SEDIMENTATION OF RESERVOIRS: PREVENTION VS CLEANUP

Mustafa Kapadia, Farhed A. Shah and Glenn Warner

No 19593, 2002 Annual meeting, July 28-31, Long Beach, CA from American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

Abstract: Soil erosion from cropland contributes significantly to reducing storage capacity in reservoirs. A model is developed for comparing economic desirability of various catchment level soil conservation practices. Results from an illustrative case study show that prevention of sediment accumulation can be much more economical than sediment removal at the reservoir level.

Keywords: Resource/Energy; Economics; and; Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28
Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.19593

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