Modeling water resources management at the basin level : methodology and application to the Maipo River Basin

XVII, 151 S.

graph. Darst., Kt.

Research report / International Food Policy Research Institute. - Washington, DC : IFPRI, ISSN 0886-7372, ZDB-ID 741342-7. - Vol. 149

Includes bibliographical references

Executive summary -- Introduction -- The Chilean context and the study basin -- Introduction -- The Maipo River Basin -- Challenges for water allocation in the basin -- Modeling framework -- The river basin network -- Hydrologic processes -- Economic components -- Institutional framework -- Model implementation, solution, and calibration -- Integration of model components -- Data management -- Solving the model -- Summary -- Basin-optimizing solution and sensitivity analyses -- Basin optimizing solution -- Sensitivity analyses -- Summary on the basin-optimizing solution -- Water trade analysis -- Introduction -- Scenario analysis of water rights and markets -- Summary of water trading analysis -- Water use efficiency analysis -- Introduction -- Efficiency indicators -- Efficiency changes responding to economic incentives -- Local infrastructure improvement and water availability -- Summary on water use efficiency -- Irrigation technology choices -- Introduction -- Irrigation technology choices vs water prices and salinity -- Irrigation technology choice under hydrologic uncertainty -- Summary on irrigation technology choices -- Water vs. other inputs? Analysis based on a... -- introduction -- Calibration of a holistic economic-hydrologic model -- Calibration algorithms -- Conclusions on input substitutions -- Conclusions and recommendations -- Findings -- Some technical concerns -- Future work

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