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Irrigation water pricing between governmental policies and farmers’ perception: Implications for green-houses horticultural production in Teboulba (Tunisia)

Chebil, Ali; Frija, Aymen; Thabet, Chokri - 2010

A positive mathematical programming model was constructed in this study to assess theeffect of three water pricing scenarios on Teboulba’s agricultural production systems.The effects of these scenarios were estimated for three groups of farmers from three irrigated districts. Results show that...

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Irrigation water pricing between governmental policies and farmersâ€™ perception: Implications for green-houses horticultural production in Teboulba (Tunisia)

Chebil, Ali; Frija, Aymen; Thabet, Chokri - In: Agricultural Economics Review 11 (2010) 2

A positive mathematical programming model was constructed in this study to assess the effect of three water pricing scenarios on Teboulbaâ€™s agricultural production systems. The effects of these scenarios were estimated for three groups of farmers from three irrigated districts. Results...

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Residential Water Consumption: A Cross Country Analysis

Grafton, R. Quentin; Kompas, Tom; To, Hang; Ward, Michael B. - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2009

Survey data from over 1,600 households in ten countries were used to analyse the determinants of residential water demand. Results show that in every country the price elasticity is negative and statistically significant. Households that do not have to pay for the water they use (volumetric...

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The role of Water Framework Directive in the development of rural areas

Mioduszewski, Waldemar - In: Rural Areas and Development 4

The Water Framework Directive (WFD), whose basic aim was to create a legal backgroundfor water bodies 'protection, undoubtedly affects all economic sectors. Being a specific and distinctly different water user, agriculture will have the greatest share in the implementation of WFD out of all...

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Assessing programmes for the provision of agri-environmental services – An efficiency analysis realized in Southern Germany

Kantelhardt, Jochen; Eckstein, Karin; Hoffmann, Helmut - International Association of Agricultural Economists - IAAE - 2009

examined whether farms are able to succeed in combining environmental and economic efficiency. As study object serves a South … environmental and economic efficiency. We conclude that DEA is a suitable instrument for assessing agri-environmental programmes. …

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Using Environmental Offsets in Wetlands Management

Duncan, Roderick; Morrison, Mark - 2008

Environmental offsets have been proposed as a technique for managing the environmental impacts of newdevelopments in regions that are not in compliance with environmental standards. By requiring developersto 'offset' any impacts by purchasing 'environmental credits', environmental quality can be...

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The tragedy of the commons: property rights and markets as solutions to resource and environmental problems

Libecap, Gary D. - In: Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 53 (2009) 1

In one way or another, all environmental and natural resource problems associated with overexploitation or under provision of public goods, arise from incompletely defined and enforced property rights. As a result private decision makers do not consider or internalize social benefits and costs...

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Equity and Efficiency Tradeoffs in Water: Prospects for Choice Modelling

Cooper, Bethany; Crase, Lin - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2006

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Using Environmental Offsets in Wetlands Management

Duncan, Roderick; Morrison, Mark - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2008

and valuing environmental service flows. We also discuss a number of factors that influence the effectiveness efficiency …

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Modeling International Trends in Energy Efficiency and Carbon Emissions

Stern, David I. - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010

This study uses a stochastic production frontier to model energy efficiency trends, in 85 countries over a 37 year … and a theoretical model of energy-efficient technology choice. An improvement in a country’s energy efficiency is measured … across countries. The study shows that energy efficiency rises with increasing general total factor productivity. Energy …

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