The Handbook of Irrigation Hydrology and Management examines and analyzes irrigated ecosystems in which water storage, applications, or drainage volumes are artificially controlled in the landscape and the spatial domain of processes varies from micrometers to tens of kilometers, while the temporal domain spans from seconds to centuries. The continuum science of irrigation hydrology includes the surface, subsurface (unsaturated and groundwater systems), atmospheric, and plant subsystems. Further, it presents numerous considerations including the selection of economically viable cropping patterns, land allocation by crop, water resource allocation by crop, irrigation scheduling, deficit management irrigation, optimizing crop yields, and more.
Volume
1. Part I: Irrigation Hydrology.
1. Irrigation Hydrology:
Landscape, Scales and Social Context.
2. Infiltration and Irrigation
Management.
3. Movement of Water in Soil. Part II: Evapotranspiration and
Water Requirements.
4. An Introduction to Soil-Water-Plant Relationship.
5.
Plant Evapotranspiration-Concepts and Problems.
6. Plant Water Requirements
and Evapotranspiration. Part III: Environmental and Economical Impacts.
7.
Environmental Impacts of Irrigation.
8. Environmental Impact Assessment of
Irrigation.
9. Economic Viability of Irrigation Techniques. Part IV: Earth
and Satellite Measurements for Irrigation.
10. Irrigation Water Measurement.
11. Irrigation and Agrometeorology: Innovative Remote Sensing Applications in
Crop Monitoring. Part V: Irrigation Water Quality Issues.
12. Irrigation for
Salinity Control.
13. Irrigation with Reclaimed Municipal Wastewater:
Opportunity or Risks.
14. Microbiology of Irrigation Water.
15. Phosphate and
Nitrate Management in Irrigation Water.
16. Use of Typha Latifolia as a Tool
for Biomonitoring of Domestic Effluents: Biochemical and Biomarkers Study.
Part VI: Water Harvesting for Irrigation.
17. Surface Runoff Water Harvesting
for Irrigation.
18. Water Harvesting for Rainfed Farming.
19. Optimization of
Reservoir Operation for Irrigation.
20. Reducing Nitrate Leaching and
Increasing Nitrogen Use Efficiency by Applying Nano-Fertilizers.
Volume 2: Part I: Solutions for Water Scarcity and Soil Salinity in
Irrigation.
1. Soil Salinity Measurement for Site-Specific Leaching.
2.
Deficit Irrigation: a Solution for Water Scarcity Conditions?
3. Irrigation
Assessment: Efficiency and Uniformity. Part II: Surface Irrigation.
4. Canal
Irrigation.
5. Ditch and Furrow Irrigation.
6. Level Basin Irrigation. Part
III: Pressure Irrigation.
7. A Review of Low Energy, High Efficiency
Alternatives for Center Pivot Irrigation Systems.
8. Sprinkler Irrigation
Systems.
9. Mini-Bubbler Irrigation.
10. Measured Irrigation. Part VI:
Subsurface Irrigation.
11. Qanat Irrigation Systems.
12. Subsurface
Drainage/Irrigation System in Paddy Fields.
13. Picher Irrigation as a Viable
Tool of Enhancing Nutrition and Livelihood of Small Scale Farmers.
14. Pot
Irrigation. Part V: Smart Irrigation.
15. Automation and Smart Irrigation.
16. Intelligent Irrigation and Automation.
17. Smart Irrigation in Urban
Development using Treated Wastewater Irrigation System and Management. Part
VI: Water Pumps for Irrigation.
18. Water Pumps for Irrigation: an
Introduction.
19. Pumps for Irrigation Systems.
20. Inverted Siphon
Implementation Method in Karun River for Farm Water.
Volume
3. Part I: Australian Experiences.
1. Irrigation Developments in
Australia: Historical Development of Irrigation.
2. Irrigation Developments
in Australia: Irrigation and Agricultural Production.
3. Optimisation of
Twinged Stormwater Storage for Golf Course Irrigation: a Case Study in
Sydney. Part II: African Case Studies.
4. Deficit Irrigation: A Review from
Ethiopia.
5. Investigating the Working Hydraulic Conditions of Gezira two
Main Canals in Sudan.
6. Plant Water Requirements and Evapotranspiration.
7.
Irrigation Practices in Moderately Warm Arid Areas of Sub-Sahara Africa.
8.
Choosing the Proper Irrigation Technique in Temperate Semi-Arid Zones. Part
III: Chinese Irrigation History.
9. History of Irrigation in China: Schedule
and Method Development.
10. History of Irrigation in China: Legislations and
Farmers Incentives. Part IV: American and Europe Irrigation Developments.
11. Irrigation Water Use in the USA.
12. Irrigation Developments in Brazil.
13. Irrigation Management in Romania. Part V. Water Scarcity and Irrigation
in India.
14. Water Resources and Irrigation Practices of Contemporary India.
15. Water Scarcity in India-An Evaluation prior to Independence.
16. Water
Scarcity in India: Irrigation Practices. Part VI: Middle East Irrigation and
Deficit Irrigation.
17. Middle East and Origin of Irrigation.
18. Deficit
Irrigation and Partial Root-Zone Drying Irrigation System in an Arid Area.
19. Paradigms Shaping the Adoption of Irrigation Technologies in Ghana.
20.
Over-Irrigation and Adverse Effects in Aral Sea Basin.
Dr. Saeid Eslamian is professor of Hydrology at Isfahan University of Technology, where he heads the Hydrology Research Group in the Department of Water Engineering. His research focuses mainly on statistical and environmental hydrology and climate change. In particular, he is working on modeling and prediction of natural hazards including flood, drought, storms, wind, groundwater drawdown, and pollution for arid and semi-arid zones, particularly in urban areas. He is also a Visiting Professor at Princeton University, and University of ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He has contributed to more than 300 publications in books, research journals, and technical reports or papers in conferences. He is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of both the International Journal of Hydrology Science and Technology and the Journal of Flood Engineering. He received ASCE and EWRI awards in 2009 and 2010 for his research.
Dr. Faezeh Eslamian current research focuses on the fate and transport of phosphorus through subsurface drained farmlands. Dr. Eslamian completed her PhD at McGill University, and her bachelors and masters degrees in civil and environmental engineering from Isfahan University of Technology, Iran, where she evaluated natural and low-cost absorbents for the removal of pollutants such as textile dyes and heavy metals. Furthermore, she has conducted research on the worldwide water quality standards, wastewater reuse, and drought guidelines.
