Water Resource Economics Towards a Sustainable Use of Water for Irrigation in India /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Chandrakanth, M.G (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New Delhi : Springer India : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2015.
• Θέματα: Hydrogeology.; Mathematical optimization.; Law of the sea.; International law.; Marine sciences.; Freshwater.; Environmental economics.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Economics.; Environmental Economics.; Marine & Freshwater Sciences.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.; Optimization.; Law of the Sea, Air and Outer Space.

This book uses resource economics costing approaches incorporating externalities to estimate the returns for the country’s irrigation, and demonstrates how underestimating the cost of water leads farmers to overestimate profits. The importance of the subject can be judged in light of the fact that I...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Water for Irrigation: An overview
• 2. Externality in Irrigation
• 3. Unidirectional and Reciprocal externality in irrigation
• 4. Sand Mining Externality
• 5. Relationship between rainfall and recharge
• 6. Marginal productivity of Water
• 7. Costing water for irrigation
• 8. Locating interference and valuing water
• 9. Demand side economics of Micro irrigation
• 10. Supply side economic contribution watershed program to groundwater recharge
• 11. Water markets
• 12. Sustainable path of extraction of Ground water in tank and canal command areas
• 13. Water Policy
• 14. Payment for ecosystem services (PES) for water
• 15. Economics of artificial recharge of borewell in hard rock areas.