Research Catalog

Title

Salinity management for sustainable irrigation : integrating science, environment, and economics / Daniel Hillel ; with an appendix by E. Feinerman.

Author

Hillel, Daniel.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : World Bank, ©2000.

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Details

Description

vi, 92 pages : illustrations, maps; 28 cm.

Summary

Is irrigation sustainable, and if so, how and under what conditions? That is the question that has impelled the writing of this report. This report examine the nature of salinity, its effects on crop production, its effects on irrigation water, the effects of watrlogging and drainage, efforts to control salinity, the use of early warning systems, and social and institutional issues posed by salinity to conclude that irrigated agriculture will not only survive but indeed thrive in the proper circumstances and with appropriate measures. However, this statement is conditional: in some specific locations, inherently inefficient, self-destructive, and environmentally damaging operations will be forced to terminate. On the whole, however, irrigated agriculture should be able to adapt to the long-term requirements of sustainability, and to continue to feed humanity in the even more than in the past.

Series Statement

Environmentally and socially sustainable development. Rural development

Uniform Title

Environmentally and socially sustainable development. Rural development.

Subject

• Saline irrigation
• Saline waters
• Soils, Salts in
• salt water
• 48.34 irrigation, drainage
• Irrigatie (waterhuishouding)
• Duurzame ontwikkeling
• Water- en zouthuishouding

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN

• 082134773X
• 9780821347737

LCCN

00043650

OCLC

• ocm44619404
• 44619404
• SCSB-1136150

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library