This survey distills recent work on the price elasticity of demand for urban and agricultural
water and outlines how it can inform the design of market-based approaches to manage …

Water markets have the potential to lessen some costs of climate change. However, they
need to be designed to address the unique institutional and physical features of water. In …

We estimate how farmers adapted to a water restriction imposed through local governance.
The restriction imposed a uniform quota on water use with a 5-year allocation and allowed …

Abstract The North China Plain (NCP) is one of the major grain production areas in China
where the groundwater level has declined rapidly in recent years because of irrigation. To …

Depletion of groundwater stocks reduces both the flow of economic value and production of
goods from this resource. One challenge in estimating the economic value of the stock of …

Understanding how irrigation is used across agricultural landscapes is essential to support
efforts to grow more food while reducing pressures on limited freshwater resources …

This study provides an estimate of the gross value of irrigation water from the US High Plains
Aquifer. We estimate a yield function for aggregated crop biomass production, based on …

Aquifer depletion poses a major threat to the ability of farmers, food supply chains and rural
economies globally to use groundwater as a means of adapting to climate variability and …

Market-based instruments pose widely prescribed but rarely implemented tools to manage
scarce water resources. We estimate the price elasticity of demand for agricultural …

The impact of the water-pricing policy in irrigated agriculture in Emilia Romagna (Italy) is
evaluated through the analysis of farmers' water use. The policy assessment is performed by …