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. These conference proceedings explore how both governments...
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| Format: | Conference Proceeding Book |
| Language: | English |
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[2006]
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| Online Access: | Connect to Water and agriculture : sustainability, markets and policies (online version) |
| 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. These conference proceedings explore 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.--Publisher's description |
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| Item Description: | "These proceedings bring together papers from the OECD Workshop on Water and Agriculture OECD Workshop on Water and Agriculture Sustainability, Markets and Policies held on 14-18 November 2005 in Adelaide, Australia"--P. 4. Edited by the Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, with OECD input from Kevin Parris and Theresa Poincet. |
| Physical Description: | 480 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm. Also available to subscribers via the World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9264022562 9789264022560 1843391295 9781843391296 |