Water and Agricultural Sustainability Strategies

A compilation of peer-reviewed contributions, this book covers water management and agricultural sustainability in conditions of a changing climate, an increasing world population, and expected shortages of food and potable water. It brings together the expertise of agronomists, soil scientists, economists, and geneticists to examine the problems for water scarcity around the world and to offer appropriate solutions. The chapters discuss use of water management strategies to achieve agricultural sustainability, how irrigation to prevent or phytoremediate groundwater contaminated with arsenic, water management in different agroclimatic environments, and biotechnological applications that endow crops with drought tolerance.