Bringing the Analysis to the Policy Context

Alberto Garrido (), M. Ramón Llamas (), Consuelo Varela-Ortega (), Paula Novo (), Roberto Rodríguez-Casado () and Maite M. Aldaya ()
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Alberto Garrido: Technical University of Madrid (UPM)
M. Ramón Llamas: Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Consuelo Varela-Ortega: Technical University of Madrid (UPM)
Paula Novo: Technical University of Madrid (UPM)
Roberto Rodríguez-Casado: Technical University of Madrid (UPM)
Maite M. Aldaya: University of Twente

Chapter Chapter 7 in Water Footprint and Virtual Water Trade in Spain, 2010, pp 95-123 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter attempts to bring the evaluations reported in Chaps. 5 and 6 to the policy context, by looking at economic performance, variations and causal relationships associated with agricultural and water policies. We start by reviewing changes in land productivity, both rainfed and irrigated, from a temporal and spatial perspective. Since agricultural policies are markedly different across Spanish provinces, and since the EU Common Agricultural Policy also changed over the 1996–2006 study period, our spatial and temporal analysis yields conclusions about how Spanish agriculture has changed, notably in irrigated vs. rainfed farming, with profound impacts on the patterns of water use in agriculture. In the second section, we offer a dynamic analysis of the economic incentives for inter-basin and intra-basin surface transfers, with water scarcity being the major driving force. Water allocation and economic efficiency across regions and basins are the main focus of this section.

Keywords: Water Scarcity; Water Footprint; Virtual Water; Land Productivity; Blue Water (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5741-2_7

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