Water Scarcity: Impacts on Western AgricultureErnest A. Engelbert, Ann Foley Scheuring Based on papers and discussions from a conference held in Monterey, Calif., Sept. 1982 and sponsored by the Directorate on Arid Zone Ecosystems of the United States Man and the Biosphere Program et al. |
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Contents
Preface vii | 1 |
Strategies for Maintaining Agricultural Viability | 11 |
Water Availability for Agriculture in the Semiarid West | 17 |
LegalInstitutional Limitations on Water Use | 51 |
Competition for Water | 81 |
Alternatives for Satisfying Agricultural Water Demands | 109 |
Increasing Efficiency of Nonagricultural Water Use | 133 |
Coping with Salinity | 157 |
Impacts Upon Business Communities | 299 |
Social Impacts on Rural Communities | 309 |
Social Impacts Upon Urban Communities | 331 |
Environmental Impacts | 354 |
What Farmers Can Do for Themselves | 380 |
What Financial and Business Interests Can Do | 396 |
Water Rights and Market Transfers | 408 |
One States Strategy for Putting Water to | 437 |
Improving Crop Management | 180 |
Improving Land and Water Use Practices | 204 |
Improving Irrigation Systems | 218 |
Impacts of Less Water for Irrigated Agriculture | 244 |
National and International Commodity Price Impacts | 273 |
Federal Water Policies and Irrigated Agriculture | 445 |
Summary | 472 |
Contributors 485 | |
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| Title | Water Scarcity: Impacts on Western Agriculture Online access: California Digital Library UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004 |
| Editors | Ernest A. Engelbert, Ann Foley Scheuring |
| Contributor | Directorate on Arid Zone Ecosystems of the United States Man and the Biosphere Program |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | University of California Press, 1984 |
| ISBN | 0520053133, 9780520053137 |
| Length | 484 pages |
| Subjects | › › Technology & Engineering / Agriculture / General |
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