Water and agriculture sustainability, markets and policies
Agriculture is a major user of water and is responsible for much of its pollution. But the agricultural sector faces increasing competition for scarce water supplies from urban and industrial users and, increasingly, to sustain ecosystems. This conference proceedings explores how both governments a...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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OECD ; Co-distributed by IWA publishing
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| Summary: | Agriculture is a major user of water and is responsible for much of its pollution. But the agricultural sector faces increasing competition for scarce water supplies from urban and industrial users and, increasingly, to sustain ecosystems. This conference proceedings explores how both governments and the private sector can expand the role of markets to allocate water used by all sectors and to get agricultural producers to account for the pollution that their sector generates. |
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| Item Description: | "These proceedings bring together papers from the OECD Workshop on Water and Agriculture ... held on 14-18 November 2005 in Adelaide, Australia."--Acknowledgements. Edited by the Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, with OECD input from Kevin Parris and Theresa Poincet. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (483 p.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781281746849 9786611746841 9789264022577 |
