Comments on: When the Rivers Run Dry by Fred Pearce

By: Michael Pollan on Deep Agriculture | Amateur Earthling

Michael Pollan on Deep Agriculture | Amateur Earthling — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 08:18:23 +0000

[...] the next couple of centuries without a catastrophe). They need to do the same kinds of things (water management, nutrient cycling, soil preservation, resilience against pests and diseases) that our ancestors [...]

By: Nuclear Energy by David Bodansky | Amateur Earthling

Nuclear Energy by David Bodansky | Amateur Earthling — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 08:16:42 +0000

[...] impact on humanity, when compared with other things we routinely ignore as a species, like the salinization of our soils through dry land irrigation, or the instability of our climate, or genocide, or malaria, or [...]

By: Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations by David Montgomery | Amateur Earthling

Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations by David Montgomery | Amateur Earthling — Wed, 12 May 2010 21:52:58 +0000

[...] Montgomery’s Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations reminded me a lot of When the Rivers Run Dry by Fred Pearce, except that instead of looking at how we have allocated our water resources globally, it focuses [...]

By: Energy at the Crossroads by Vaclav Smil (Part 2 of 2) | Amateur Earthling

Energy at the Crossroads by Vaclav Smil (Part 2 of 2) | Amateur Earthling — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:20:52 +0000

[...] flood management capabilities are fundamentally at odds with their power generating ability (see When the Rivers Run Dry by Fred Pearce and Cadillac Desert for more…). I had no idea that there were 20GW (10 times the size of [...]

By: Zane Selvans

Zane Selvans — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:41:38 +0000

And here's a recent review article that's relevant: Developing salt-tolerant crop plants: challenges and opportunities by Toshio Yamaguchi and Eduardo Blumwald (Trends in Plant Science Vol.10 No.12 December 2005)

By: Zane Selvans

Zane Selvans — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:07:57 +0000

There's also a relatively recent study by the World Bank: Salinity management for sustainable irrigation: integrating science, environment, and economics By Daniel Hillel. Should see if I can find it in a library...