Water exchanges versus water works: Insights from a computable general equilibrium model for the Balearic Islands

Water Resources Research

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2004, Pages

  Gómez, Carlos M ^a   Tirado, Dolores ^b   Rey Maquieira, Javier ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Efficiency; General equilibrium analysis; Water economics

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; NATURAL WATER GEOCHEMISTRY;

COMPUTABLE GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM MODEL (CGE); DESALINIZATION PLANTS; SOCIAL ACCOUNTING MATRIX (SAM);

WATER RESOURCES;

COMPUTABLE GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; WATER ECONOMICS; WELFARE ECONOMICS;

AGRICULTURE; WATER RESOURCES;

BALEARIC ISLANDS; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN; WORLD;

EID: 9644272483     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004WR003235     Document Type: Article

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