Showing papers in "Water Resources and Economics in 2016"

TL;DR: In this paper, a cooperative game theory framework was developed to analyze water management policies that could address scarcity and drought in a typical arid and semi-arid basin in Southeastern Spain.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors apply a hydro-economic model that solves for the investment in improved irrigation efficiency across the various irrigation sites in the Aral Sea Basin (ASB) that delivers the highest economic gains.

TL;DR: In this paper, a multiregional input-output model is proposed and used to estimate time series trends for water use, water footprint and water trade balance in 41 world regions between 1995 and 2008.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors estimate the direct implementation costs and USDA program costs for three agricultural conservation practices: wetlands, cover crops, and two-stage ditches, over 10 and 50 year time horizons.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a household utility maximization model in which access and sanitation services determine the child's health, which in turn affects the child education and the household welfare.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess the impact of implementing the full cost recovery (FCR) principle for water services on European households and provide a measure of the resulting household welfare losses.

TL;DR: In this paper, a model that combines the strengths of the State Wide Economic Agricultural Production Model (SWAP), an agricultural economic optimization model, and Water Evaluation and Planning (WEAP), a climate-driven hydrological model, is described.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report findings from a survey about laser leveler adoption among farmers in Punjab in India and investigate factors associated with (and impediments to) adoption, including financial constraints and social network influence.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the impact of precipitation cuts on irrigation reservoir levels and the impacts of lower irrigation water supply on farmers' agricultural income by setting up two model specifications of regional net-revenue maximization based on a calibrated economic programming model integrated with a mass balance hydrologic model.

TL;DR: In this paper, a model for determining the optimal capacities of water projects, including, but not limited to, diversion dams, flood control dams, water transfer projects, and rainwater harvesting systems, is presented.

TL;DR: In this article, survey-based non-market valuation approaches for eliciting non-use values also may confront the need for re-consideration of environmental and green-vs-green tradeoffs.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors designed a survey to provide quantitative evidence about household demand for qualitative aspects of tap water supply, focusing on two characteristics that are of importance for households: water hardness and aesthetic quality in terms of taste, smell and appearance.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate household preferences for water storage systems using a choice experiment and latent class modeling techniques and find that the majority of households belong to two equally-sized classes, a relatively privileged group (i.e. wealthier, better educated, etc.) with strong preferences for supplemental irrigation and a less privileged group that is mainly interested in improved domestic water services.

TL;DR: In this paper, a survey of 564 recreational users of Plastira Lake, one of the most important constructed wetlands in Greece, explores factors influencing people's willingness to pay (WTP) for protecting an artificial lake.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors measured whether, and to what extent, the price of bottled water depends upon its extrinsic (brand, packaging, origin), and intrinsic characteristics (mineral composition).

TL;DR: In this article, the role of freshwater inputs on the blue crab fishery in Georgia, USA was investigated, and a structural, bioeconomic model revealed freshwater inputs have significant effects on fishery outcomes.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present standardized methods that combine freshwater abstraction and estuary functionality to estimate recreational values of freshwater inflow to households located in proximity to the seven selected South African estuaries while testing for the convergent validity of the contingent valuation method (CVM), zonal travel cost method (ZTCM), and the individual travel costs method (ITCM).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined households' preferences for water quality improvements in irrigation water storage infrastructure associated with their residences and found that the economic impacts of improvement and stabilization of water quality in the lake are substantial and that the additional property tax benefits generated by the water quality improvement would be sufficient to cover the costs of creating the improvement.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the issue of obsolete water mains which is the main cause of water loss in developed countries and determine the cost-efficient water main quality index according to different parameters.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the economic aspects of pumping of oxygen-rich water to anoxic bottoms of the Baltic Sea from two different angles, and found that reduction of external loads produces higher annual net benefits and higher present value than oxygenating anoxic seafloor bottoms.