Sustainable Irrigation Management, Technologies and Policies, v. 3

Attracting researchers in academia and industry, as well as professional practitioners and policy makers, the Third International Conference provides a platform for a review of the state of the art from the scientific, technological, political and economic points of view.

resh water is becoming an increasingly precious commodity. In the near future, control of it could lead to the type of political instability that is now associated with energy shortages. This book addresses the different aspects of irrigation, including not only the management of water resources and scientific and technical aspects, but also matters related to policy and economics. The objective of the Conference Series is to provide a venue for an international presentation and dissemination of papers related to sustainable ways of conducting irrigation. Sustainable irrigation has three key aspects, i.e. i) developing ways of using scarce water resources most efficiently to maximize food production while minimizing the environmental impact of irrigation activities on the affected land and water resources; ii) ensuring that the extraction of water from surface and groundwater sources is set at sustainable levels to maintain healthy aquatic ecosystems to secure a continued supply of quality water for irrigation, recreation and urban/industrial uses; iii) facilitate an equitable distribution of the water available for consumption between competing users, which is essential to maintain sustainable communities. Attracting researchers in academia and industry, as well as professional practitioners and policy makers, the Third International Conference provides a platform for a review of the state of the art from the scientific, technological, political and economic points of view. Papers from the Meeting are published in this volume, and cover the following topics: Irrigation Management; Modelling and Simulation; Sustainable Irrigation - Farmers' Actions, Environmental Benefits and Socio-economic Consequences.

Section
1: Irrigation management Land reclamation and water management in an arid region: a case study of Xayar county in Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, China
Making large gravity irrigation systems perform
Farmers' preferences for irrigation water demand management tools: a Bayesian analysis of choice behaviour of farmers in Krishna river basin, India
Effect of deficit irrigation and mulch on water use and yield of drip irrigated onions
Magnitude yield response and economic value of selected wheat genotypes related to irrigation schedules under the arid ecosystem of Saudi Arabia
Robustness, vulnerability and adaptive capacity in social ecological systems: the case of spate irrigation systems in Pakistan
Five thousand years of irrigation history in Iran: rituals and methods Section
2: Modelling and simulation Decision models for better land management under cultivation
Correlation between chemo-physical parameters NH
3, NO
2, NO
3, SO
4, pH and aquifer and impervious layer electrical resistance in groundwater
Theoretical basis and significance of variance of discharge as a bidimensional variable in microirrigation lateral design
Saving irrigation water by accounting for windbreaks
Rainfall data calculation using Artificial Neural Networks and adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference systems
Design for an engineered sinkholeA" to improve, recharge and reduce evapotranspiration in an upstream flood control structure
Evaluation of the Aardvark constant head soil permeameter to predict saturated hydraulic conductivity Section
3: Sustainable irrigation - farmers' actions, environmental benefits and socio-economic consequences Sustainable irrigation - a new challenge?
Path dependence and critical junctures: an urban-rural water sharing study
Modelling the adoption of different types of irrigation water technology in Alberta, Canada
Improving water use efficiency in southern Alberta irrigated agriculture: choice of criterion
Alberta's drive to use market-based instruments for ecosystem services provision
Trade influences in Australia's allocation market: can allocations provide environmental water
The drought, the irrigators, and their photographs: images from the inside