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Climate Change, Water Scarcity in Agriculture and the Economy-Wide Impacts in a CGE Framework
Ponce, Roberto; Parrado, Ramiro; Stehr, Alejandra; … - 2016
, precipitation changes, and unitary irrigation costs. Results suggest different economic consequences of climate change depending on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011597546
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Integrating climate policies in the European environment: A policy report
Carraro, Carlo; Goria, Alessandra - 1999
This report summarises the main ideas, proposals, scientific achievements, consensus and conflicting issues that emerged at the Second EFIEA Policy Workshop, held at Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Palazzo delle Stelline, Corso Magenta 63, Milan, Italy, March 4th-6th, 1999. EFIEA, the European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608510
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Inducing environmental co-operation by the design of emission permits
Ohl, Cornelia - 2002
Strategies of international risk management, as the implementation of tradable emission permits, feed back to the incentive structure of a treaty, like the Kyoto Protocol. Discussing the Kyoto Protocol the question was: Should there be any restrictions on the trading of emission permits or not?...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335714
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Basinwide water management: A spatial model
Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Umetsu, Chieko - 2000
farmers switch from traditional to modern irrigation technology. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608609
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Simple Myths and Basic Maths about Greening Irrigation
Gómez, Carlos M.; Pérez-Blanco, C. Dionisio - 2015
irrigation techniques seem not to be contributing to reduce water scarcity and increase drought resiliency. In fact, according to … appear. This basic model is expected to serve as guidance for assessing the actual outcomes of increasing irrigation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307246
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Multi-criteria analysis and decision-support for water management at the catchment scale: An application to diffuse pollution control in the Venice Lagoon
Giupponi, Carlo; Rosato, Paolo - 2002
Water pollution in the Venice Lagoon and its catchment is a main environmental issue. In Italy public funds are made available by specific national and regional regulations in order to support the realisation of initiatives for the abatement of pollutant loads that travel from the catchment into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335699
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Optimal exploitation of groundwater and the potential for a tradable permit system in irrigated agriculture
Latinopoulos, Dionysis; Sartzetakis, Eftichios - 2011
A great challenge facing future agricultural water policy is to explore the potential for transition from the current myopic competitive (common) exploitation of groundwater resources to a long-term efficient and sustainable allocation. A number of economic and/or command and control instruments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279403
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Integrating water resources into computable general equilibrium models: A survey
Ponce, Roberto; Bosello, Francesco; Giupponi, Carlo - 2012
water allocation, irrigation policies, and climate change, among others water related issues. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294281
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Input use and capacity constraint under uncertainty: The case of irrigation
Bontems, Philippe; Favard, Pascal - 2002
In this paper we consider a two periods model of cropping using irrigation. The farmer takes two kind of decisions, one … related to the level of investment in irrigation capacity and the other one to the irrigation level in each period. In the … period. Assuming a CARA utility function, we show that taxing the investment may entail an increase in preventive irrigation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335744
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An option approach to water delegation
Clark, Ephraim A.; Mondello, Gérard - 1997
The problem that we address in this paper stems from the trend to delegation in the water management field. The problem that we address refers to the municipality's negotiating disadvantage in the face of some cartelized water management. We discuss the specific characteristics of the delegation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608357