Macro-Micro Feedback Links Of Irrigation Water Management In Turkey

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This paper is a product of the project "Macro-Micro Feedback Links of Irrigation Water Management", funded by the Research Committee of World Bank and managed by DECRG-RU. We are indebted to Ariel Dinar advice and comments. Constructive review comments from Erinc Yeldan are acknowledged with appreciation. Cakmak, Dudu, Saracoglu, Roe and Tsur were consultans to the World Bank on this study.

Economic Impacts of Total Water Use Control in the Heihe River Basin in Northwestern China—An Integrated CGE-BEM Modeling Approach

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Water competition through the ‘water-energy’ nexus: Assessing the economic impacts of climate change in a Mediterranean context

“…Integrated approaches in water-oriented CGE analyses, combining top-down CGE models with bottom-up models, are adopted to integrate bio-physical and/or socio-economic heterogeneity in the analysis (Ponce et al, 2012). To this end, farm models (Baum et al, 2016;Cakmak et al, 2008;Roe et al, 2005), hydrological models (Smajgl, 2006), agent-based models (Smajgl et al, 2009) and revealed preference models (Pérez-Blanco et al, 2016) have been used. CGE models have also been combined with integrated assessment models to capture the long term market and non-market impacts of climate change (e.g.…”

Economy-Wide Implications of Direct and Indirect Policy Interventions in the Water Sector: Lessons from Recent Work and Future Research Needs

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