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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 ...
Microeconomics of Deficit Irrigation and Subjective Water Response Function for Intensive Olive Groves
(MDPI, 2016)
Abstract
This research paper analyzes the economics of deficit irrigation based on the use of subjective estimates of the crop yield–water relationship to determine water supply in irrigated olive groves. Interviewed ...
Using Ostrom’s DPs as Fuzzy Sets to Analyse How Water Policies Challenge Community-BasedWater Governance in Colombia
(MDPI, 2017)
Ostrom’s design principles have been broadly used to analyse the governance of common
pool resources. However, they are normally assessed as present or absent. We challenge this
assumption by considering them as fuzzy ...
An Analysis of Irrigation Organizations in Colombia through the Prism of Collective Action
(MDPI, 2019)
The objective of this article is to deepen the knowledge of collective action in irrigation organizations in Colombia, by identifying the limitations of the members for their organizational work and the variables of context ...
An Analysis of the Global Applicability of Ostrom’s Design Principles to Diagnose the Functionality of Common-Pool Resource Institutions
(MDPI, 2017)
There are a number of gaps in reviews relating Ostrom’s design principles (DPs) to
common-pool resource (CPR) institutions. These include the geographical distribution of CPRs,
the performance of young CPRs relative to ...
Analysis of Stakeholders’ Attitudes towards Water Markets in Southern Spain
(MDPI, 2013)
This research examines stakeholders’ perceptions of and preferences for water
markets in agriculture, focusing on the likely barriers that might refrain them from
participating in such markets. The research was carried ...
Water Economics and Policy
(MDPI, 2017)
Economics plays a double role in the field of water management, firstly as a powerful
analytical tool supporting water allocation and policy decisions, and secondly in the form of policy
instruments (water pricing, ...
Water Productivity under Drought Conditions Estimated Using SEEA-Water
(MDPI, 2016)
This paper analyzes the impact of droughts on agricultural water productivity in the period 2004–2012 in the Guadalquivir River Basin using the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting for Water (SEEA-Water). Relevant ...
Política agrícola, pobreza y desigualdad en el medio rural de México
(Universidad de Córdoba, UCOPress, 2019)
Introducción: La presente investigación se centra en el análisis de la política agrícola en México, en relación con la pobreza, a través métodos estadísticos identificando así su influencia en los niveles de pobreza del ...