Water and sustainability in arid regions

Part I Contemporary Issues 1 Eco-reconstruction in Northwest China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Du Zheng and Yunhe Yin 2 Remote Sensing Assessment of Salinization Impacts in the Tarim Basin: The Delta Oasis of the Ugan and Kuqa Rivers . . . . 15 Tashpolat Tiyip, Gregory N. Taff, Hsiang-te Kung, and Fei Zhang 3 Estimating Net Primary Production in Xinjiang Through Remote Sensing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Guanghui LV, Weiguo Liu, Jiangjun Yang, and Entao Yu 4 The Recent Evolution of the Oasis Environment in the Taklimakan Desert, China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Yalikun Tashi, Philippe C. Chamard, Marie-Françoise Courel, Tashpolat Tiyip, Yiliminuer Tuerxun, and Sam Drake 5 High Demand in a Land of Water Scarcity: Iran . . . . . . . . . . 75 Gholamreza Zehtabian, Hassan Khosravi, and Marzieh Ghodsi 6 Common Scarcity, Diverse Responses in the Maghreb Region . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Yamna Djellouli-Tabet 7 Changing Water Resources and Food Supply in Arid Zones: Tunisia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Mustapha Besbes, Jamel Chahed, Abdelkader Hamdane, and Ghislain De Marsily Part II Learning from History 8 The Qanat: A Living History in Iran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Hassan Ahmadi, Aliakbar Nazari Samani, and Arash Malekian 9 Notes from the Turpan Basin: Pioneering Research on the Karez . 139 Iwao Kobori ix x Contents 10 An Introduction to the Khettara in Morocco: Two Contrasting Cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 Mohammed El Faiz and Thierry Ruf 11 Digitally Conserving an Endangered Built Heritage in Kashgar, an Oasis City of the Taklimakan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 Michel Florenzano, Marie-Françoise Courel, and Francesca De Domenico 12 The Taklimakan Oases: An Environmental Evolution Shown Through Geoarchaeology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 Corinne Debaine-Francfort, Françoise Debaine, and Abduressul Idriss Part III Management for Sustainability 13 How the Predominance of Water Resources Informs Management 205 Jean Margat 14 Conjunctive Water Management in the US Southwest . . . . . . . 221 Juan Valdes and Thomas Maddock III 15 Managing Water Amid Rapid Urbanization: Mexico’s North Borderlands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245 Nicolás Pineda-Pablos and Alejandro Salazar-Adams 16 Forecasting Streamflows in the San Juan River Basin in Argentina 261 Juan Carlos Gimenez, Emilio Juan Lentini, and Alicia Fernández Cirelli 17 Arsenic and Water Quality Challenges in South America . . . . . . 275 Alejo Pérez-Carrera and Alicia Fernández Cirelli 18 Evaluating the Restoration of Dryland Ecosystems in the Northern Mediterranean . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295 Susana Bautista, Barron J. Orr, José Antonio Alloza, and Ramón V. Vallejo 19 Old and New: Changing Paradigms in Arid Lands Water Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311 Charles F. Hutchinson, Robert G. Varady, and Sam Drake Glossary of Units of Measurement and Chemical Formulas . . . . . . . 333 Color Plates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347