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Title Water, agriculture, and sustainable well-being / edited by Unai Pascual, Amita Shah, Jayanta Bandyopadhyay
Published New Delhi ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009

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Description xv, 301 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Series Ecological economics and human well-being
Ecological economics and human well-being.
Contents Contents note continued: 8.Assessing Drought Risk and Vulnerability; Bolangir District in Orissa, India / Mrutyunjay Swain / Mamata Swain -- 9.Promoting Sustainable Agricultural Land Use Systems: Policy Options for Hills and Mountains / Golam Rasul -- 10.Climbing the Pesticide Treadmill into the Debt Trap: The Dynamics of Pesticide Use and Farmer Indebtedness in Andhra Pradesh, India / Rimjhim M. Aggarwal -- 11.Valuing Benefits of Soil Conservation in Hill Areas of Bangladesh / M. A. Monayem Miah / S. M. Fakhrul Islam -- 12.Adoption of Soil Conservation Measures in Belgium: Application of the Theory of Planned Behaviour / Erik Mathijs / Erwin wauters
Machine generated contents note: 1.Valuing Health Damages from Arsenic Contamination: A Willingness to Pay and Dose Response Approach / Achiransu Acharyya -- 2.Groundwater Contamination: An Example from Bangladesh / Unai Pascual / David Maddison / Eleanor Field / Zubaida Choudhury -- 3.Sustainable Solutions to Arsenic Contamination of Groundwater: The Ganga-Meghna-Brahmaputra Basin / Atanu Sarkar -- 4.Farmers as Producers of Clean Water: A Field Experiment / Peter Maille / Alan Collins -- 5.The Fundamentals of Physical Hydronomics: A Novel Approach for Physico-Chemical Water Valuation / Joan Escriu / Amaya Martinez / Alicia Valero / Javier Uche / Antonio Valero / Jose Manuel Naredo -- 6.Good Ecology is Good Economics: Sustainabiliry of Food Security / Deepa Varma -- 7.Agriculture and Environment: Competitiveness and Comparative Advantage in North-South Context / Amita Shah --
Summary Contributed articles
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Soil moisture conservation.
Sustainable agriculture.
Water in agriculture -- Environmental aspects -- Case studies.
Water in agriculture -- Environmental aspects.
Water resources development -- Case studies.
Water resources development.
Water-supply, Agricultural -- Environmental aspects -- Case studies.
Water -- Pollution -- Health aspects.
Water-supply, Agricultural -- Environmental aspects.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Author Bandyopadhyay, J.
Pascual, Unai, 1973-
Shah, Amita, 1952-
LC no. 2009305119
ISBN 0198061757 (hbk.)
9780198061755 (hbk.)