Incentives and Instruments for Sustainable Irrigation - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 1845644069 ISBN 13: 9781845644062

Casa editrice: Wit Pr/Computational Mechanics, 2010

Riassunto

This book deals with the complex issue of promoting the development towards sustainable irrigation. It does not see sustainable irrigation as a fixed defined endpoint but rather as a locally defined and constantly changing objective. It provides a comprehensive discussion of the importance of institutions and governance to guide this process and then provides examples from around the world of how incentives and instruments have been introduced to support this development, how successful they have been and what the factors have been promoting or impeding the successful outcomes. The book also highlights the need to see sustainable irrigation in the context of other objectives such as food and water security, reallocating existing scarce resources between competing uses such as urban and industrial users as well as the environment, and how emerging issues such as bio-fuel production and increasing energy prices influence the process.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Dr. Henning Bjornlund is an Associate Research Professor at the the Centre for Regulation and Market Analysis at the University of South Australia. He is also an Associate Professor at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta,Canada where he holds a Canadian Research Chair in Water and the Economy.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Wit Pr/Computational Mechanics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1845644069
• ISBN 13: 9781845644062
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 216
• Redattore: Bjornlund H.
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