Table of Contents:
  • The Agricultural Groundwater Revolution : Setting the Stage / Mark Giordano and Karen G. Villholth
  • The Groundwater Economy of South Asia : An Assessment of Size, Significance and Socio-ecological Impacts / Tushaar Shah
  • The Development, Challenges and Management of Groundwater in Rural China / Jinxia Wang, Jikun Huang, Amelia Blanke, Qiuqiong Huang and Scott Rozelle
  • Rural Economic Transitions : Groundwater Use in the Middle East and Its Environmental Consequences / J.A. Tony Allan
  • Sub-Saharan Africa : Opportunistic Exploitation / Mutsa Masiyandima and Mark F. Giordano
  • Groundwater in Central America : Its Importance, Development and Use, with Particular Reference to Its Role in Irrigated Agriculture / Maureen Ballestero, Virginia Reyes and Yamileth Astorga
  • Community Management of Groundwater / Edella Schlager
  • Instruments and Institutions for Groundwater Management / Karin Erika Kemper
  • When the Well Runs Dry but Livelihood Continues : Adaptive Responses to Groundwater Depletion and Strategies for Mitigating the Associated Impacts / Marcus Moench
  • The Groundwater Recharge Movement in India / Ramaswamy Sakthivadivel
  • Energy-Irrigation Nexus in South Asia : Improving Groundwater Conservation and Power Sector Viability / Tushaar Shah, Christopher Scott, Avinash Kishore and Abhishek Sharma
  • To Adapt or Not to Adapt : The Dilemma between Long-term Resource Management and Short-term Livelihood / Srinivas Mudrakartha
  • Lessons from Intensive Groundwater Use In Spain : Economic and Social Benefits and Conflicts / M. Ramón Llamas and Alberto Garrido
  • Groundwater Management in the High Plains Aquifer in the USA : Legal Problems and Innovations / John C. Peck
  • Institutional Directions in Groundwater Management in Australia / Hugh Turral and Imogen Fullagar
  • Sharing Groundwater Information, Knowledge and Experience on a Worldwide Scale / Jac A.M. van der Gun
  • Groundwater Use in a Global Perspective : Can It be Managed? / Karen G. Villholth and Mark Giordano.