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  1. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2006

    The increasing importance of sustainability in natural resource management is drawing increasing attention, worldwide, to the role that policies can play in enhancing the management and allocative efficiency of water. Looking at various examples from the literature, we discuss some best practices that have been applied in a variety of empirical settings, while highlighting some of the pitfalls to avoid. We discuss the role that assigning water rights can play in creating the necessary incentives for market-based mechanisms of re-allocation to work for water management.

  2. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2006
    France, Australia, Europe, Oceania

    Emerging concerns for environmental flows translate into reforms that aim to preserve minimal flows in rivers. These policy measures have consequences for traditional right-holders: how to share between consumptive users the new scarcity created by the protection of instream flows? This paper compares different policy mechanisms in France, Australia and California in an attempt to answer the questions of how to allocate water restrictions and compensations and how to pursue simultaneously efficiency, equity and acceptability objectives.

  3. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2006
    Greece

    We propose a theoretical framework to analyze the conditions under which a farmer facing production uncertainty (due to a possible water shortage) and incomplete information will adopt a more efficient irrigation technology. A reduced form of this model is empirically estimated using a sample of 265 farms located in Crete, Greece. The empirical results suggest that farmers choose to adopt the new technology in order to hedge against production risk.

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