Water pricing for agricultural production in the South of Iran

Water Resources Management

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 957-964

  Esmaeili, Abdoulkarim ^a   Vazirzadeh, Solmaz ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Iran; Irrigation water; MATP; Water allocation; Water pricing

Indexed keywords

COSTS; CROPS; ECONOMICS; IRRIGATION; PLANNING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER SUPPLY;

IRAN; IRRIGATION WATER; MATP; WATER ALLOCATION; WATER PRICING;

WATER RESOURCES;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; IRRIGATION; MICROECONOMICS; MODELING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; WATER ECONOMICS; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

ASIA; EURASIA; HORMOZGAN; IRAN; MIDDLE EAST;

CUCUMIS SATIVUS;

EID: 60749126327     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-008-9308-y     Document Type: Article

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