• search hit 8 of 19
Back to Result List

The Socio-Economic Framework: What Can be Learned from Earlier Failures?

  • Large-scale irrigation projects are theoretically beneficial; however there are examples of outstanding failures which partly led to ecological catastrophes. We think that irrigation per se does not necessarily lead to land degradation. Even in the famous case of the Mesopotamian plains, the idea that ancient Sumerian irrigation caused irreversible salinization [1] is far less evident than often assumed in the public discussion[2].

Export metadata

Additional Services

Search Google Scholar
Metadaten
Author: Iourii Nikolskii, Bernhard Lucke, Hendrike Helbron, Dmitry PalekhovORCiD
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10640-8_18
ISBN:978-3-642-10639-2
Title of the source (English):Progressive Development : To Mitigate the Negative Impact of Global Warming on the Semi-arid Regions
Publisher:Springer
Place of publication:Berlin [u.a.]
Editor: Aryē S. Issar
Document Type:Part of a book (chapter)
Language:English
Year of publication:2010
First Page:115
Last Page:117
Series ; volume number:Environmental Science and Engineering
Faculty/Chair:Fakultät 2 Umwelt und Naturwissenschaften / FG Umweltplanung
Institution name at the time of publication:Fakultät für Umweltwissenschaften und Verfahrenstechnik (eBTU) / LS Umweltplanung
Einverstanden ✔
Diese Webseite verwendet technisch erforderliche Session-Cookies. Durch die weitere Nutzung der Webseite stimmen Sie diesem zu. Unsere Datenschutzerklärung finden Sie hier.