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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
Regional Economic Implications of Water Allocation and Reliability
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| Autores: |
Harris, Simon
Doak, Murray
Ford, Stuart
Bywater, Tony
Bright, John
Thorrold, Bruce S.
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| Data: |
2011-01-06
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| Ano: |
2005
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| Palavras-chave: |
Irrigation
Reliability
Regional economic impacts
Agribusiness
Agricultural and Food Policy
Agricultural Finance
Community/Rural/Urban Development
Environmental Economics and Policy
Farm Management
Financial Economics
Institutional and Behavioral Economics
Land Economics/Use
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
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| Resumo: |
The understanding of how allocation decisions can maximise the economic returns to the community from water for irrigation has received little attention, but is a significant issue for regional councils, those interested in water allocation policy development, and for irrigated farmers. There is a tradeoff between the amount of irrigated area and the reliability with which it can be undertaken. Overseas studies have generated a curve with optimum levels of allocation which maximise the economic return to the community from the resource. The study on which this paper is based used a single case study to model the individual and regional economic outcomes for four scenarios of water allocation, using daily time step simulation models of the hydrological, irrigation, farm and financial systems over the 1973 – 2000 period. The results show that there is an increasing return to the region as the allocation from the resource increases, at the expense of lower returns to existing users.
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| Tipo: |
Conference Paper or Presentation
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
http://purl.umn.edu/98516
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| Relação: |
New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society>2005 Conference, August 26-27, 2005, Nelson, New Zealand
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| Formato: |
10
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