THE IRRIGATION SECTOR SHIFT FROM CONSTRUCTION TO MODERNIZATION: WHAT IS REQUIRED FOR SUCCESS?1. (1st May 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Burt, Charles M.; Schultz, Bart
• Is Part Of: Irrigation and drainage. Volume 62:Number 3(2013:Jul.)
• Page Start: 247
• Page End: 254
• Publication Date: 2013-05-01
• Subjects: Irrigation engineering -- Periodicals; Drainage -- Periodicals; Flood control -- Periodicals; Sustainable agriculture -- Periodicals; 627.52
• DOI: 10.1002/ird.1703
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1531-0353

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="main"> <title>ABSTRACT</title> <p>External pressures related to environmental protection, commodity prices, energy availability, larger populations, and climate change have combined to require an immediate and substantial improvement in agricultural irrigation performance. Worldwide progression towards modernized irrigation projects has been uneven and slower than desired, but decades of irrigation modernization development have clarified certain requirements for success, as well as illuminated indicators of project failure. Of particular importance are required shifts within the state and national irrigation bureaucracies, as well as universities. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley &amp; Sons, Ltd.</p> </abstract>