Efficiency in Irrigation: The Conjunctive Use of Surface and Groundwater Resources. A World Bank Symposium

摘要

;Contents: The efficient use of surface water and groundwater in irrigation: An overview of the issues; Market failure and the efficiency of irrigated agriculture; Legal considerations for coping with externalities in irrigated agriculture; Responses to some of the adverse external effects of groundwater withdrawals in California; Large-scale irrigation and drainage schemes in Pakistan; Development of groundwater for agriculture in the lower Yellow River alluvial basin; All is not wells in North China: Irrigation in Yucheng County; A review of groundwater management models; New approaches to using mathematical programming for resource allocation; Modeling efficient conjunctive use of water in the Indus Basin.