Alleviating water scarcity and poverty through water rights trading pilot policy: A quasi-natural experiment based approach

L Mu, Y Liu, S Chen - Science of The Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Water poverty is among the most significant global challenges and severely restricts the
sustainable development of societies and economies, especially in the world's arid regions …

Agricultural water allocation under cyclical scarcity: The role of priority water rights

JA Gómez-Limón, C Gutiérrez-Martín… - Water, 2020 - mdpi.com
Water is becoming an increasingly scarce resource worldwide, suggesting that water
rationing methods should be revised to improve water allocation efficiency, especially during …

Water allocation and governance in multi-stakeholder environments: Insight from Axios Delta, Greece

L Kapetas, N Kazakis, K Voudouris… - Science of The Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
This article deals with stakeholders' interactions and institutional capacity influencing water
resource management where competitive demands co-exist. For the case study area of …

A two-stage water allocation strategy for developing regional economic-environment sustainability

J Li, Y Qiao, X Lei, A Kang, M Wang, W Liao… - Journal of environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
In this study, a new two-stage stochastic interval-parameter fuzzy programming strategy
model is developed for regional economic-environment sustainability, considering the …

[HTML][HTML] Priority water rights. Are they useful for improving water-use efficiency at the irrigation district level?

JA Gómez-Limón, C Gutiérrez-Martín… - Agricultural Water …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper examines the effectiveness of reforming water rights regimes in the agricultural
sector by replacing allocation procedures based on the proportional rule with the …

[HTML][HTML] Improving equity in demand-driven irrigation systems through a rights-preserving water allocation mechanism

W Hassan, T Manzoor, A Muhammad - Agricultural Water Management, 2023 - Elsevier
Allocation mechanisms for irrigation water distribution are largely categorized into demand
and supply based methods. Traditional supply-based mechanisms are built on the notion of …

Promoting competitive water resource use efficiency at the water‐market scale: An intercooperative demand equilibrium‐based approach to water trading

JD Delorit, PJ Block - Water Resources Research, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Water rights law and corresponding markets exist to promote economic water resource use
efficiency by permitting water rights holders to trade allocations. In some regions, hydrologic …

The effect of water rights trading policy on water resource utilization efficiency: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China

S Chen, Y Cao, J Li - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Water shortage has become a serious problem in the world, and low water efficiency is the
key to industrial and agricultural production and sustainable economic development. Based …

Optimal irrigation for sustainable development considering water rights transaction: A Stackelberg-Nash-Cournot equilibrium model

Z Xu, L Yao, X Zhou, M Moudi, L Zhang - Journal of Hydrology, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper focuses on water allocation in an irrigation district considering water rights
transaction. The relationship between the reservoir authority and the sub-area managers is …

Modelling farmer choices for water security measures in the Litani river basin in Lebanon

F Alcon, S Tapsuwan, R Brouwer, M Yunes… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Lebanon is facing an increasing water supply deficit due to the increasing demand for
freshwater, decreasing surface and groundwater resources and malfunctioning water …