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The impact of irrigated agriculture on child nutrition outcomes in southern Ghana Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2020-12-23 Charles Y. Okyere; Muhammed A. Usman
In this study, we investigated whether irrigated agriculture results in improved child nutrition outcomes among farm households in southern Ghana. Using panel data collected between 2014 and 2015, this study seeks to add to the growing body of literature on the determinants of irrigated agriculture adoption, its effects on child nutrition, and the potential pathways through which irrigation can affect
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Competition between different groundwater uses under water scarcity Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2020-12-17 Julia de Frutos Cachorro; Jesús Marín-Solano; Jorge Navas
We study groundwater management under a regime shock affecting water availability, using a dynamic common-property resource game. The different players correspond to different groundwater uses (irrigation or urban water supply), enabling us to consider competition between economic sectors for the stock with limited availability. The players have different water demand functions and, under certain circumstances
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Impact of participatory irrigation management on mulched drip irrigation technology adoption in rural Xinjiang, China Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2020-11-21 Fangping Rao; Abudureheman Abudikeranmu; Xiaoping Shi; Nico Heerink; Xianlei Ma
Reforms in irrigation management can make important contributions to reducing irrigation water scarcity. This paper attempts to examine the role of participatory irrigation management (PIM) in farmers’ mulched drip irrigation technology adoption decisions. It is based on a comparative analysis between government-promoted mulched drip irrigation technology (GMDIT) and localized self-governed mulched
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Response of residential water demand to dynamic pricing: Evidence from an online experiment Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2020-10-26 Riccardo Marzano; Charles Rougé; Paola Garrone; Julien J. Harou; Manuel Pulido-Velazquez
Urban water demand management is key to water supply sustainability in high-density, water-stressed areas throughout the world, and emerging technologies could transform it. In particular, smart metering could allow for conserving water by dynamically changing prices to reflect water scarcity and supply cost variability. Yet, little is known on end-users’ reaction to short-term price changes, an essential
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Cost-effectiveness of mussel farming as a water quality improvement measure: Agricultural, environmental and market drivers Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2020-10-24 Raphael Filippelli; Mette Termansen; Berit Hasler; Karen Timmermann; Jens Kjerulf Petersen
This study aims to understand the economic and bio-physical conditions under which mussel farming is a cost-effective mitigation measure to improve water quality related to excess nitrogen in fjords and coastal areas. We set-up a mixed-integer optimization model including every farm in three agricultural catchments surrounding Limfjorden, the largest fjord in Denmark. We include a number of relevant
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The potential contribution of oyster management to water quality goals in the Chesapeake Bay Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2020-09-16 Nikolaos Mykoniatis; Richard Ready
Excess nutrients have led to eutrophication of the Chesapeake Bay, USA. It has been suggested that oyster restoration can play an important role in achieving water quality goals in the Bay. An optimal control bioeconomic model is applied to the management of oysters in the Chesapeake Bay, taking into account nutrient removal by the oysters. Optimal management of oyster harvests in the Bay reduces the
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The impacts of three dimensions of (dis)similarities on water quality benefit transfer errors Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2020-07-30 Johannes Friedrich Carolus, Jette Bredahl Jacobsen, Søren Bøye Olsen
Benefit Transfer (BT) is often applied when a primary valuation study is considered too costly or time consuming to conduct. It is commonly assumed that BT performance improves with increasing similarity between study and policy sites. However, no common criteria for defining similarity exist, making it difficult to operationalise the concept of similarity in a practical BT context. We propose a structured
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Drinking water quality impacts on health care expenditures in the United States Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2020-07-22 Fahad Alzahrani; Alan R. Collins; Elham Erfanian
This research explores the relationship between episodes of contaminated drinking water and health care expenditures in the United States. The analysis relies on panel data from the 48 contiguous states from 2000 to 2011. We use the population served by public water systems that violate health-based standards of the Safe Drinking Water Act as a proxy for contaminated drinking water. We estimate spatial
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Exploiting unanticipated change in block rate pricing for water demand elasticities estimation: Evidence from Indonesian suburban area Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2020-07-18 Muhammad Halley Yudhistira; Prani Sastiono; Melly Meliyawati
