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| Blanco-Gutierrez, Irene; Varela-Ortega, Consuelo; Flichman, Guillermo. |
| Groundwater in Spain, as in other arid or semiarid countries worldwide, has been intensely used for the expansion of irrigated agriculture. This booming development has induced a remarkable socioeconomic development in many rural areas but has produced far-reaching environmental problems. In the Spanish Western La Mancha Aquifer, the excessive, and sometimes illegal, water abstraction for irrigation agriculture has resulted in the Aquifer’s overexploitation and has been responsible of the degradation of the associated wetlands “Tablas de Daimiel”, an internationally reputed, Ramsarnominated aquatic ecosystem. To undertake this analysis, a mathematical programming model has been developed to simulate farmers’ behaviour and their responses to different water... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Environmental degradation; Water policies; Cost-effectiveness analysis; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/43846 |
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