• Priority water rights. Are they useful for improving water-use efficiency at the irrigation district level? 

  Gómez-Limón, José A.; Gutiérrez-Martín, Carlos; Montilla-López, Nazaret M. (Elsevier, 2021)

  This paper examines the effectiveness of reforming water rights regimes in the agricultural sector by replacing allocation procedures based on the proportional rule with the implementation of a priority rule that establishes ...

• Drivers of Irrigation Water Productivity and Basin Closure Process: Analysis of the Guadalquivir River Basin (Spain) 

  Expósito, Alfonso; Berbel, Julio (Springer, 2019)

  This paper proposes a methodology for the analysis of the evolution of irrigation water productivity that enables the decomposition of its driving factors. The method is applied to the Guadalquivir river basin (southern ...

• Impacts of irrigation efficiency improvement on water use, water consumption and response to water price at field level 

  Berbel, Julio; Gutiérrez-Martín, Carlos; Expósito, Alfonso (Elsevier, 2018)

  Increasing irrigation efficiency has been suggested as a solution in water scarce areas but its potential rebound effect (increased ex-post water consumption) is receiving growing attention; paradoxically, although improved ...

• Droughts as a catalyst for water policy change. Analysis of Spain, Australia (MDB), and California 

  Berbel, Julio; Esteban, Encarna (Elsevier, 2019)

  Droughts are natural hazards characterized by a prolonged period of below-average precipitation. Water scarcity is defined as insufficient water resources to meet demands in a region. This paper examines three regions ...

• Energized water: Evolution of water-energy nexus in the Spanish irrigated agriculture, 1950–2017 

  Espinosa-Tasón, Jaime; Berbel, Julio; Gutiérrez-Martín, Carlos (Elsevier, 2020)

  This study describes the evolution of the Spanish irrigated sector and focuses on water abstraction, water consumption, and energy use in the period 1950–2017. The analysis shows evidence of the basins reaching closure ...

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