Alternative tariff structures and household composition: Evidence from Spain's Valencia region
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| Title: | Alternative tariff structures and household composition: Evidence from Spain's Valencia region |
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| Authors: | García-López, Marcos | Montaño, Borja | Melgarejo, Joaquín |
| Research Group/s: | Historia e Instituciones Económicas (HIE) | Recursos Hídricos y Desarrollo Sostenible |
| Center, Department or Service: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Análisis Económico Aplicado | Universidad de Alicante. Instituto Universitario del Agua y las Ciencias Ambientales |
| Keywords: | Water price | Alternative tariff structures | Household composition |
| Issue Date: | 14-Sep-2022 |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| Citation: | Utilities Policy. 2022, 79: 101433. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jup.2022.101433 |
| Abstract: | Water pricing is one of the fundamental tools for water resources management. However, the current tariff structure in Spain has associated problems in relation to the composition of households. This paper analyses the current tariffs of Spain's Valencia region and studies the effect of alternative tariff structures. The results show an imbalance irrespective of the tariff applied even when the number of household members is considered, as the relationship between the number of household members and water consumption is not linear. Therefore, the problem is not the tariff structure per se but not including the composition of the household in the tariff. |
| Sponsor: | This work was financed by the Office of the Vice President of Research and Knowledge Transfer of the University of Alicante, Spain (Marcos García-López has a scholarship for The Training of University Teachers from the University of Alicante (UAFPU 2019-16). |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/126958 |
| ISSN: | 0957-1787 (Print) | 1878-4356 (Online) |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jup.2022.101433 |
| Language: | eng |
| Type: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
| Rights: | © 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
| Peer Review: | si |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jup.2022.101433 |
| Appears in Collections: | INV - Recursos Hídricos y Desarrollo Sostenible - Artículos de Revistas INV - Historia e Instituciones Económicas - Artículos de Revistas |
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