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irrigation water use. We suggest that a policy relying on a “well-priced†substitutable resource would be greatly favoured by …
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The Ogallala Aquifer is the primary source of water for irrigation in the Texas High Plains. Depletion of the aquifer … irrigation to income, economic output, and employment in the region. …
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A water-crop simulation/mathematical programming model of irrigation water demand in northeastern Colorado is …
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Of water withdrawn for agricultural crop irrigation, a portion is consumed and the remainder comes back to the … hydrologic system as return flows. Previous models of irrigation water demand have mostly focused on the change in withdrawals in … planning. This study develops a simulation/mathematical programming model of water demand representing an irrigation company in …
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agriculture. Moreover, the new production structure accounts for substitution possibilities between irrigation and other primary … factors. The new model has been used to study a variety of topics including: irrigation efficiency, sustainable water use …
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The use of irrigation water for agricultural production requires innovative and sustainable research and an appropriate …
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Agriculture is the main water-using sector in Southern European Countries, such as Spain and Italy. Innovative institutional solutions for reducing water use or increasing its efficiency are pursued by recent legislation concerning water, in particular by the Water Framework Directive (WFD)....
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We use the new version of the GTAP-W model to analyze the economy-wide impacts of enhanced irrigation efficiency. The … to improvements in irrigation efficiency in water-stressed regions is not beneficial for all. For water-stressed regions … and mostly negative. Global water savings are achieved. Not only regions where irrigation efficiency changes are able to …
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, especially in agriculture, where much irrigation water generates little value-added. The government has subsidised the use of … more efficient irrigation technology at considerable budgetary cost, which has contributed to a modest reduction of water … use in irrigation in recent years. The participatory approach in water policy governance should be extended further to …
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We use the new version of the GTAP-W model to analyze the economy-wide impacts of enhanced irrigation efficiency. The … to improvements in irrigation efficiency in water-stressed regions is not beneficial for all. For water-stressed regions … and mostly negative. Global water savings are achieved. Not only regions where irrigation efficiency changes are able to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005818911