Salinity and drainage in San Joaquin Valley, California : science, technology, and policy [electronic resource] / Andrew C. Chang, Deborah Brawer Silva, editors.
Chang, Andrew C., editor of compilation.; Brawer Silva, Deborah, editor of compilation.
2014
S595
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Title
Salinity and drainage in San Joaquin Valley, California : science, technology, and policy [electronic resource] / Andrew C. Chang, Deborah Brawer Silva, editors.
ISBN
9789400768512 electronic book
9400768516 electronic book
9789400768505
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6851-2
Published
Dordrecht : Springer, 2014.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxiii, 409 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Item Number
10.1007/978-94-007-6851-2 doi
Call Number
S595
Dewey Decimal Classification
631.4/16
Summary
This book documents the history of irrigated agriculture and drainage in the San Joaquin Valley, and describes the hydrology and biogeochemical processes of salts and selenium, remediation technologies for salts and trace elements and policy and management options. The contents are comprised of fourteen chapter-length independent treatises, each depicting with fresh perspective a distinctive salinity drainage topic. The opening chapters detail the evolution of irrigated agriculture, and depict the geochemical and hydrological processes that define the San Joaquin Valley, including the physics, chemistry, and biology attributes that impact water management policies and strategies. Next, the contributors address the biogeochemistry of selenium, the role of plants in absorbing it from soils, and the processes involved in retaining and concentrating dissolved salts in drainage water. Further chapters describe on-farm and plot-level irrigation provisions to reduce agricultural drainage outputs and examine their effects on plant performance. This volume offers realistic policy analysis of water management options for irrigated agriculture in the Valley and assesses their respective outcomes, if implemented. Also included is an international perspective on the sustainability of irrigated agriculture there.
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Includes index.
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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed November 18, 2013).
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Chang, Andrew C., editor of compilation.
Brawer Silva, Deborah, editor of compilation.
Series
Global issues in water policy ; v.5. 2211-0631
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Chapter 1: E. W. Hilgard and the History of Irrigation in the San Joaquin Valley: Stunning Productivity, Slowly Undone by Inadequate Drainage
Chapter 2: Salinity and Drainage Problems and the Framework for a Response
Chapter 3: Scales and Scaling as a Framework for Synthesizing Irrigated Agroecosystem Research on the Westside San Joaquin Valley
Chapter 4: Biogeochemistry of Trace Elements: Reactions in Soils
Chapter 5: Uptake, Metabolism, and Volatilization of Selenium by Terrestrial Plants
Chapter 6: Microbial Volatilization and Reduction of Selenium
Chapter 7: Chemistry and Biology of Agricultural Evaporation Ponds
Chapter 8: Management of Evaporation Basins to Reduce and Avoid Adverse Impacts to Water Birds
Chapter 9: Integrated Irrigation and Drainage Water Management
Chapter 10: Drainage water reuse: Concepts, Practices and Potential Crops
Chapter 11: Membrane Desalination of Agricultural Drainage Water
Chapter 12: Advances in Wetland Salinity Management
Chapter 13: Regional Economics and Management in Closed Drainage Basins
Chapter 14: Beyond California: An International Perspective on Sustainability of Irrigated Agriculture
Index.

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