The Edwards Aquifer water resource conflict: USDA farm program resource-use incentives?

Water Resources Research

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 3171-3183

  Schaible, Glenn D ^a   McCarl, Bruce A ^b   Lacewell, Ronald D ^b  

^a ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL POLICY; AQUIFER; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; IRRIGATION; WATER RESOURCE; WATER USE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032873888     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999WR900182     Document Type: Article

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