We exploit sudden changes in the marginal tariff scheme to estimate the price elasticity of water demand using households' and firms' data in Tangerang Regency, a part of the Jakarta Greater Metropolitan Area, where water demand management is imperative due to the city's growing population and industrial activities. A monthly water consumption dataset at the consumer level is used in our study. Using
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Recovering water for the environment during droughts through public water banks within a monopsony-monopoly setting Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2020-07-15 José A. Gómez-Limón, Carlos Gutiérrez-Martín, Nazaret M. Montilla-López
Allocation trade is an instrument that has been widely used to recover water for the environment during periods of scarcity (droughts). This paper proposes a water bank operating within a monopsony-monopoly setting with the dual purpose of reallocating water among farmers and acquiring water for the environment during drought periods. The proposed water bank would be managed by a public agency seeking
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Economic valuation of supplemental irrigation via small-scale water harvesting Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2020-04-18 Francis Hypolite Kemeze
Agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries is predominantly rainfed, but SSA could develop greater dependence on supplemental irrigation due to a changing climate with greater rainfall uncertainty and higher frequency of dry spells. Supplemental irrigation through small-scale water harvesting (SSWH) plays a vital role in helping rainfed small-scale farmers overcome the risk of dry spells and
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Water demand in the Chilean manufacturing industry: Analysis of the economic value of water and demand elasticities Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2020-02-26 Felipe Vásquez-Lavín; Leonardo Vargas O; José I. Hernández; Roberto D. Ponce Oliva
In this article, we estimate both the economic value of water and own-price and cross-price elasticities of water for the Chilean manufacturing industry using the production function approach. Estimating the production function allows us to estimate the marginal productivity of water which corresponds to its economic value. Our estimations are based on panel data obtained from the National Industrial
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What do economic water storage valuations reveal about optimal vs. historical water management? Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2020-02-19 Majed Khadem; Charles Rougé; Julien J. Harou
What is the economic value of storing water for future droughts, and what are the consequences of this valuation for water management? One way to answer this question is to ask: ‘what is the valuation, which if used, would maximize a region's economic use of water?’ This prescriptive valuation can be done by linking classical hydro-economic models to global search methods. Another way to answer this
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The impact of El Nio-Southern Oscillation on U.S. food and agricultural stock returns Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2020-02-07 Bebonchu Atems; Michael Maresca; Baomei Ma; Emily McGraw
The paper examines the response of twelve U.S. agricultural stock returns to El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) shocks using a recursive VAR model. Baseline results indicate that for seven of the stock returns, an ENSO shock has positive and significant effects. The effects, however, are shortlived, generally becoming statistically indistinguishable from zero three to six months after the shock. Variance
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Spatio-temporal design for a water quality monitoring network maximizing the economic value of information to optimize the detection of accidental pollution Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2020-01-18 François Destandau; Youssef Zaiter
The reduction of damage due to water pollution requires good knowledge of the quality of surface waters. The Water Quality Monitoring Networks (WQMNs) have evolved over time according to the objectives of each one of them: knowledge of long-term quality evolution, search for the origin of pollution, detection of accidental pollution, etc. Information provided by WQMNs could be improved by a spatial
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(g)etting to the point: The problem with water risk and uncertainty Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2019-10-26 Adam Loch; David Adamson; Christopher Auricht
Where we may be aware that a problem exists, but have only an incomplete description of the drivers and/or possible management solutions, we will be unaware/uncertain about future returns from, and risks to, private and public investments in capital (i.e. social, natural, economic, cultural and political). This paper explores the unawareness/uncertainty problem by coupling Arrow's states of nature
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Balancing intersectoral demands in basin-scale planning: The case of Nepal's western river basins Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2019-10-18 Emily L. Pakhtigian, Marc Jeuland, Sanita Dhaubanjar, Vishnu Prasad Pandey
Basin-wide planning requires tools and strategies that allow comparison of alternative pathways and priorities at relevant spatial and temporal scales. In this paper, we apply a hydroeconomic model–the Western Nepal Energy Water Model–that better accounts for feedbacks between water and energy markets, to optimize water allocations across energy, agriculture, municipal, and environmental sectors. The
