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Author : Lisa Marie Pfeiffer
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
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Download or read book Three Essays on the Economics of Groundwater Extraction for Agriculture written by Lisa Marie Pfeiffer and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pamela Giselle Katic
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Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Three Essays on the Economics of Groundwater Extraction written by Pamela Giselle Katic and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary contribution of this thesis is to develop a series of hydroeconomic models to act as solution-oriented tools to conduct integrated groundwater management and provide fresh policy insights. Using spatially detailed economic and hydrologic data from a real-world aquifer, this thesis examines key groundwater management problems and suggests policies that might be used to control such systems. The thesis consists of three main essays focusing on issues in groundwater spatial dynamics and the design of optimal regulations. The first essay explores the importance of including well location decisions in spatially differentiated groundwater models to provide robust estimates of the gains from optimal management. Using a spatially differentiated and dynamic model of endogenous well location, this essay compares optimal and competitive extraction paths and well location decisions under alternative hypotheses as to the spatial distribution of groundwater.
Author : Eric C. Edwards
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ISBN 13 : 9781321201710
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Three Essays on the Economics of Groundwater Management Institutions written by Eric C. Edwards and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first chapter explores how properties of an aquifer influence the incentives of groundwater irrigators to engage in collective management. Using data from Kansas, counties with high hydraulic conductivity, a measure of how "common" the groundwater resource is, are shown to benefit more from management, among other results. The chapter demonstrates the benefit of directing management based on physical properties of a resource.
Author : Gail L. Cramer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317225767
Total Pages : 806 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Agricultural Economics written by Gail L. Cramer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook offers an up-to-date collection of research on agricultural economics. Drawing together scholarship from experts at the top of their profession and from around the world, this collection provides new insights into the area of agricultural economics. The Routledge Handbook of Agricultural Economics explores a broad variety of topics including welfare economics, econometrics, agribusiness, and consumer economics. This wide range reflects the way in which agricultural economics encompasses a large sector of any economy, and the chapters present both an introduction to the subjects as well as the methodology, statistical background, and operations research techniques needed to solve practical economic problems. In addition, food economics is given a special focus in the Handbook due to the recent emphasis on health and feeding the world population a quality diet. Furthermore, through examining these diverse topics, the authors seek to provide some indication of the direction of research in these areas and where future research endeavors may be productive. Acting as a comprehensive, up-to-date, and definitive work of reference, this Handbook will be of use to researchers, faculty, and graduate students looking to deepen their understanding of agricultural economics, agribusiness, and applied economics, and the interrelationship of those areas.
Author : Nicholas William Hagerty
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Total Pages : 165 pages
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Download or read book Essays on the Economics of Water written by Nicholas William Hagerty and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis studies three questions in the economics of water resource management. Chapter 1 estimates the economic gains available from greater use of large-scale water markets in California. I develop a revealed-preference empirical approach that exploits observed choices in the existing water market, and I apply it to comprehensive new data on California’s water economy. This approach overcomes the challenge posed by transaction costs, which insert an unobservable wedge between observed prices and marginal valuations. First, I directly estimate transaction costs and use them to recover equilibrium marginal valuations. Then, I use supply shocks to estimate price elasticities of demand, which govern how marginal valuations vary with quantity. I find even a relatively modest market scenario would create additional benefits of $480 million per year, which can be weighed against both the benefits of existing market restrictions and the setup costs of larger-scale markets. Chapter 2 estimates the possible costs of industrial water pollution to agriculture in India, focusing on 63 industrial sites identified by the central government as “severely polluted.” I exploit the spatial discontinuity in pollution concentrations that these sites generate along a river. First, I show that these sites do in fact coincide with a large, discontinuous rise in pollutant concentrations in the nearest river. Then, I find some evidence that agricultural revenues may be substantially lower in districts immediately downstream of polluting sites, relative to districts immediately upstream of the same site in the same year. These results suggest that damages to agriculture could represent a major cost of water pollution. Chapter 3, co-authored with Ariel Zucker, presents an experimental protocol for a project that pays smallholder farmers in India to reduce their consumption of groundwater. This project will test the effectiveness of payments for voluntary conservation – a policy instrument that may be able to sidestep regulatory constraints common in developing countries. It will also measure the price response of demand for groundwater in irrigated agriculture, a key input to many possible reforms. Evidence from a pilot suggests that the program may have reduced groundwater pumping by a large amount, though confidence intervals are wide.
Author : Kimberly Burnett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317916255
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)
Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Water Economics and Institutions written by Kimberly Burnett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing scarcity of freshwater worldwide brings to light the need for sound water resource modeling and policy analysis. While a solid foundation has been established for many specific water management problems, combining those methods and principles in a unified framework remains an ongoing challenge. This Handbook aims to expand the scope of efficient water use to include allocation of sources and quantities across uses and time, as well as integrating demand-management with supply-side substitutes. Socially efficient water use does not generally coincide with private decisions in the real world, however. Examples of mechanisms designed to incentivize efficient behavior are drawn from agricultural water use, municipal water regulation, and externalities linked to water resources. Water management is further complicated when information is costly and/or imperfect. Standard optimization frameworks are extended to allow for coordination costs, games and cooperation, and risk allocation. When operating efficiently, water markets are often viewed as a desirable means of allocation because a market price incentivizes users to move resources from low to high value activities. However, early attempts at water trading have run into many obstacles. Case studies from the United States, Australia, Europe, and Canada highlight the successes and remaining challenges of establishing efficient water markets.
