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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 ...
Droughts as a catalyst for water policy change. Analysis of Spain, Australia (MDB), and California
(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 ...
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 ...
Sustainability accounting regulation in Spanish public sector organizations
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)
In 2011, the Spanish government made sustainability accounting mandatory for public sector organizations. This paper documents why, despite the new legislation, the quantity and quality of sustainability accounting practices ...
Reporting Models do not Translate Well: Failing to RegulateCSR Reporting in Spain
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)
This paper explores the regulation of corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting for corporations exceeding 1000 employees introduced in Spain by the Sustainable Economy Law 2/2011 of 4 March. The relevance for this ...
Learning from farmers’ experiences with participatory monitoring and evaluation of regenerative agriculture based on visual soil assessment
(Elsevier, 2021)
Participatory action research involving farmers and researchers is crucial to enhance the adoption of farming
innovations and ensure the long term sustainability of agroecosystem restoration. However, the factors ...