Water Management and Agricultural Development: A Case Study of the Cuyo Region of Argentina [Hardcover]

'... The reader will be impressed with [Frederick's] recommendations, also with the overall methodology and systematic analysis of [the region's] water problem... This monograph may...serve as a model for studying similar agricultural areas...'Agricultural HistoryChapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 historical growth of agriculture and water use; Chapter 3 the role of government; Chapter 4 the past as prologue; Chapter 5 water use efficiency; Chapter 6 farm level implications of rising water costs and alternative government policies; Chapter 7 alternative growth patterns within Cuyo; Chapter 8 summary and conclusions;First Published in 2011. Water is a scarce resource in the arid zones of Latin America and is sure to become more so. Population growth and rising income, coupled with rapid urbanization, assure continued steep increases in demand for water for irrigation and for industrial and municipal uses. This monograph offers an overall methodology and systematic analysis of a regions water problem.Professor Kenneth D Frederick (Resources for the Future, Washington D.C., USA)USFirst edition ? The Johns Hopkins University Press 1975