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State-Facilitated Bottom Up in Agricultural Water Governance and Sustainability of Solutions to Recurring Water Stress : A Case Study from Smallholders’ Perspective in Uzbekistan
Niyazmetov, Davron; Soliev, Ilkhom; Rudenko, Inna - 2020
Agricultural water stress is a critical problem undermining socioeconomic development and environmental sustainability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014101352
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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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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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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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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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Disenos alternativos para un indice de sostenibilidad agricola: el caso de la agricultura de regadio del Duero
Gomez-Limon, Jose - In: Revista Española de Estudios Agrosociales y Pesqueros (2008) 219
de indicadores sinteticos que cuantifiquen la sostenibilidad global de la actividad agricola. El caso de estudio … resultados obtenidos han permitido establecer una jerarquia de los escenarios politicos en funcion de sus sostenibilidad … agraria al objeto de aumentar la sostenibilidad de este sector...The aim of this paper is to carry out a comparative analysis …
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Trade-Offs in Water Policy : System-Wide Implications of Changing Water Availability and Agricultural Productivity in the Mediterranean Economies by 2050
Roson, Roberto - 2013
We evaluate the structural consequences of water availability scenarios in the Mediterranean, following a multidisciplinary approach and a sequential modelling methodology. This includes an assessment of future water availability and a general equilibrium macroeconomic analysis of changes in...
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Balancing the Discussion of Benefit Sharing in Transboundary Water Governance : Stressing the Long-Term Costs in an Empirical Example from Central Asia
Soliev, Ilkhom - 2020
Internationally the benefit sharing approach is promoted to encourage cooperation in transboundarywater governance. Costs of cooperation are so far under researched. Attention of few international studies is limited to benefit and cost sharing practices for dam projects. Here, the case study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012839672
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Water Management in Agriculture : Issues and Strategies in India
Hans, V. Basil - 2017
Water the critical resource of agriculture, has not been well managed in India, despite the country being an agricultural powerhouse. It has some 195 MH of land under cultivation of which some 62 per cent is rain-fed and 37 per cent, irrigated. Agriculture uses 85 per cent of the water resources...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012953894
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Water Management in Agriculture : Issues and Strategies in India
Hans, V. Basil - 2017
Water the critical resource of agriculture, has not been well managed in India, despite the country being an agricultural powerhouse. It has some 195 MH of land under cultivation of which some 62 per cent is rain-fed and 37 per cent, irrigated. Agriculture uses 85 per cent of the water resources...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943365