Author : Karin Audrey Donhowe
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ISBN 13 : 9781369341256
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (412 download)
Download or read book Three Essays on the Economics of Water Rights written by Karin Audrey Donhowe and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally, in the third chapter I explore differences in Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) water management across its projects. BOR delivers water to farmers in Western states based on long-term contracts with irrigation districts that specify how much land can be irrigated, the quantity of water allotted per acre, and terms of payment. There is variation across Reclamation projects in terms of rights ownership, water allocation, and the ability to transfer water. These areas of institutional variation affect the security of farmers' claims to water, and security of rights in turn affects investment decisions, crop choice, and the value of water rights. This paper documents water management across five of the largest BOR irrigation projects and evaluates the implications of the variation.
Author : Cesare Dosi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401597812
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Agricultural Use of Groundwater written by Cesare Dosi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Groundwater is endangered and polluted in several ways. Conservation and better management of this invisible resource should be a key ingredient of sustainable water policies. This is especially true in areas, such as many Mediterranean regions, which are already exposed to scarcity problems and which are likely to experience increasing competition between freshwater uses and users. Agriculture is an important user of groundwater not only in terms of abstractions, but also in terms of generation and release of pollutants. Agricultural policies, traditionally directed towards other objectives, are beginning to pay more attention to environmental considerations. However more effective initiatives are required to reduce the pressure upon groundwater resources and to achieve a better integration between agricultural and environmental policies. This book has been developed from three workshops held as part of the EU Concerted Action SAGA, "Sustainable Agricultural Use of Aquifers in Southern Europe: Integration between Agricultural and Water Management Policies" (FAIR5-CT97-3673). The Concerted Action and the workshops brought together researchers working in different but complementary fields, in order to get a picture of the state-of-the art about interlinkages between agriculture and groundwater, as well a critical review of alternative regulatory approaches and policy instruments aimed at improving groundwater management.
Author : Edgar Humberto Tellez Foster
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Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (124 download)
Download or read book Essays on User Response to Alternative Policies to Modifying Subsidies for Groundwater Extraction written by Edgar Humberto Tellez Foster and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This present set of three essays analyzes the effects of and possible solutions to a common problem in many countries, namely, the over-exploitation of groundwater due to implementation of pervasive subsidies for electricity used for pumping. It uses Mexico as an example of the consequences, and subsequently proposes solutions to this problem. The first essay analyzes in a dynamic framework the effects of the subsidy and simulates different policy scenarios to analyze the possible outcomes of an eventual subsidy modification; this serves as the primary analysis that produces several testable hypotheses for our experimental work. Results from computer simulations for two different aquifers (León, Guanajuato and Kern County, California) suggest that elimination and decoupling have the same impact in reducing withdrawals from the aquifer and both interventions reach a less deep height to the water table. Using laboratory experiments, the second essay studies how the subjects determine their extraction decisions, conditional on different subsidy modification arrangements, we observe that the theoretical predictions suggest that elimination and decoupling the subsidy from the electricity price have the same effect and reducing the subsidy has a smaller effect when compared with the latter, the experimental results from the laboratory showed us that among the three policy interventions, decoupling the subsidy had the largest effect, this makes it a viable policy intervention when considering the political difficulties of eliminating or reducing a subsidy. The third essay will use the same model and experimental design described in Essay 2 to test the policy scenarios in the field, with actual stakeholders (farmers). Results show that farmers' behavior follows the predictions of the model and differ from that of students in the impact of each policy intervention. In the field experiments elimination had the largest effect followed very closely by decoupling, and as predicted reduction had the smallest effect. These results support those obtained in the laboratory experiments where we observed decoupling as a viable policy intervention and a possible solution to groundwater over exploitation in the existence of pumping subsidies.
Author : Chan Chang
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Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (313 download)
Download or read book Essays on Economics of Water Resources Management written by Chan Chang and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Oliver R. Browne
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ISBN 13 : 9780438088108
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (881 download)
Download or read book Essays on the Economics of Agricultural and Residential Water Management written by Oliver R. Browne and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ensuring the efficient allocation of water resources among end users has become crucial in light of increasing climate variability and the high capital and environmental costs of developing new supply. However, within the two largest sectors of water consumption -- agricultural users and residential users -- the different nature of water use and governing institutions gives rise to different challenges in allocating water across competing demands. This dissertation comprises two essays, both case studies evaluating policies to improve water management in each sector respectively. Informed by different settings, I use novel data and methods to estimate impacts of the distinct reforms. The two chapters provide lessons about how policymakers in either sector can improve water management in the future.