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Farmers′ preferences for reductions in flood risk under monetary and non-monetary payment modes Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2019-09-18 Ståle Navrud, Godwin K. Vondolia
We use a split-sample choice experiment to investigate the effects of alternative payment modes on the purchase of flood insurance among smallholder irrigation farmers in Ghana. Results show that insurance up-take is lower for insurance premium payments required in labour than comparable premiums required in harvest and money. The marginal willingness-to-pay for a one-year reduction in flood frequency
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Cost function approach to water protection in forestry Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2019-09-04 Jenni Miettinen, Markku Ollikainen, Mika Nieminen, Lauri Valsta
The European Water Framework Directive (WFD) strongly emphasizes that all water polluting sectors must enhance the protection of water bodies in a cost-effective way. River Basin Management Plans need to be made to achieve a good environmental status for all water bodies by 2027 at the latest. This article examines three principal water protection measures used in forestry: buffer zones, overland flow
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Urban water policy when environment inflows are uncertain Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2019-08-02 Hugh Sibly
An urban water network with storage and uncertain environmental water inflows is modelled. This three period model is analytically tractable, and allows for a straightforward study of the relative economic impact of different policy regimes. The model is used to identify the water authority's first best pricing policy, and its relation to long run marginal cost pricing. The model is then used to identify
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Economic evaluation of green water in cereal crop production: A production function approach Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2019-07-16 Ioanna Grammatikopoulou, Marta Sylla, Christos Zoumides
A great majority of agricultural water is provided by precipitation that is stored in soil moisture, defined as green water. This water evaporates or transpires through plants, and plays a determinative role in crop growth particularly for rainfed agriculture. This study aims to assess the economic value of green water production factor that has often been ignored in the literature, as the focus was
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A micro-scale cost-benefit analysis of building-level flood risk adaptation measures in Los Angeles Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2019-06-11 Lars T. de Ruig; Toon Haer; Hans de Moel; W.J.Wouter Botzen; Jeroen C.J.H. Aerts
Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) of flood risk adaptation strategies offers policymakers insight into economically optimal strategies for adapting to sea level rise. However, building-level adaptation measures such as floodproofing or building elevation are often evaluated at aggregated spatial scales, which may result in sub-optimal investment decisions. In this paper, we develop a flood risk model and
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Flood insurance demand and probability weighting: The influences of regret, worry, locus of control and the threshold of concern heuristic Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2019-04-24 Peter John Robinson, W.J.Wouter Botzen
Low-lying densely populated areas can be susceptible to flooding due to extreme river discharges. Insurance may be used to spread flood risk and reduce potential material damages. However, homeowners often purchase insufficient amounts of insurance against natural hazard risks like flooding, which may be due to the way they process probabilities. A common finding from (Cumulative) Prospect Theory is
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Combining flexible regulatory and economic instruments for agriculture water demand control under climate change in Beauce Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2019-03-28 N. Graveline
Agricultural water management is becoming a critical issue in many parts of the world and cost-effective water policies are required to control water use. We examine the case study of irrigated agriculture in Beauce, France (9750 km2, Europe's largest cereal producing region). We explore the mechanisms for water abstraction control involving a combination of regulatory and economic instruments. The
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Economic and food security effects of small-scale irrigation technologies in northern Ghana Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2019-03-21 Bedru B. Balana, Jean-Claude Bizimana, James W. Richardson, Nicole Lefore, Zenebe Adimassu, Brian K. Herbst
Small-scale irrigation (SSI) technologies can be useful not only to increase crop productivity and income but also as a viable adaptation practice to climate variability. A farm simulation model (FARMSIM) and data from selected SSI technologies piloted in northern Ghana under the ‘Feed the Future-Innovation Lab for Small Scale Irrigation’ (ILSSI) project were used to assess the economic feasibility
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Irrigation reservoirs as blue clubs: Governance and policy intervention Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2019-03-14 Matteo Zavalloni, Meri Raggi, Davide Viaggi
Reservoirs are increasingly deemed to be important given their potential control of water availability across seasons, from wet to dry seasons, especially given the concerns on the effect of climate change. In this paper, we assess the potential scope for policy intervention on the construction of irrigation reservoirs and its design, focusing on the collective action aspect. We formulate a theoretical
