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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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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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Policies Towards a Sustainable Use of Water in Spain

Fuentes, Andrés - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2011

Spain uses its natural water resources intensively, mostly in agriculture, thanks to a highly developed dam infrastructure. The limits for extraction of natural resources have largely been reached and climate change is expected to continue lowering natural water endowments markedly in future...

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Dynamics of irrigation institutions: Case study of village panchayat in Kerala

Menon, Vineetha; Paul, Antonyto; Nair, K.N. - Centre for Development Studies (CDS) - 2005

rights, the study identifies the significant factors that contribute to the success and sustainability of irrigation …

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Combining the Water Framework Directive with Agricultural Policy Scenarios: A Multi-Objective Analysis for the Future of Irrigated Agricultural in Portugal

Pinheiro, António Cipriano A.; Saraiva, João Paulo - Departamento de Economia, Universidade de Évora - 2005

It is clear that the successful management of water resources must take into account the influence of policies affecting the irrigated agriculture sector. Among these, the importance of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) is well recognised. In...

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On the Environmental Efficiency of Water Storage: The Case of a Conjunctive Use of Ground and Rainwater

Stahn, Hubert; Tomini, Agnès - 2014

Rainwater harvesting, consisting in collecting runoff from precipitation, has been widely developed to stop groundwater declines and even raise water tables. However this expected environmental effect is not self-evident. We show in a simple setting that the success of this conjunctive use...

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Implications of current and alternative water allocation policies in the Bow River Sub Basin of Southern Alberta

Ali, Md Kamar; Klein, K.K. - In: Agricultural Water Management 133 (2014) C, pp. 1-11

In this study, economic implications of allocating surface water with the existing policy (seniority rule) and three other alternative (People First, proportional reduction, and trading) policies are investigated to address potential water scarcities in the Bow River Sub Basin (BRSB) of Southern...

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A policy of demand-driven management for agricultural water use in Japan

Sakurai, Katsuhiro; Nakamura, Ataru; Kobayashi, Shintaro; … - European Regional Science Association - 2014

To this day in Japan, the water supply service for agricultural use has been formed as the supply-driven system. In fact, the farmers can use the utilization volume of agricultural water and they have to pay the price of agricultural water fee decided by water supplier side. However, diverse...

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Proportional water sharing vs. seniority-based allocation in the Bow River basin of Southern Alberta

He, Lixia; Horbulyk, Theodore M.; Ali, Md. Kamar; Le … - In: Agricultural Water Management 104 (2012) C, pp. 21-31

We analyze the implications of switching from existing seniority-based allocations to proportional water sharing policies in times of water shortage in the Bow River Sub-Basin in Southern Alberta. In particular, we simulate three variations of the proportional water sharing concept: (1)...

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