Managing Salinization

Institutional Analysis of Public Irrigation Systems

W. Scheumann, A. Weissbach, H. Boeddicker

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German

Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
30 September 1997

Agriculture & related industries; Management of land & natural resources; Pollution & threats to the environment; Environmental science, engineering & technology; Irrigation

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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 irrigators are active in halting and reversing the process of salinization.

By: W. Scheumann
Translated by: A. Weissbach, H. Boeddicker
Imprint: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Country of Publication: Germany
Edition: illustrated edition
ISBN: 9783540633280
ISBN 10: 3540633286
Pages: 290
Publication Date: 30 September 1997
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active