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THE IRRIGATION SECTOR SHIFT FROM CONSTRUCTION TO MODERNIZATION: WHAT IS REQUIRED FOR SUCCESS?
Author(s) -
Burt Charles M.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
irrigation and drainage
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.421
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1531-0361
pISSN - 1531-0353
DOI - 10.1002/ird.1703
Subject(s) - modernization theory , irrigation , commodity , bureaucracy , agriculture , business , natural resource economics , climate change , environmental economics , agricultural economics , economics , economic growth , political science , finance , geography , ecology , law , biology , archaeology , politics
ABSTRACT 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 & Sons, Ltd.