Estimating irrigation water demand in the Moroccan Drâa Valley using contingent valuation

Journal of Environmental Management

Volumn 92, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2803-2809

  Storm, Hugo ^a   Heckelei, Thomas ^a   Heidecke, Claudia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b Johann Heinrich von Thuenen Institut   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contingent valuation; Demand function; Irrigation water; Least absolute deviation; Marginal willingness to pay; Morocco

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST ESTIMATING; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; GROUNDWATER; IRRIGATION; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

CONTINGENT VALUATION METHODS; CONTINGENT VALUATIONS; DATA AVAILABILITY; DEMAND FUNCTION; IRRIGATION WATERS; LEAST ABSOLUTE DEVIATIONS; LIMITED DATA; MARGINAL WILLINGNESS TO PAY; MOROCCO; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

SURFACE WATERS;

GROUND WATER; SURFACE WATER;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; CONTINGENT VALUATION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA ACQUISITION; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; PRICING POLICY; WATER DEMAND; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY; WATER USE; WILLINGNESS TO PAY;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; CONTINGENT VALUATION; HUMAN; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); MOROCCO; WATER MANAGEMENT;

DRAA VALLEY; MOROCCO;

EID: 79960837953     PISSN: 03014797     EISSN: 10958630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2011.06.027     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Abu Madi M., Braadbaart O., Al-Sa'er R., Alaerts G. Willingness of farmers to pay for reclaimed wastewater in Jordan and Tunisia. Water Science and Technology: Water Supply 2003, 3:115-122.
2. Arrow K., Solow R., Portney P., Leamer E., Radner R., Schuman H. Report of the NOAA Panel on contingent valuation. Federal Register 1993, 58:4601-4614.
3. Birol E., Koundouri P., Kountouris Y. Farmers' Demand for Recycled Wastewater in Cyprus: A Contingent Valuation Approach. Environmental Economy and Policy Research Working Papers 24.2007 2007, University of Cambridge, Department of Land Economics, Available at. http://www.landecon.cam.ac.uk/RePEc/pdf/200724.pdf.
4. Chesher A., Irish M. Residual analysis in the grouped and censored normal linear model. Journal of Econometrics 1987, 34:33-61.
5. Conradie B.I., Hoag D.L. A review of mathematical programming models of irrigation water values. Water SA 2004, 30:287-292.
6. Faux J., Perry G.M. Estimating irrigation water value using Hedonic price analysis: a case study in Malheur County, Oregon. Land Economics 1999, 75:440-452.
7. Greene W.H. Econometric Analysis 2008, Pearson Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ. sixth ed.
8. Griffin R.C., Perry G.M. Volumetric pricing of agricultural water supplies: a case study. Water Resources Research 1985, 21:944-950.
9. Halstead J.M., Luloff A.E., Stevens T.H. Protest bidders in contingent valuation. Northeastern Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 1992, 21:160-169.
10. Heidecke C., Kuhn A. Simulating groundwater charges for the Moroccan Drâa river basin. Agricultural and Marine Sciences 2006, 11:47-54.
11. Hussain R.Z., Young R.A. Estimates of the economic value productivity of irrigation water in Pakistan from farm surveys. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 1985, 21:1021-1027.
12. Liebelt C. Die Wasserwirtschaft im Südmarokkanischen Dratal im Spannungsfeld von lokaler und staatlicher Ressourcenkontrolle. IMPETUS Research Report 2003, Available at. http://www.impetus.uni-koeln.de/fileadmin/content/veroeffentlichungen/publikationsliste/826_abschlussbericht_B-4-1.pdf.
13. Manos B., Papathanasiou J., Bournaris J.T., Paparrizou A., Arabatzis G. Simulation of impacts of irrigated agriculture on income, employment and environment. Operational Research: An International Journal 2009, 9:251-266.
14. Mitchell R.C., Carson R.T. Using Surveys to Value Public Goods: The Contingent Valuation Method 1989, Resources for the Future, Washington, D.C.
15. Ogg C.W., Gollehon N.R. Western irrigation response to pumping costs: a water demand analysis using climatic regions. Water Resources Research 1989, 25:767-773.
16. Etablissement d'un plan directeur de mise en valeur agricole de la vallée du Draa moyen 1981, ORMVAO, ORMVAO.
17. Powell J.L. Least absolute deviations estimation for the censored regression model. Journal of Econometrics 1984, 25:303-325.
18. Shultz S., Soliz B. Stakeholder willingness to pay for watershed restoration in Rural Bolivia. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 2007, 43:947-956.
19. Tiwari D.N. Determining Economic Value of Irrigation Water: Comparison of Willingness to Pay and Indirect Valuation Approaches as a Measure of Sustainable Resource Use. CSERGE Working Paper GEC 98-05 1998, London, Norwich. Available at. http://www.uea.ac.uk/env/cserge/pub/wp/gec/gec_1998_05.htm.
20. Tsur Y., Roe T., Doukkali R., Dinar A., Aguilar E. Pricing Irrigation Water 2004, Resources for the Future, Washington, DC.
21. Whitehead J.C. A practitioner's primer on the contingent valuation method. Handbook on Contingent Valuation 2006, 66-91. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, Northampton. A. Alberini, J.R. Kahn (Eds.).
22. Yokwe S. Water productivity in smallholder irrigation schemes in South Africa. Agricultural Water Management 2009, 96:1223-1228.
23. Yoo S.-H., Kwak S.-J., Kim T.-Y. Dealing with zero response data from contingent valuation surveys: application of least absolute deviations estimator. Applied Economics Letters 2000, 7:181-184.
24. Young R.A. Determining the economic value of water 2005, Resources for the Future, Washington, DC.