Tag: Irrigation

April 25, 2024

Irrigation, Salinity, and Rural Communities in Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin, 1945-2020

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Free Download Daniel Rothenburg, "Irrigation, Salinity, and Rural Communities in Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin, 1945-2020 "
English | ISBN: 3031184505 | 2023 | 321 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This book explores the issue of salinization in the context of contemporary conflicts about irrigation, water, and the environment in Australia, considering the Murray-Darling Basin in particular. It provides an environmental and social history charting the transformation of rural communities in the basin through the salinization of soils and water. Focusing on the Goulburn-Murray Irrigation district in the southwest of the Murray-Darling basin – the largest irrigation district in Australia – it explores the history of state-directed, large-scale engineering in the district, where the environment has been altered dramatically to facilitate white agricultural settlement inland. Changes to the landscape led to extensive salinization, however – a significant environmental threat in Australia. This book traces the impact of these changes on rural communities, taking a ‘bottom-up’ approach, highlighting the connections between environmental, social, and political change. It provides animportant reflection on the importance of environmental history for facing the challenges posed by anthropogenic climate change.

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April 25, 2024

Agri-Tech Approaches for Nutrients and Irrigation Water Management

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Free Download Agri-Tech Approaches for Nutrients and Irrigation Water Management
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032450231 | 406 Pages | PDF (True) | 34 MB
This book includes concepts, methodologies, and techniques used in soil nutrients and irrigation water management with regional and global prospects. This book accommodates up-to-date approaches to agricultural technologies along with future directions and compiles a wide range of articles ranging from soil moisture flow, nutrient dynamics, crop water estimation techniques, approaches to improve crop water productivity and soil health, crop simulation modeling, and remote sensing/GIS applications. The book also includes chapters on climate-resilient agriculture, advances in big data and machine-learning techniques, IoT, plasma technology, seed priming, and precision farming techniques and their environmental/economic impacts.

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