Living with Drought in the Irrigated Agriculture of the Ebro Basin (Spain): Structural and Water Management Actions

Drought in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions: A Multi-Disciplinary and Cross-Country Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 63-80

  Playan E ^a   Lecina, S ^b   Isidoro, D ^b   Aragues R ^b   Faci, J M ^b   Salvador, R ^a   Zapata, N ^a   Cavero, J ^a  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b Agrifood Institute of Aragón IA2   (Spain)

Author keywords

Database software; Ebro Basin; Irrigation modernization; Technological actions; Water users associations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84955650326     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6636-5_4     Document Type: Chapter

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