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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The predictive power of farmers’ risk attitude measures elicited by experimental methods
(CSIC, 2020)
Aim of study: Farmers’ behavior is shaped by their individual attitudes towards risk. Consequently, an understanding of the heteroge neous risk attitudes among farmers is key to predicting their decision-making. Therefore, ...
Diseño de un seguro indexado para la cobertura del riesgo de sequía hidrológica en la agricultura de regadíoDesign of an index-based insurance for hedging the risk of hydrological drought in irrigated agriculture
(Universidad de Jaén, 2019)
In Spain, irrigated agriculture is especially vulnerable to the risk of hydrological drought. In practice, this circumstance implies that sometimes the water allotments received by farmers are insufficient to meet crops ...