Managing Salinization Institutional Analysis of Public Irrigation Systems

Name: Managing Salinization Institutional Analysis of Public Irrigation Systems
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ISBN: 9783540633280

ISBN-10: 3540633286

ISBN-13: 9783540633280

Edition: 1997

Authors: Waltina Scheumann

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Salinization of soils is a major threat to irrigated agriculture and counteracts the targets of costly public infrastructure investments. In this study, salinization is regarded as the outcome of an institutional arrangement which impedes the effective implementation of well-known and well-established control measures be they technical, managerial or economic. In public irrigation systems neither the management units nor the farmers are offered any incentives towards the control of high groundwater levels and salinization if the management units are embedded in a highly centralized non-market institutional setting. The author answers the question under which conditions management units and…

Book details

List price: $179.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Springer
Publication date: 11/13/1997
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 274
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English



Introduction



Theories on the Provision and Supply of Goods and Services Through Political Bureaucratic Systems



Literature Review on Large-Scale Public and on Small-Scale Farmer-Owned and -Managed Irrigation Systems



The Implementation Process of the Lower Seyhan Irrigation Project, With Special Reference to Means of High Groundwater Level and Salinity Control



Contributions to High Groundwater Levels and Salinization Caused by the Operation and Maintenance of the Lower Seyhan Irrigation Project



Effects of High Groundwater Levels, Waterlogging and Salinity on Farm Economy



Discussion and Outlook


Annexes


References


Index