Author : R. Kerry Turner
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN 13 : 9789251051900
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Economic Valuation of Water Resources in Agriculture written by R. Kerry Turner and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this report is to produce a review on water resource valuation issues and techniques specifically for the appraisal and negotiation of raw (as opposed to bulk or retail) water resource allocation for agricultural development projects. The review considers raw water in naturally occurring watercourses, lakes, wetlands, soil and aquifers, taking an ecosystem function perspective at a catchment scale, and takes account of the demands from irrigated and rainfed agriculture. It is hoped that the review will have particular application to developing countries where agreed methods for reconciling competing uses are often absent, but nevertheless takes account of valuation approaches that have been made in post industrial economies.
Author : J. T. Winpenny
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)
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Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Wealth of Waste written by J. T. Winpenny and published by Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). This book was released on 2010 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent times, the coalescence of different pressure has put a major strain on water supply globally. The level of water abstraction is reaching its natural limits, and this calls for a dramatic shift in water utilization concepts. This publication addresses the economic and financial issues and the methodology and procedures involved in the analysis of water recycling projects as part of a comprehensive water planning process. The issue is dealt within the wider context of water resources and covers human health, water quality, acceptability, institutional constraints, and other factors, all of which have economic implications and affect the feasibility of reuse schemes. The recycling of urban wastewater is a key link in Integrated Water Resource Management that can fulfill several different, but interrelated objectives. These are expressed as win-win propositions, delivering simultaneous benefits to farmers, cities and natural environmental systems, part of solutions to the urgent global problems of food, clean water, the safe disposal of waters and the protection of the vital aquatic ecosystems.
Author : Daniel A. Brent
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Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (882 download)
Download or read book Essays on Water Resource Economics written by Daniel A. Brent and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A canonical example in economics of the difference between marginal and total value is the diamond-water paradox. The high price of diamonds is derived from their rarity; whereas the price of water is low due to its abundance, even though it is essential to sustain human life. Scarcity, rather than abundance, better characterizes water availability for many people and this dissertation studies how applied economic principles can be utilized to manage water resources. The first chapter estimate the costs of water volatility in the agricultural sector through a hedonic analysis of heterogeneous water rights. Security for water rights is capitalized into the value of agricultural land, which informs the magnitude and distributional welfare effects of droughts. Tests for an endogenous changepoint fails find a time-varying price premium, indicating that the costs of increased water volatility due to climate change are not manifested in agricultural property markets. The second and third chapters focus on economic and behavioral incentives in urban municipal water demand. Chapter 2 presents a disaggregated model of water demand to separately estimate intensive and extensive margin demand elasticity. Identification is achieved through a novel method merging remotely sensed satellite data on vegetative cover with water metering records. The time series of vegetative cover captures changes in landscape over time and identifies the extensive margin elasticity - a parameter that has only been estimated implicitly through the difference in short run and long run demand. Households that maintain green lawns are less responsive to prices than households either change landscapes or have a mixed landscape. Higher water rates increase the probability of converting to low water-intensive landscapes, which in turn is a major driver of long-run demand. The extensive margin with respect to changing landscapes comprises 7%-48% of total elasticity for households with significant outdoor water use. The final chapter examines the impact of non-pecuniary incentives stemming from the behavioral economics literature on water demand. In a randomized field experiment social comparisons are found to significantly decrease water demand with substantial heterogeneity both across and within utilities. The utility with the highest average treatment effect saved three times as much water in percentage terms as the utility with the lowest average treatment effect. Higher users are more responsive to the program and there are important interactions between social norms and existing utility conservation programs. Water resources face stress due to population growth, rising incomes, and climate change and these stressors will only increase in the future. This dissertation addresses several key issues in agricultural and residential that aim to increase knowledge and aid public policy of managing water resources in times of scarcity.
Author : Stephen Merrett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113536205X
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)
Download or read book Introduction To The Economics Of Water Resources written by Stephen Merrett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise treatment of water-resource economics. Based upon political economy perspectives, it draws upon a range of case-studies - Third- World, developed world, and former communist countries - to cover many issues. There is guidance on
Author : Steven Charles Buck
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Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (785 download)
Download or read book Essays on Water Resource Economics and Agricultural Extension written by Steven Charles Buck and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation discusses topics in the microeconomics of water resource economics and agricultural extension. In one chapter I use a hedonic model to explain the price of land transactions, and from this an implied value of irrigation water is inferred. In a separate chapter I develop measures of willingness-to-pay for water supply reliability measures, and estimate how consumers respond to changes in the price of residential water. My final chapter develops a model of a farmer's decision to invest in learning from agricultural technicians about a new integrated pest management technology that improves yields and reduces agricultural run-off of pesticides into surface waterways. Each chapter is grounded in microeconomic models of decision-making.
Author : Western Agricultural Economics Research Council. Committee on the Economics of Water Resources Development
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Total Pages : 628 pages
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Download or read book Water Resources and Economic Development of the West ... Report written by Western Agricultural Economics Research Council. Committee on the Economics of Water Resources Development and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