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Complements of the house: Estimating demand-side linkages between residential water and electricity Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2019-03-01 Alexander Maas, Christopher Goemans, Dale T. Manning, Jesse Burkhardt, Mazdak Arabi
Past studies have estimated residential demand for water and electricity in isolation, but these goods are often used as joint inputs in household production activities. As such, separately estimating electricity and water demand may lead to biased demand parameter estimates. If prices are positively correlated and goods are complements, ignoring cross-price effects will exaggerate own-price elasticity
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WTP for water filters and water quality testing services in Guatemala Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2019-02-16 Todd Guilfoos, Sarah Hayden, Emi Uchida, Vinka Oyanedel-Craver
We conduct a contingent valuation study to estimate the willingness to pay for a point-of-use water quality technology and water quality testing services in the highlands of Guatemala. This study is unique in two ways: we measure drinking water quality at the household level through water samples collected at the household and we elicit the willingness to pay for water quality testing services. We
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Collective Local Payments for ecosystem services: New local PES between groups, sanctions, and prior watershed trust in Mexico Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2019-02-11 Alexander Pfaff, Luz A. Rodriguez, Elizabeth Shapiro-Garza
Payments for ecosystem services (PES) programs are now high in number, if not always in impact. When groups of users pay groups of service providers, establishing PES involves collective action. We study the creation of collective PES institutions, and their continuation, as group coordination. We use framed lab-in-field experiments with hydroservices users and providers within watersheds participating
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Analyzing the economic value of thermal power plant cooling water consumption Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2019-01-29 William N. Lubega, Ashlynn S. Stillwell
The consumption of water by thermal power plants for cooling purposes has presented several policy and resource allocation challenges in the recent past. There is need for improved economic understanding of thermal power plant water consumption to better address these challenges. In this paper, we examine the economic efficiency of water consumption substitutes for existing thermal power plants. In
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Economic value of water in the manufacturing industry located in the Valley of Mexico Basin, Mexico Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2019-01-29 Daniel A. Revollo-Fernández, Lilia Rodríguez-Tapia, Jorge A. Morales-Novelo
Water is one of the most important inputs in the production process, especially for the manufacturing sector. However, at the same time, this resource can present shortage problems, mainly due to a lack of knowledge about its value. In most emerging countries, the monetary value of water used in the production process does not necessarily reflect that there is a shortage, or the costs of catchment
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Communication, observability and cooperation: A field experiment on collective water management in India Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2018-12-24 Tanya O'Garra, Katherine A. Alfredo
This study is an empirical investigation of the potential for communication and observability interventions to increase cooperation around communal water treatment systems amongst villagers in rural India. Despite the dependence of many rural communities in India on communal water sources and treatment plants for safe drinking water, they often fail to collectively manage these resources, resulting
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Do housing prices reflect water quality impairments? Evidence from the Puget Sound Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2018-12-18 Michael Papenfus
Using data from Washington state and empirical methods to control for confounding factors, we estimate the effects of water quality impairments on residential housing prices. We also examine the role of individual water quality parameters such as fecal coliform and dissolved oxygen that are used to judge the attainment of water quality standards. Results indicate that impairments have a negative effect
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Water quality decisions and policy for an interstate watershed Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2018-10-11 Linda Fernandez, Dan McGarvey
We develop and apply a dynamic game model with economic, hydrologic, environmental and institutional components for interdependent states to meet water quality goals either jointly or separately. States minimize costs of phosphorus pollution abatement subject to phosphorus dynamics to reach the Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) water quality goal across agricultural, urban and stormwater sectors. Comparing
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Determining optimum reliability for supplying agricultural demand downstream of a reservoir using an explicit method with an economic objective function Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2018-10-06 Hossein Sheibani, Mojtaba Shourian
