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A Simplified Hydro-Economic Model of Guadalquivir River Basin for Analysis of Water-Pricing Scenarios
- Source :
- Water, Volume 12, Issue 7, Water, Vol 12, Iss 1879, p 1879 (2020), idUS: Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla, Universidad de Sevilla (US), idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla, instname
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020.
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Abstract
- This study describes an economic model in the Guadalquivir river basin (Southern Spain) that considers inter-sectoral and hydrological effects of changes in water use as a response to various water-pricing policy scenarios. The main economic variables include water use, gross regional product, return flows in the river basin, and employment at sectoral and basin levels. The response of the different sectors to water pricing and of the sectoral productivity is derived from official data. The background of the model is based on previous research for the implementation of the UN System of Environmental-Economic Accounts and on the application of this framework to the Guadalquivir basin. Results based on the elicited curves illustrate that the structure of the demand function for irrigated agriculture passes from inelastic to elastic sections, while the function corresponding to the remaining economic sectors shows a continuous decreasing function with minor change in the elasticity structure of the curve. Results show that the impact of extreme measures of water pricing reduces water abstraction by up to 42% vs. the baseline scenario, with an economic reduction in regional Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of 1%.
- Subjects :
- Water-use efficiency
lcsh:Hydraulic engineering
Geography, Planning and Development
Drainage basin
Aquatic Science
Biochemistry
Gross domestic product
lcsh:Water supply for domestic and industrial purposes
Demand curve
lcsh:TC1-978
water management
Gross Regional Product
Economic model
water-use efficiency
Inter-sectoral
Water Science and Technology
Water policy
geography
lcsh:TD201-500
geography.geographical_feature_category
inter-sectoral
Economic sector
Water pricing
Water management
River basin
water policy
Environmental science
Water resource management
water pricing
Water use
economic model
river basin
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20734441
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Water
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....06d06d3917b8e9ed39a5761d7dcfb1d0
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/w12071879