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Optimal Exploitation of Groundwater and the Potential for a Tradable Permit System in Irrigated Agriculture
Latinopoulos, Dionysis; Sartzetakis, Eftichios - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 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/10009002696
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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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Clean Technological Change in Developing-Country Industrial Clusters: Mexican Leather Tanning
Blackman, Allen; Kildegaard, Arne - 2003
, Guanajuato— Mexico’s leather capital—to econometrically identify the factors that drive the adoption of three clean tanning …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005242920
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The Welfare Costs of Unreliable Water Service
Davis, Lucas W. - 2011
model is calibrated using survey data from Mexico City, a city where many households store water in sealed rooftop tanks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124075
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Water management strategies in urban Mexico: Limitations of the privatization debate
Barkin, David; Klooster, Daniel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
case studies. Although privatization might have some role to play in improving the performance of certain functions of …, the privatization solution has proved incapable of tackling the very serious problems of environmental destruction and the … over-exploitation of finite water sources that plague the country. Our review of water management in Mexico, therefore …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004992037
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Public opinion about the irrigated agriculture and its contribution on social welfare
Gómez-Limón, José A.; Gómez Ramos, Almudena - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2007) 10, pp. 81-108
The Water Framework Directive requires a public participation into the new water planning process. This paper develops an analysis of the public opinion about the irrigated agriculture in Castilla y León as a previous step for the design of an active and successful participation process. In...
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Evaluación del impacto de la tarifación del agua de riego sobre la sostenibilidad del regadío: una aproximación a través de indicadores sintéticos/Impact assessment of irrigation w...
GALLEGO-AYALA, JORDI; GÓMEZ-LIMÓN RODRÍGUEZ, JOSÉ A. - In: Estudios de Economía Aplicada 28 (2010) Agosto, pp. 375-404
La Directiva Marco de Aguas exige la introducción de tarifas para la recuperación de los costes del agua. Este trabajo analiza las consecuencias de la hipotética implementación de diferentes formas de tarifación del agua de riego (por superficie, volumétrica, binómica y por tramos),...
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Water scarcity and agricultural growth in Spain: from curse to blessing?
Cazcarro, Ignacio; Duarte, Rosa; Martín-Retortillo, Miguel - Asociación Española de Historia Económica - AEHE - 2014
This working paper discusses how natural resource scarcity (aridity, in the case of Spanish agriculture) encouraged the process of frontier expansion defined by Barbier, meaning the exploitation of new, relatively abundant resources (water) for production purposes. Water for irrigated...
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Coastal Groundwater Management with Nearshore Resource Interactions
Pongkijvorasin, Sittidaj; Roumasset, James; Thomas … - Department of Economics, University of Hawaii-Manoa - 2007
This paper develops a regional hydrologic-ecologic-economic model of groundwater use and a nearshore ecosystem. Particularly, we model coastal groundwater management and its effects on discharge, nearshore water quality, and marine biota (e.g., indigenous marine algae). We show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005824199
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Comparing Permit Allocation Options: The Main Points
Bohm, Peter - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2002
In discussions about the policy design of domestic emission trading, e.g., when implementing the <p> Kyoto Protocol, the two permit allocation alternatives ­ auctioning and allocation gratis <p> (grandfathering) ­ are often pitted against each other as representing utopian cost-effectiveness and <p>...</p></p></p>
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