Sustainable irrigation is necessary and achievable, but direct costs and environmental impacts can be substantial

By D. Wichelns, J. Oster. 2006

166 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Ocean Engineering

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Erwin Schmid
2. Michael Obersteiner
3. Uwe A. Schneider
4. Richard S. J. Tol
5. Bruce A. McCarl
6. Pete Smith

Citations in the corpus

• A Review of Soil-Improving Cropping Systems for Soil Salinization (2019, background): “However, excess irrigation also increases the leaching of nutrients and other agrochemicals applied to the soils [48], and thus often degrades the quality of the water bodies receiving them [49,50].”
• Agriculture and resource availability in a changing world: The role of irrigation (2010, background): “With continuing population growth and limited potential to increase suitable cropland, irrigation becomes an increasingly important tool to ensure sufficient global supply of food in the future [ Wichelns and Oster, 2006 ].”