Sustainability of engineered rivers in arid lands [electronic resource] : challenge and response / edited by Jurgen Schmandt, Houston Advanced Research Center, the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, United States ; Aysegül Kibaroglu, MEF University, Istanbul, Regina Buono, University of Texas, Austin, Sephra Thomas, University of Texas, Austin.

"This interdisciplinary volume examines how nine arid or semi-arid river basins with thriving irrigated agriculture are doing now and how they may change between now and mid-century. The rivers studied are the Colorado, Euphrates-Tigris, Jucar, Limarí, Murray-Darling, Nile, Rio Grande, São Francis...

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