Irrigation water demand for the decision maker

Environment and Development Economics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 643-657

  Bontemps, Christophe ^a   Couture, Stéphane ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Irrigation; Nonparametric method; Programming model; Water demand; Water pricing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0348190114     PISSN: 1355770X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355770X02000396     Document Type: Article

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