Economics of salinity and drainage management in irrigated agriculture

Agricultural Drainage

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 1261-1283

  Knapp, Keith C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arid regions; Deep percolation flows; Drainwater management; Economic concepts; Irrigated agriculture; Microlevel analyses; Regional management issues; Soil salinity

Indexed keywords

EID: 85103057066     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780891182306.ch40     Document Type: Chapter

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