Contents -- Contributors -- Series Foreword -- 1. The Agricultural Groundwater Revolution: Setting the Stage -- I: The Situation: Overview of Regional and Topical Issues -- 2. The Groundwater Economy of South Asia: An Assessment of Size, Significance and Socio-ecological Impacts -- 3. The Development, Challenges and Management of Groundwater in Rural China -- 4. Rural Economic Transitions: Groundwater Use in the Middle East and Its Environmental Consequences -- 5. Sub-Saharan Africa: Opportunistic Exploitation -- 6. Groundwater in Central America: Its Importance, Development and Use, with Particular Reference to Its Role in Irrigated Agriculture -- II: Current Management Paradigms -- 7. Community Management of Groundwater -- 8. Instruments and Institutions for Groundwater Management -- 9. When the Well Runs Dry but Livelihood Continues: Adaptive Responses to Groundwater Depletion and Strategies for Mitigating the Associated Impacts -- III: Case Studies and Innovative Experience -- 10. The Groundwater Recharge Movement in India -- 11. Energy-Irrigation Nexus in South Asia: Improving Groundwater Conservation and Power Sector Viability -- 12. To Adapt or Not to Adapt: The Dilemma between Long-term Resource Management and Short-term Livelihood -- 13. Lessons from Intensive Groundwater Use In Spain: Economic and Social Benefits and Conflicts -- 14. Groundwater Management in the High Plains Aquifer in the USA: Legal Problems and Innovations -- 15. Institutional Directions in Groundwater Management in Australia -- 16. Sharing Groundwater Information, Knowledge and Experience on a Worldwide Scale -- 17. Groundwater Use in a Global Perspective - Can It be Managed? -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.