The Economic Impact of Drought on the Irrigated Crops in the Segura River Basin
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Título: | The Economic Impact of Drought on the Irrigated Crops in the Segura River Basin |
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Autor/es: | Redondo Orts, José Alberto | López-Ortiz, María Inmaculada |
Grupo/s de investigación o GITE: | Historia e Instituciones Económicas (HIE) |
Centro, Departamento o Servicio: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Análisis Económico Aplicado | Universidad de Alicante. Instituto Universitario del Agua y las Ciencias Ambientales |
Palabras clave: | Drought | Scarcity | Water policy | Hydrological planning | Water law | Agri-food systems | Water resources | Cost assessment |
Área/s de conocimiento: | Historia e Instituciones Económicas |
Fecha de publicación: | 22-oct-2020 |
Editor: | MDPI |
Cita bibliográfica: | Redondo-Orts JA, López-Ortiz MI. The Economic Impact of Drought on the Irrigated Crops in the Segura River Basin. Water. 2020; 12(11):2955. https://doi.org/10.3390/w12112955 |
Resumen: | Throughout history, the Segura River Basin, located in the south-east of the Iberian Peninsula, has suffered from countless drought periods. They have largely been managed as occasional episodes of crisis through the reduction of the resources applied or the mobilisation of extraordinary resources. Recently, the phenomena of drought and water scarcity have been incorporated into Spain's national hydrological plan. This has given rise to an improvement in their diagnosis and management and enables us to learn about how climate change affects their frequency and intensity. Agriculture is highly relevant in the basin, comprising mainly irrigated crops that represent more than 80% of total demand for a net area of more than 260,000 ha. There is an undeniable connection between this sector and the availability of water and in periods of drought, such as the recent episode in the Segura River Basin (drought declaration in the territorial area of the Segura River Basin through Royal Decree 356/2015 of 8 May), the reduction in the availability of water generates a significant impact on the agricultural sector. Therefore, by analysing the production value and net margin generated in the agri-food systems, both the values established in the 2015/21 Hydrological Plan and those estimated in the drought period 2015–2019, we seek to assess the economic impacts generated, as knowing the direct effect on the agricultural sector will enable us to quantify the opportunity cost resulting from not being able to apply 100% of the resources demanded. |
Patrocinador/es: | This research was funded by the Water Chair of the University of Alicante-Alicante Provincial Council (2020) and by the CampusHábitat5U network of excellence. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/109936 |
ISSN: | 2073-4441 |
DOI: | 10.3390/w12112955 |
Idioma: | eng |
Tipo: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Derechos: | © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Revisión científica: | si |
Versión del editor: | https://doi.org/10.3390/w12112955 |
Aparece en las colecciones: | INV - Historia e Instituciones Económicas - Artículos de Revistas |
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