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Self-financed water bank for resource reallocation to the environment and within the agricultural sector
(Elsevier, 2020)
In closed river basins, economic activities commonly threaten instream flows, especially during drought episodes. In such situations, a suitable policy option is to recover water for the environment by purchasing water ...
Priority water rights. Are they useful for improving water-use efficiency at the irrigation district level?
(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 ...
Agricultural Water Allocation Under Cyclical Scarcity: The Role of Priority Water Rights
(MDPI, 2020)
Water is becoming an increasingly scarce resource worldwide, suggesting that water rationing methods should be revised to improve water allocation efficiency, especially during cyclical scarcity events (droughts). The ...
Recovering water for the environment during droughts through public water banks within a monopsony-monopoly setting
(Elsevier, 2020)
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 ...
Priority Water Rights for Irrigation at the River Basin Level. Do They Improve Economic Efficiency During Drought Periods?
(Springer, 2022)
This paper assesses the potential efficiency gains of reforming the water rights regime in the Spanish agricultural sector by replacing current allocation procedures based on the proportional rule with a priority allocation ...
Water Banks: What Have We Learnt from the International Experience?
(MDPI, 2016)
In recent decades, the use of economic instruments has been promoted as a way to improve water demand management, required due to the difficulty of further supply increases. Against this backdrop, this paper analyses the ...