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020			_a978-971-564-076-3 (softbound/printed version)
040			_aCvSU-CCAT Campus Library. _bEnglish. _cCvSU-CCAT Campus Library. _erda.
050			_aFIL S 616.P6 _bR48 2021
245			_aRevitalizing Philippine irrigation A systems and governance assessment for the 21st century / _cedite by Roehlano M. Briones.
260			_aQuezon City : _bPhilippine Institute for Development Studies, _c[c2021].
300			_axxiv, 234 pages : _billustrations ; _c21 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
520			_aAfter years of relative neglect, irrigation has again emerged as the single largest budgetary outlay in government-funded agricultural programs after the world rice price crisis of 2008. Since then, priority for irrigation and rice agriculture has been sustained over three administrations. Never has the goal of closing the gap between actual and potential irrigable area been nearer than today. This volume has evaluated the resurgent irrigation development program to date, covering national systems, communal systems, and various program considerations, such as water resource assessment, governance issues, recent policy shifts (e.g., Free Irrigation Service Act), and benefit-cost comparison. The analysis will hopefully serve as input to the continued implementation of the irrigation development program, which, as argued earlier, has yet a long way to go. The assessment has sought to combine both field-based qualitative and ocular assessment, with state-of-the-art quantitative assessment (including hydraulic and economic modeling). Based on this assessment, the authors offer a set of practical and hopefully useful recommendations, primarily for the National Irrigation Administration, as well as for the broad set of stakeholders in the national irrigation development agenda. This volume won the 2022 Outstanding Book Award from the National Academy of Science and Technology.
546			_aIn English text.
650			_aIrrigation -- Philippines. _97895
650			_aWater resources development -- Philippines. _97896
700			_aBriones, Roehlano M., editor. _97897
942			_cBK _hS 616.P6 R48 2021 _kFIL _2lcc
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