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Agricultural Use of Groundwater

Towards Integration Between Agricultural Policy and Water Resources Management

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  • © 2001

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Editors:
  1. Cesare Dosi

    1. University of Padova, Italy
      Fondazione Eni E. Mattei, Italy

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Part of the book series: Economics, Energy and Environment (ECGY, volume 17)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  3. Groundwater Use and the Value of Conservation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. Freshwater Availability and Groundwater Use in Southern Europe

      • Cesare Dosi, Stefania Tonin
      Pages 15-34

    3. Agricultural Impacts on Groundwater: Processes, Modelling and Decision Support

      • Andrea Giacomelli, Carlo Giupponi, Claudio Paniconi
      Pages 35-75

    4. Issues in the Valuation of Groundwater Benefits

      • Nir Becker, Stefania Tonin
      Pages 77-106

    5. Misconceptions in Aquifer Over-exploitation: Implications for Water Policy in Southern Europe

      • Nuria Hernández-Mora, Ramón Llamas, Luis Martínez Cortina
      Pages 107-126

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 291-302
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Groundwater is endangered and polluted in several ways. Conservation and better management of this invisible resource should be a key ingredient of sustainable water policies. This is especially true in areas, such as many Mediterranean regions, which are already exposed to scarcity problems and which are likely to experience increasing competition between freshwater uses and users. Agriculture is an important user of groundwater not only in terms of abstractions, but also in terms of generation and release of pollutants. Agricultural policies, traditionally directed towards other objectives, are beginning to pay more attention to environmental considerations. However more effective initiatives are required to reduce the pressure upon groundwater resources and to achieve a better integration between agricultural and environmental policies.
This book has been developed from three workshops held as part of the EU Concerted Action SAGA, "Sustainable Agricultural Use of Aquifers in Southern Europe: Integration between Agricultural and Water Management Policies" (FAIR5-CT97-3673). The Concerted Action and the workshops brought together researchers working in different but complementary fields, in order to get a picture of the state-of-the art about interlinkages between agriculture and groundwater, as well a critical review of alternative regulatory approaches and policy instruments aimed at improving groundwater management.

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  • University of Padova, Italy

    Cesare Dosi

  • Fondazione Eni E. Mattei, Italy

    Cesare Dosi

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