To date, various simulation and optimization models have been proposed for optimum design of the reservoirs and the downstream irrigation network systems. In most of these models, the minimum reservoir capacity is defined as the objective function that can supply the defined agricultural demands based on a predetermined assumed reliability level. However, the objective functions of minimizing the reservoir
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Valley-bottom wetland selection for water-quality preservation: How to deal with the absence of quantification of water-quality benefits? Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2018-09-20 Pierre Curmi, Mohamed Hilal, Elsa Martin, Virginie Piguet
We combine soil science and economics to provide an integrated framework of Valley-Bottom Wetland (VBW) selection criteria for surface water-quality preservation at the headwater watershed scale when there is no reliable method for quantifying water-quality benefits. We focus on a French agricultural landscape and more particularly on wet meadows. We implement a method of VBW identification based on
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The economic impacts of water information systems: A systematic review Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2018-09-05 Marc Jeuland, Katy Hansen, Hannah Doherty, Lucas B. Eastman, Mary Tchamkina
Information systems can yield economic value by providing data and analyses that are useful for improving water operations and planning. Working from a simple typology of water management domains that acknowledges the coupling of supply and demand, we characterize the nature of peer-reviewed and practitioner research that considers or makes reference to the costs and benefits of water-related information
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Modeling dynamics and adaptation at operational and structural scales for the ex-ante economic evaluation of large dams in an African context Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2018-08-16 Luciano Raso, Bruno Barbier, Jean-Claude Bader
Dams can produce electricity and ensure water security, but at the same time they radically alter the hydrological regime of rivers with significant consequences for the economic and environmental welfare of the region in which they are located. Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is currently the most frequently used framework for the economic evaluations of dams. Changes at different time scales influence
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The impact of human behaviour and restoration on the economic lifespan of the proposed Ntabelanga and Laleni dams, South Africa: A system dynamics approach Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2018-08-16 R. Bester, J.N. Blignaut, D.J. Crookes
The South African government intends to develop the Mzimvubu Water Project (MWP) which includes the construction of two dams (the Ntabelanga and Laleni dams) in the Tsitsa River, Eastern Cape province, South Africa. This investment is believed to be important to unlock the economic potential of this rural, poor and underdeveloped area. We consider a range of variables to ascertain what the realistic
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Exploring the potential of local market in remunerating water ecosystem services in Cambodia: An application for endogenous attribute non-attendance modelling Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2018-07-19 Tina Rambonilaza, Malyne Neang
Within South East Asia, certification and local market development may play an important role in incentivizing farmers to continue with nature-based solutions delivered by organic or traditional farming practices and avoid using environmentally detrimental production techniques. The purpose of this study is to use economic valuation in order to achieve an empirical understanding of local consumer preferences
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Conflicting objectives in groundwater management Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2018-06-25 Pereau Jean-Christophe
This paper studies the conflict between economic and environmental sustainability objectives faced by a water agency when she allocates water quotas to farmers. This conflict consists in a water allocation problem between the amount of water claimed by farmers to irrigate their crops and the water flows needed for the conservation and the preservation of the ecosystems. This conflict in objectives
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Surface vs. groundwater: The effect of forest cover on the costs of drinking water Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2018-06-22 Ana Faria Lopes, Jacob L. Macdonald, Paula Quinteiro, Luís Arroja, Cláudia Carvalho-Santos, Maria A. Cunha-e-Sá, Ana Cláudia Dias
Forests worldwide provide a variety of ecosystem services including carbon sequestration, soil protection and water purification. In particular, the minimal use of pesticides and fertilizers in forest operations coupled with the tree root system are associated with higher drinking water quality. However, forest coverage is expected to have a more influential impact in groundwater quality rather than
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Irrigation adoption: A potential avenue for reducing food insecurity among rice farmers in Benin Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2018-06-01 Gbetondji Melaine Armel Nonvide
Since the 1960s, the government of Benin has invested in the development of canal irrigation schemes in order to intensify food crop production and reduce food insecurity. This paper employed an ordered probit model with sample selection to assess the potential of irrigation in reducing food insecurity in the municipality of Malanville, Benin. The results show that 60% of the irrigation farmers and
