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El estudio de la oferta empresarial de destinos de turismo activo en España: análisis crítico y propuestas de investigación
(2017)
La relativa juventud de la oferta empresarial de turismo deportivo de naturaleza (turismo activo) en los distintos destinos turísticos españoles, así como su compleja y variada gama de modalidades, ha hecho que se cuente ...
Literature review on rebound effect of water saving measures and analysis of a Spanish case study
(Springer, 2015)
The hypothesis of a rebound effect as a consequence of water saving investments is taken analogically from the Jevons paradox models in energy economics. The European Commission (EC) alert about the consequences in water ...
Protest Responses and Willingness to Accept: Ecosystem Services Providers’ Preferences towards Incentive-Based Schemes
(Wiley, 2017)
The identification and treatment of protest responses in stated preference surveys has long been subject to debate. We analyse protest responses while investigating ecosystem services providers’ preferences for incentive-based ...
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 ...
Energized water: Evolution of water-energy nexus in the Spanish irrigated agriculture, 1950–2017
(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 ...
Water Markets in Spain: Performance and Challenges
(MDPI, 2015)
Law 46/1999 incorporated formal water markets into the Spanish legal and regulatory framework, allowing spot water markets and the creation of water banks. The implementation of water markets in Spain aimed at improving ...
Insuring Water Supply in Irrigated Agriculture: A Proposal for Hydrological Drought Index-Based Insurance in Spain
(MDPI, 2019)
In Mediterranean-climate regions, irrigated agriculture is especially vulnerable to the risk of hydrological drought and irrigators are particularly concerned about its negative effects. During a hydrological drought ...
Building a Composite Indicator to Measure Environmental Sustainability Using Alternative Weighting Methods
(MDPI, 2020)
Environmental sustainability in agriculture can be measured through the construction of composite indicators. However, this is a challenging task because these indexes are heavily dependent on how the individual base ...
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 ...