Sustainable Irrigation Management, Technologies and Policies II

Preface......Page 12
Contents......Page 14
Section 1: Sustainable irrigation and economic instruments Special session organised by Henning Bjornlund......Page 18
Economic instruments and irrigation water management - a comparative study of private and district irrigators in Alberta, Canada......Page 20
Application of economic instruments, tradable licenses and good governance for sustainable water conservation......Page 32
Sustainable irrigation and the role of economic instruments and their supporting institutions......Page 42
Irrigation and water security: the role of economic instruments and governance......Page 52
Irrigation to meet growing food demand with climate change, salinity and water trade......Page 60
Irrigated agriculture in an era of high energy prices......Page 70
Factors influencing water allocation and entitlement prices in the Greater Goulburn area of Australia......Page 80
Sustainability of groundwater resources in India: challenges and scope for economic instruments and policy......Page 90
Water options contracts to facilitate intersectoral trade......Page 100
Section 2: Irrigation management......Page 110
Why do two-thirds of Australian irrigators use no objective irrigation scheduling methods?......Page 112
Salt tolerance classification of winter cereal varieties according to grain yield performance and water use efficiency......Page 122
Midsummer deficit irrigation of alfalfa as a strategy for providing water for water-short areas......Page 132
Yield and canopy response of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) to different irrigation regimes......Page 140
Using individual farm management plans to manage land use change effects associated with new irrigation development, Canterbury, New Zealand......Page 150
Monitoring irrigation water, analysis and database maintenance for Nahr Ibrahim......Page 160
Groundwater history and trends in Kuwait......Page 170
Section 3: Irrigation modelling......Page 182
Applicability of a 4 inputs ANN model for ETo prediction in coastal and inland locations......Page 184
Modelling irrigation strategies to minimize deep drainage for two different climatic regions of Canada......Page 194
Adaptive scheduling in deficit irrigation - a model-data fusion approach......Page 204
Hydrological water balance modelling for assessing productivity and irrigation planning......Page 218
Section 4: Irrigation systems and planning......Page 228
An integrated framework for sustainable agriculture land use and production practices......Page 230
Sustainable irrigation in areas with an arid and semi-arid climate in the province of Alicante......Page 240
Predicting environmental sustainability for proposed irrigation schemes......Page 250
A framework for evaluating the consumption patterns and environmental impacts of irrigation methods: a case study from South-Eastern Australia......Page 262
Computer application for optimization of turn assignment on a tree-structured irrigation network......Page 272
Cost-benefit analysis of different solutions for sustainable irrigation in Fucino Plain (Italy)......Page 280
Determining the climatologically suitable areas for wheat production using MODIS-NDVI in Mashhad, Iran......Page 290
Mass mixing approach for assessing effects of irrigation on water quality......Page 298
Designs for the future: the role of sustainable irrigation in northern Australia......Page 310
Definition of ecological flows downstream of dams located in the South of Portugal: a new method......Page 320
Study to improve the effective use of water in the Stompdrift-Kamanassie water scheme in the Oudtshoorn area in the Western Cape Province of South Africa......Page 330
Section 5: Re-use of water......Page 340
Economic analysis of water reuse in Spain......Page 342
Treated wastewater reuse for green space irrigation in arid and semiarid regions......Page 352
Integrating alternative water sources in urbanised environments......Page 368
Filter and emitter performance of micro-irrigation systems using secondary and tertiary effluents......Page 378
The use of treated effluent for agricultural irrigation: current status in the Bottelary catchment (South Africa)......Page 388
O......Page 398
Z......Page 399