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Improving data quality, applicability and transparency of national water accounts – A case study for Finland Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2018-05-16 Jani M. Salminen, Pekka J. Veiste, Jari T. Koskiaho, Sarianne Tikkanen
This paper introduces a novel procedure for the compilation of highly disaggregated water accounts by using Finland as a case example. The procedure is based on combining the use of existing standard economic statistics and other registers and databases with a dataset on water supply and use collected in the present study. As an outcome, water supply and use accounts are presented for 195 industries
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Carbon sequestration or water yield? The effect of payments for ecosystem services on forest management decisions in Mediterranean forests Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2018-05-04 Paola Ovando, Santiago Beguería, Pablo Campos
A decrease in net benefits from market-based forest products over the last three decades seems to be connected to the increasing abandonment of forestland in Mediterranean areas of Europe. In this paper, we estimate spatially distributed probabilities of continuing with forest management practices in mainly native pine and oak forests in Andalusia (southern Spain). The continuation of active forest
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Contracts versus trust for transfers of ecosystem services: Equity and efficiency in resource allocation and environmental provision Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2018-04-12 Alexander Pfaff, Maria Alejandra Velez, Kenneth Broad, Amar Hamoudi, Renzo Taddei
Managing natural-resource allocation and environmental externalities is a challenge. Institutional designs are central when improving water quality for downstream users, for instance, and when reallocating water quantities including for climate adaptation. Views differ on which institutions are best: states; markets; or informal institutions. For transfers of ecosystem services, we compare informal
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Do farmers value rice varieties tolerant to droughts and floods? Evidence from a discrete choice experiment in Odisha, India. Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2018-03-13 Anchal Arora,Sangeeta Bansal,Patrick S Ward
Abiotic stresses such as droughts and floods significantly constrain rice production in India. New stress tolerant technologies have the potential to reduce yield variability and help insulate farmers from the risks posed by these hazards. Using discrete choice experiments conducted in rural Odisha, we estimate farmers' valuation for drought-tolerant (DT) and submergence-tolerant (SubT) traits embodied
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Aquatic invasive species and ecosystem services: Economic effects of the worm Marenzelleria spp. in the Baltic Sea Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2018-03-02 Ing-Marie Gren, Antonia Nyström Sandman, Johan Näslund
Impacts of alien marine species on ecosystem services have been documented in numerous studies, but estimates of the costs, with explicit quantification of the impact channels, are lacking. We calculated the costs of the invasive worm Marenzelleria in the Baltic Sea, which affects the capacity of the seabed to store nutrients, by combining the production function and replacement cost methods. The nutrient
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Irrigation water use and technical efficiencies: Accounting for technological and environmental heterogeneity in U.S. agriculture using random parameters Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2018-03-01 Eric Njuki, Boris E. Bravo-Ureta
Decision-making units (DMUs) face considerable variations in their production possibilities as well as the characteristics of the production environments under which they operate. Consequently, DMUs are likely to experience substantial differences in productivity and efficiency levels. In contrast, the received literature assumes that DMUs share similar technological possibilities and only differ with
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Water policy guidelines: A comprehensive approach Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2018-02-13 Yacov Tsur, Amos Zemel
We study water management in the context of a prototypical water economy containing the main water sources and user sectors. A water policy consists of water allocation from each source to each user sector at each point of time as well as the capital investments needed to carry out these allocations. We show that the optimal policy brings the water capital stocks (infrastructure and equipment) to well-specified
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The impact of energy and agriculture prices on the stock performance of the water industry Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2018-02-10 Daniela Vandone, Massimo Peri, Lucia Baldi, Alessandra Tanda
Water issues are receiving increasing attention from policy-makers and international organizations due to water scarcity and global rising demand. Given that the demand for water is mainly driven by agriculture and energy, we use a multifactor market model to analyze the impact of agriculture and energy price trends on the price of listed companies operating in the water industry. Evidence highlights
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Systemic risk in the global water input-output network Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2018-02-01 T. Distefano, M. Riccaboni, G. Marin
