Salinity Management for Sustainable Irrigation : Integrating Science, Environment and Economics

Irrigation has long played a key role in feeding expanding populations and is expected to play a still greater role in the future.

However, is it sustainable? Can it remain in existence and function continuously and indefinitely?

Some pessimists doubt that it is. This volume presents a more positive approach with carefully conditional optimism.

It takes the diffuse, voluminous and disparate facts and combines them in a unified exposition.

It merges physico-chemical, agronomic, environmental and economic principles into practical recommendations to help ensure the long-term viability and productivity of irrigated agriculture in arid and semiarid regions.