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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The role of traditional restaurants in tourist destination loyalty
(Public Library Of Science (PLOS), 2021)
The aim of this study is to examine the effect that visitor satisfaction with traditional restaurants has on perceptions of the local gastronomy, the overall image of a city and loyalty to that destination. Fieldwork has ...
The Spanish Labor Market: A Gender Approach
(MDPI, 2021)
The massive incorporation of Spanish women into the labor market is a phenomenon that began in the second half of the 20th century, being many the obstacles that this group has had to overcome to reach the current situation, ...
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 ...
Hedging the risk of hydrological drought in irrigated agriculture. The role of precautionary savings
(Taylor & Francis, 2021)
This paper explores the viability of precautionary savings as a hydrological drought risk management instrument in irrigated agriculture. To that end, first, the Drought Savings Account (DSA) is proposed as a personal ...
Territorial Cohesión in Rural Areas: An Analysis of Determinants in the Post‐Economic Crisis Context
(MDPI, 2020)
One of the main consequences of the impacts of the past economic and financial crisis, which began in 2007–2008, has been the increase in inequalities between countries, regions, and territories of the EU. In the rural ...