crucial approach, which can contribute so much to reducing land degradation and improving conservation and sustainability.Trade Review'An essential tool for research and teaching.' Landmark 'This book provides a fascinating ... insight into this most ancient of agricultural practices.' Biological Agriculture and Horticulture 'This excellent and very modestly priced book will serve both as an introduction and a well researched reference text on a much neglected aspect of irrigated agriculture.' Experimental AgricultureTable of ContentsIntroduction * Soil and Water Conservation * Runoff Harvesting and Storage * Ephemeral and Variable Streamflow: Spate, Wetlands and Flood Agriculture * Indigenous Runoff Agriculture: Challenges and Breakdown * Expanding, Upgrading and Rehabilitating Runoff Agriculture * The Future for Runoff Agriculture * Glossary * References * Further Reading * Index
£39.99
New India Publishing Agency Cropping Systems: Principles and Practices
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£33.03
New India Publishing Agency Drip and Sprinkler Irrigation
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£52.43
New India Publishing Agency Irrigation Management
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£64.24
New India Publishing Agency Irrigation Systems Engineering
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£43.40
Indus Publishing Company Irrigation Projects in India: Towards a New
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£13.12
Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Water stress and human migration: a global,
Book SynopsisThis report assesses and maps 184 peer-reviewed, empirical research articles selected for their focus on linkages between water stress and human migration. First and most importantly, this literature asserts that migration is an extremely common social process and is normal in almost every society on earth. Moreover, environment- influenced migration is rarely (if ever) a resource threat to the regions to which people move. The literature does, however, observe that negative social outcomes can result from narratives that stigmatize migrants and/or cast migrants as a security threat - especially when these narratives are used to justify increased surveillance and monitoring of these people.
£46.00
New India Publishing Agency Irrigation Systems Engineering
Book SynopsisThis is a text book for agriculture and agricultural engineers and will be very much helpful for the beginning students in irrigation. It is designed to guide students from a basic knowledge of soil, mathematics, hydrologic and hydraulics to the state-of-the-art irrigation system design and management. Since major and medium irrigation projects are too costly and at the same time are not eco-friendly, the major thrust of research is now being imparted on low cost and easy to construct farm irrigation structures. The primary aim of the book is to design an optimum size small scale water harvesting structure which is the farm pond mostly used by the farmers in the farms. My goal is to present the principles and concepts of farm irrigation in a simple manner to maximize the students learning, understanding and motivation. The method and order of presentation have been carefully developed and classroom tested to make this book a useful and effective teaching tool. The book will not only be a helping tool to the students and teachers in agriculture and agricultural engineering but also to all the practicing engineers, agriculturists, soil conservationists and agricultural extension workers who deal directly or indirectly with water management and other associated farm development works. However, the book cannot be used for design of complex hydraulic structures including dams and reservoi The book contains 23 solved problems, 238 short and long type questions, 42 tables, 55 figures and more than 138 references which will be immensely helpful to the students and design engineeSeveral field experimental results have also been incorporated in the book at appropriate sections to make the book interesting for the readers.Table of Contents1. Farm pond irrigation and rainfed agriculture. 2. Types of farm ponds. 3. Location and site selection. 4. Water supply to farm pond. 5. Water demand from farm pond. 65. Dimensions of farm pond. 7. Optimum size of farm pond. 8. Construction of farm pond. 9. Losses of water in farm pond. 10. Efficient use of harvested water of farm pond. 11. Economics of farm pond irrigation systems. 12. Farm pond maintenance. 13. Other sources of irrigation.
£70.30
New India Publishing Agency Drip and Sprinkler Irrigation
Book SynopsisThe book Drip and Sprinkler Irrigation is intended as a text book of micro irrigation design and practices for the students of the agricultural sciences and the professionals and workers in the field of micro irrigation. The book discusses the type and components, hydraulics and design, installation and maintenance of micro irrigation system. It contains good number of numerical as example and task to get the students familiar to the requirements, complicacies, and possible remedies in actual working condition. In addition to conventional broad and short questions in every of the book there are multiple choice questions to assist the students in preparing the competitive examinations.Table of Contents01 Drip Introduction 02 Hydraulics of Flow Regime 03 Drip Design Procedure 04 Design of Pipe Network 05 Distributor 06 Fertilization 07 Low Cost Drip System 08 Sprinkler Irrigation
£110.03
New India Publishing Agency Formulas and Computations in Agriculture
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£74.67
New India Publishing Agency Irrigation Management
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£128.48
New India Publishing Agency Cropping Systems: Principles and Practices
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£62.11
New India Publishing Agency Engineering Vision Technology: Revolution and
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£157.32
Nova Science Publishers, Inc. Irrigation Management Strategies Sustainability and Agricultural Advancements
£113.59
