Water, agriculture, and sustainable well-Being

The book is a scholarly presentation on various issues pertaining to water resource management and agriculture practices. These include water contaminationand health; trade-off between private benefits and sustainable development; and trade and environment. The volume makes a significant contribution to methodologies for assessing environmental and economic costs and identification of appropriate policy framework for abatement. A special feature of the book is that it seeks to integrate the issues of suitability across water use for humanconsumption and for agricultural production by exploring a broad conceptual framework. Case studies from a number of countries such as India, Bangladesh, Belgium, and the European Union are covered. INDICE: Foreword; Introduction; 1.: Valuing Health Damages from Arsenic Contamination; 2.: Trade-offs between Risk and Latency of Health Hazards from Groundwater Contamination; 3.: Sustainable Solutions to Arsenic Contamination ofGround Water; 4.: Farmers as Producers of Clean Water; 5.: The Fundamentals of Physical Hydronomics; 6.: Good Ecology is Good Economics; 7.: Agriculture and Environment; 8.: Assessing Drought Risk and Vulnerability; 9.: Exploring Policy Options for Promoting Sustainable Agricultural Land Use Systems in Hills and Mountains; 10.: Climbing the Pesticide Treadmill into the Debt Trap; 11.: Valuing Benefits of Soil Conservation in Hill Areas of Bangladesh; 12.: Adoption of Soil Conservation Measures in Belgium; Index.

• ISBN: 978-0-19-806175-5
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 318
• Fecha Publicación: 08/10/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés