La Región de Murcia, a laboratory of experiments savings and efficiency in the use of water: Modernization of irrigation in agrarian and environmental politics of the European Union

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  • Encarnación Gil Meseguer
Keywords: modernization of irrigation, region of Murcia, agrarian and environmental politics, European Union

Abstract

Water has become in a good very controversial, a bad distributed resource and it worries who has its control in these last years. The modernization of irrigation is interested because it has a space, social, economical, water distribution importance. The Region of Murcia, in recent years has become a laboratory of experience of modernization of irrigation.

In the European Union, the improvement and modernization of irrigation participate of the Common Agrarian Politic (PAC) and the Rural Development, and they also participate of the Environmental Politic (2000/60/CE Directive) and the Sustainable Development.

The new Sustainable Irrigation Plan «Horizon 2013» must collect the Lisboan Strategy proposals about job and competitively and the Gotemburg Declaration proposals about historical and environmental value.

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Gil Meseguer, E. (2010). La Región de Murcia, a laboratory of experiments savings and efficiency in the use of water: Modernization of irrigation in agrarian and environmental politics of the European Union. Geography Papers, (51-52), 131–145. Retrieved from https://revistas.um.es/geografia/article/view/114461
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