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Drought Management Plans and Water Availability in Agriculture. A Risk Assessment Model for a Southern European Basin

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  • Carlos Dionisio Pérez Blanco

    (University of Alcalá de Henares and Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies in Water Technologies (IMDEA-Water))

  • Carlos Mario Gómez Gómez

    (University of Alcalá de Henares and Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies in Water Technologies)

Abstract

The Drought Management Plans (DMPs) are a regulatory instrument that establishes priorities among the different water uses and defines more stringent constraints to access to publicly provided water during droughts, especially for non-priority uses such as agriculture. These plans have recently become widespread across EU southern basins. Shockingly, in some of these basins the plans were approved without an assessment of the potential impacts that they may have over the economic activities exposed to water restrictions. This paper develops a stochastic methodology to estimate the expected water availability in agriculture that results from the decision rules of the recently approved DMPs. The methodology is applied to the particular case of the Guadalquivir River Basin in southern Spain. Results show that if the DMPs are successfully enforced, available water will satisfy in average 62.2% of the annual demand. This is much lower than the minimum water access reliability of 90% that the Spanish law has assured to irrigators so far.

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  • Carlos Dionisio Pérez Blanco & Carlos Mario Gómez Gómez, 2014. "Drought Management Plans and Water Availability in Agriculture. A Risk Assessment Model for a Southern European Basin," Working Papers 2014.57, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei.
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    1. Vernon W. Ruttan, 2002. "Productivity Growth in World Agriculture: Sources and Constraints," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 16(4), pages 161-184, Fall.
    2. Julio Berbel & Solveig Kolberg & Julia Martin-Ortega, 2012. "Assessment of the Draft Hydrological Basin Plan of the Guadalquivir River Basin (Spain)," International Journal of Water Resources Development, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 28(1), pages 43-55.
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    Keywords

    Agricultural Economics; Water Economics; Risk Management; Guadalquivir River Basin.;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q1 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture
    • Q25 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Water

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