TY - BOOK AU - Wheatley, Keith TI - Agricultural water management : : insights and challenges SN - 9781632390592 PY - 2015/// CY - USA PB - Callisto Reference KW - Irrigation KW - Water resources development KW - Water supply N1 - Includes references and list of contributors N2 - Contents: Equity, profitability and irrigation water pricing. -- Irrigation water: alternative pricing schemes under uncertain climatic conditions. -- Irrigation development: a food security and household income perspective. -- Equity in access to irrigation water: a comparative analysis of tube- well irrigation system and conjunctive irrigation system. -- Effects of irrigation- water pricing on the profitability of Mediterranean woody crops. -- Water rights allocation, management and trading in an irrigation district- a case study of Northwestern China. -- irrigation institutions of Bangladesh: some lessons. -- Modelling, monitoring and assessment techniques. -- Modelling current and future Pan- European irrigation water demands and their impact on water resources. -- Basics and application of ground- penetrating radar as a tool for monitoring irrigation process. -- Using wireless sensor networks for precision irrigation scheduling. -- A low cost remote monitoring method for determining farmer irrigation practices and water use. -- Critical evaluation of different techniques for determining soil water content. -- Comparison of different irrigation methods based on the parametric evaluation approach in West North Ahwaz plain ER -