Groundwater management: Efficiency and equity considerations

Feinerman, Eli

doi:10.1016/0169-5150(88)90028-x

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“…The incentive for any individual is to free-ride on the benefits from conservative behavior by the others (Olson, 1965). Consequently, the extraction rate reached is higher than the optimum social rate, resulting in collective inefficiencies and groundwater overexploitation (Feinerman, 1988;Gordon, 1954). In most cases, this disparity is due to lack of regulation or insufficient dynamism of the existing institutional arrangements (Millimam, 1956;Schlager and López-Gunn, 2006).…”

Section: Theoretical Background: Policy Instruments For Groundwater Mmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Nevertheless, there are numerous conditions necessary to hold down transaction costs, and several studies show that in realworld contexts the apparent superiority of water markets is limited (see Garrido and Calatrava, 2010;Johansson et al, 2002;Kemper, 2001;Koundouri, 2004;Rosegrant and Schleyer, 1996; among others). Feinerman (1988) claims that in terms of water use efficiency no single groundwater management tool is clearly superior to another. Feinerman's study also states that equity aspects (i.e.…”

Section: Theoretical Background: Policy Instruments For Groundwater Mmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Cost-effectiveness of groundwater conservation measures: A multi-level analysis with policy implications

Ferrer¹,

Varela‐Ortega²,

Flichman³

2011

Agricultural Water Management

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Keywords:Groundwater resources Irrigation Wetlands conservation Multi-scale economic modeling Water policies Cost-effectiveness analysisGroundwater in Spain, as in other arid and semiarid countries worldwide, has been widely used in the expansión of irrigated agriculture. In the Spanish Mancha Occidental aquifer, the excessive, and sometimes ¡Ilegal, water abstraction for irrigation has promoted outstanding socioeconomic development in the área, but it has also resulted in exploitation of the aquifer and degradation of valuable wetlands. Water policies implemented in the región ha ve not yet managed to restore the aquifer and face strong social opposition. This paper uses a multi-scale modeling approach to explore the environmental and socio-economic impacts of alternative water conservation measures at the farm and basin levéis. It also analyzes their comparative cost-effectiveness to help policy makers identify the least costly policy option for achieving the goal of the Mancha Occidental aquifer's sustainability. To conduct this analysis, a Mathematical Programming Model has been developed to simúlate: the closing-up and taxed-legalization of unlicensed wells, uniform volumetric and block-rate water prices, water quotas, and water markets. Aggregate results show that net social costs are not substantially different across policy option, so none of the considered policy options will be clearly more cost-effective than the others. However, there are significant differences between prívate and public costs (at the farm and sub-basin levéis), which will be critical for determining the application in practice of these policies. Results show that controlling ¡Ilegal water mining (through the legalization of unlicensed wells) is necessary, but is not sufficient to recover the aquifer. Rather, effective water management in this área will require the implementation of other water management policies as well. Among them, uniform volumetric and block-rate water pricing policies will entail the lowest net social cost, but will produce important income losses in the smallest and most water-intensive farms, which might put at risk the viability of these farms and the social acceptance of the policies. Further investigations on social costs, policy enforcement capacity and public participation in water management are highly recommended.

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Section: Theoretical Background: Policy Instruments For Groundwater Mmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Theoretical Background: Policy Instruments For Groundwater Mmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cost-effectiveness of groundwater conservation measures: A multi-level analysis with policy implications

Ferrer¹,

Varela‐Ortega²,

Flichman³

2011

Agricultural Water Management

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“…Although in principle, path-dependency of the resource could be incorporated into a single-cell models, to date this has not been undertaken. Instead, in discrete-time formulations, changes in the resource depend only on the previous period's extraction (Burt, 1970;Feinerman, 1988). In continuous time formulations, the resource stock adjusts instantaneously to the extraction rate (for example, Gisser, 1983;or Koundouri, 2004).…”

Section: A Simple Description Of the Hydraulics Of Groundwater Flowmentioning

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Frontiers in Water Resource Economics

Goetz¹,

Berga²

2006

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EDITORIAL STATEMENTThere is a growing awareness to the role that natural resources such as water, land, forests and environmental amenities play in our lives. There are many competing uses for natural resources, and society is challenged to manage them for improving social well being. Furthermore, there may be dire consequences to natural resources mismanagement. Renewable resources such as water, land and the environment are linked, and decisions made with regard to one may affect the others. Policy and management of natural resources now require interdisciplinary approach including natural and social sciences to correctly address our society preferences.This series provides a collection of works containing most recent findings on economics, management and policy of renewable biological resources such as water, land, crop protection, sustainable agriculture, technology, and environmental health. It incorporates modem thinking and techniques of economics and management. Books in this series will incorporate knowledge and models of natural phenomena with economics and managerial decision frameworks to assess alternative options for managing natural resources and environment.

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“…Knapp and Vaux 160 (1982) consider groups of farmers differentiated by their derived demand for water, and 161 present an empirical example that demonstrates that some users may suffer substantial 162 losses from quota allocation policies even though the group as a whole benefits. 163 Feinerman (1988) extends their analysis and considers a variety of management tools 164 including pump taxes, quotas, subsidies, and markets for water rights. Using simulations 165 calibrated to Kern County, California (USA), Feinerman concludes that while the welfare 166 distributional effects on user groups may be substantial, the negotiations between the 167 policy-makers and the users are likely to be difficult because the attractiveness of policies 168 varies across users and is sensitive to the parameters.…”

Section: Literature Review 158mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Knapp and Vaux (1982) and Feinerman (1988) are among the few studies that consider 159 equity and distributional effects of groundwater management schemes. Knapp and Vaux 160 (1982) consider groups of farmers differentiated by their derived demand for water, and 161 present an empirical example that demonstrates that some users may suffer substantial 162 losses from quota allocation policies even though the group as a whole benefits.…”

Section: Literature Review 158mentioning

confidence: 99%