Contents

Contributors

Series Foreword

1. The Agricultural Groundwater Revolution: Setting the Stage

I: The Situation: Overview of Regional and Topical Issues

2. The Groundwater Economy of South Asia: An Assessment of Size, Significance and Socio-ecological Impacts

3. The Development, Challenges and Management of Groundwater in Rural China

4. Rural Economic Transitions: Groundwater Use in the Middle East and Its Environmental Consequences

5. Sub-Saharan Africa: Opportunistic Exploitation

6. Groundwater in Central America: Its Importance, Development and Use, with Particular Reference to Its Role in Irrigated Agriculture

II: Current Management Paradigms

7. Community Management of Groundwater

8. Instruments and Institutions for Groundwater Management

9. When the Well Runs Dry but Livelihood Continues: Adaptive Responses to Groundwater Depletion and Strategies for Mitigating the Associated Impacts

III: Case Studies and Innovative Experience

10. The Groundwater Recharge Movement in India

11. Energy–Irrigation Nexus in South Asia: Improving Groundwater Conservation and Power Sector Viability

12. To Adapt or Not to Adapt: The Dilemma between Long-term Resource Management and Short-term Livelihood

13. Lessons from Intensive Groundwater Use In Spain: Economic and Social Benefits and Conflicts

14. Groundwater Management in the High Plains Aquifer in the USA: Legal Problems and Innovations

15. Institutional Directions in Groundwater Management in Australia

16. Sharing Groundwater Information, Knowledge and Experience on a Worldwide Scale

17. Groundwater Use in a Global Perspective – Can It be Managed?

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