The issue of water access and security has been emphasized in the recent policy debate on sustainable development (Sustainable Development Goal No. 6) and adaptation to climate change (CoP21 in Paris, 2015). This study provides new evidence about the Blue Virtual Water Input-Output Network. The main novelty of our approach is the combination of Structural Decomposition Analysis (SDA) with Network Theory
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The externality from communal metering of residential water: The case of Tehran Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2018-01-31 Mohammad Vesal, Mohammad H. Rahmati, Nastaran Taheri Hosseinabadi
Many countries use a single water meter for multiple units within a building. This creates a cost externality where the cost of water consumed is spread over all units. Using administrative data from Tehran Water and Wastewater Co. for 2013 and 2014, we find an increase in the number of units on a communal meter on average increases per unit use by 0.4%. Estimation at different levels of units reveals
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One shape does not fit all: A nonparametric instrumental variable approach to estimating the income-pollution relationship at the global Level Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2018-01-10 C.-Y. Cynthia Lin Lawell, Krishna P. Paudel, Mahesh Pandit
We examine the relationships among water pollution, income, and political institutions using country-level global water quality data over the period 1980 to 2012. In order to address concerns about the highly nonlinear relationship between pollution and income, the endogeneity of income, and the discrete nature of political variables, we use a nonparametric instrumental variable approach that allows
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Does the construction of a desalination plant necessarily imply that water tariffs will increase? A system dynamics analysis Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2017-11-15 D.J. Crookes
The City of Cape Town (the City) is experiencing a water crisis. However, although a major desalination plant has been on the table for a number of years, this continues to be regarded as a ‘long term option’ due to the apparent high costs associated with this technology. We therefore develop a predator-prey system dynamics model to assess the feasibility of a major desalination plant compared with
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Collective decision making under drought: An empirical study of water resource management in Japan Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2017-11-10 Kaori Tembata, Kenji Takeuchi
The management of common-pool resources requires collective action and cooperation, especially when resource users face extreme weather events. This study examines collective decision making in water resource management during droughts. By focusing on the drought response by groups of water users in river basin communities in Japan, we investigate the determinants of collective decisions on water withdrawal
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An information theoretic approach to estimating willingness to pay for river recreation site attributes Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2017-11-01 Miguel Henry, Ron C. Mittelhammer, John B. Loomis
This study applies an information theoretic econometric approach in the form of a new maximum likelihood-minimum power divergence (ML-MPD) semi-parametric binary response estimator to analyze dichotomous contingent valuation data. The ML-MPD method estimates the underlying behavioral decision process leading to a person's willingness to pay for river recreation site attributes. Empirical choice probabilities
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Interbasin water transfers and the size of regions: An economic geography example Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2017-10-31 Juan Carlos Lopez
A two-region, spatial economic model is developed to explore the implications of interregional water transfers on household migration and the intraregional distribution of land between urban and agricultural use when there are agglomeration economies in urban production. A particular example is considered where an arid region lacks water resources but has differing levels of amenities and agricultural
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How far can investment in efficient irrigation technologies reduce aquifer overdraft? Insights from an expert elicitation in Aguascalientes, Mexico Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2017-10-25 Jaime Sainz-Santamaria, Adan L. Martinez-Cruz
Aquifer overdraft is a key public concern in arid and semiarid regions —where agriculture is responsible of most of the water extraction. To tackle this problem, policy interventions in those regions most frequently focus on investment in irrigation technologies. However, these investments are usually carried out without consideration of the effects on water extraction. Estimation of such effects tend
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Economic sustainability of irrigation practices in arid cotton production Water Resour. Econ. (IF 1.875) Pub Date : 2017-10-13 Ling Yee Khor, Til Feike
Drip irrigation has been widely touted as a potential mean to promote ecological sustainability in arid crop production. However, the long-term viability of this practice also depends on its economic sustainability. Despite the potential increase in water use efficiency and yield, the system also needs to generate higher income to be popular among farmers. In view of this, we examine how the use of
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