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  • Sustainable Development of Rice and Water Resources in Mainland Southeast Asia and Mekong River Basin

    by Tuyet L. Cosslett, Patrick D. Cosslett ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book highlights rice and water resources security in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam – countries that share the international Mekong River, which is a source of both regional cooperation and conflict. It discusses the topography, population, economy, rice production and rice trade of these four riparian countries, and analyses the impacts of climate change, El Nino and La Nina, and the ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Water Resources and Food Security in the Vietnam Mekong Delta

    by Tuyet L. Cosslett, Patrick D. Cosslett ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The Mekong River has been a main source of conquest, conflict, and cooperation in the Southeast Asian region. Much has been written on the vital and critical importance of the Mekong River fresh water to the sustainable economic development of the Mekong Delta. This book selects the Mekong Delta as a case study of regional cooperation for water and food security for not only for Vietnam but also ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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    Series series Business and Management (R0)
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  • The Fundamentals of Horticulture

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  • Monitoring and Predicting Agricultural Drought

    A Global Study

    by Vijendra K. Boken, Arthur P. Cracknell, Ronald L. Heathcote ...
    Agricultural droughts affect whole societies, leading to higher food costs, threatened economies, and even famine. In order to mitigate such effects, researchers must first be able to monitor them, and then predict them; however no book currently focuses on accurate monitoring or prediction of these devastating kinds of droughts. To fill this void, the editors of Monitoring and Predicting ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Transforming Water Management in South Africa

    Designing and Implementing a New Policy Framework

    Edited by Barbara Schreiner, Rashid M. Hassan ...
    Series Book 2 - Global Issues in Water Policy
    One of the early set of reforms that South Africa embarked on after emerging from apartheid was in the water sector, following a remarkable, consultative process. The policy and legal reforms were comprehensive and covered almost all aspects of water management including revolutionary changes in defining and allocating rights to water, radical reforms in water management and supply institutions, ... Read more

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  • Innovations in Dryland Agriculture

    Edited by Muhammad Farooq, Kadambot H.M. Siddique ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book is a ready reference on recent innovations in dryland agriculture and reinforces the understanding for its utilization to develop environmentally sustainable and profitable food production systems. It covers the basic concepts and history, components and elements, breeding and modelling efforts, and potential benefits, experiences, challenges and innovations relevant to agriculture in ... Read more

    $215.09 USD

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    Policy Implications

    by Alberto Garrido, M. Ramón Llamas, Consuelo Varela-Ortega, Paula Novo, Roberto Rodríguez-Casado, Maite M. Aldaya ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    1.1 General Framework In most arid and semi-arid countries, water resource management is an issue that is both important and controversial. Most water resources experts now acknowledge that water conflicts are not caused by physical scarcity but are mainly due to poor water management (Rosegrant et al. 2002; Benoit and Comeau 2005; Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture 2007; ... Read more

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  • Combating Desertification and Land Degradation

    Spatial Strategies Using Vegetation

    by Victor Castillo, Dino Torri, Peter Sandercock, Lorenzo Borselli, Erik L.H. Cammeraat, Andre Meerkerk, Bas van Wesemael, Jan Peter Lesschen, Gonzalo Gonzalez Barbera, Jean Poesen, Sara De Baets, Jose Ignacio Querejeta, Jose A. Navarro-Cano, Carolina Boix-Fayos, Miguel Marchamalo, Janet Hooke ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book reports an approach developed to research and apply methods of assessing patterns of processes in the landscape, and suitability of different types of vegetation to mitigate soil erosion and sediment flux. Practical guidelines on a spatially strategic approach to management of land degradation at a range of spatial scales were produced. Originally developed for the Mediterranean ... Read more

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    Edited by Lothar Mueller, Askhad K. Sheudshen, Frank Eulenstein ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book presents an analysis of land and water resources in Siberia, initially characterizing the landscapes, their ecosystems, crucial processes, human impacts on soil and water quality, and the status quo of available research. Further chapters deal with modern monitoring and management methods that can lead to a significant knowledge shift and initiate sustainable soil and water resources use ... Read more

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  • The Economics of Water Demands

    by Steven Renzetti ...
    Series Book 22 - Natural Resource Management and Policy
    This book arose out of a paper that I wrote for the World Bank at the request of Ariel Dinar, the editor for the series in which this volume appears. I began that paper by pointing to the growing importance of demand-side considerations in water resources: "The provision of potable water is one of government's oldest functions with evidence of this activity stretching back thousands of years. ... Read more

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  • Emerging from an Entrenched Colonial Economy

    New Zealand Primary Production, Britain and the EEC, 1945 - 1975

    by David Hall ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book is a study of New Zealand shaking off its quasi-colonial dependence on Britain. Has New Zealand moved beyond its colonial heritage? Is it now time to remove the Union Jack from the national flag and change to a Republic? Hall analyses the three decades after World War II when changes in Britain, mainly as a consequence of that war, forced New Zealand to seek new markets for its exports, ... Read more

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