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文档介绍：THE AGRICULTURAL GROUNDWATER REVOLUTION
Opportunities and Threats to Development
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THE AGRICULTURAL
GROUNDWATER REVOLUTION
Opportunities and Threats
to Development
Edited by
Mark Giordano and Karen G. Villholth
International Water Management Institute
Colombo
Sri Lanka
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ISBN-13: 978 1 84593 172 8
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Contents
Contributors vii
Series Foreword xi
1. The Agricultural Groundwater Revolution: Setting the Stage 1
Mark Giordano and Karen G. Villholth
I The Situation: Overview of Regional and Topical Issues
2. The Groundwater Economy of South Asia: An Assessment 7
of Size, Significance and Socio-ecological Impacts
Tushaar Shah
3. The Development, Challenges and Management of Groundwater 37
in Rural China
Jinxia Wang, Jikun Huang, Amelia Blanke, Qiuqiong Huang
and Scott Rozelle
4. Rural Economic Transitions: Groundwater Use in the Middle 63
East and Its Environmental Consequences
. Tony Allan
5. Sub-Saharan Africa: Opportunistic Explo