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stakeholders beyond the irrigation community, to include more scientists or representatives of institutions protecting local … secteur de l’irrigation, dont les chercheurs et les représentants d’institutions qui protègent les écosystèmes locaux. Le bas …, especially in agriculture, where much irrigation water generates little value-added. The government has subsidised the use of …
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The environmental system is characterized by an interplay of geophysical and geochemical processes that provide a setting for life. Now that human interventions are affecting the global system as a whole, it is important to distinguish between changes of natural origin and changes brought about...
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farms. The results obtained show how pricing irrigation water will have a negative impact on farms’ sustainability, since … services. This work analyses the consequences of the hypothetical implementation of different instruments for irrigation water … pricing (area, volumetric, two-part tariff and block-rate), studying their impact on the sustainability of irrigated areas …
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The post-World War II era has witnessed a drastic increase in irrigation activities that have contributed substantially … distinction has to be made between the overall positive contribution of irrigation to agricultural productivity and economic … irrigation. In many cases, water resources have been overdeveloped; there has been overspending on capital; and significant costs …
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En este artículo se analiza la demanda urbana de agua en alta a partir de datos mensuales de 42 municipios situados en la cuenca del Segura, para el período 2000-2006. La estimación econométrica realizada permite afirmar que el precio, la renta y la población son las variables que mayor...
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Whereas the rational choice approach to international law has been widely accepted in legal scholarship and international relations theory, challenges to the rational choice paradigm in economic analysis of international law have hitherto not been systematically explored. Nevertheless,...
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This paper studies the effect of leadership on the level and evolution of pro-social behavior using an artefactual field experiment on local public good provision. Participants decide how much to contribute to an actual conservation project. They can then revise their donations after being...
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In this paper, I examine how the two dimensions of income inequality and ethnic diversity affect the formation of political coalitions and the reallocation of income. I construct a legislative bargaining model to analyze when coalitions form along the income dimension and when it forms along the...
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Whereas experimental studies of common pool resource (CPR) dilemmas are frequently terminated with collapse of the resource, there is considerable evidence in real-world settings that challenges this finding. To reconcile this difference, we propose a two-stage model that links appropriation of...
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