The Economic Valuation of Irrigation under Consideration of Risk and Changes in Water Withdrawal Permits

Abstract: The European Union has established the Water Framework Directive (WFD) as a legal framework to protect all aquatic ecological systems including groundwater. This directive is primarily aiming at water protection and may have advantages for the water regime in sensitive areas. Nevertheless, it may also involve economic disadvantages for agricultural enterprises. In this paper we analyze the economic implications of the WFD for farmers using irrigation, i.e., the negative economic consequences for farms resulting from a reduction of water withdrawal permits in the north-east of Lower Saxony. In a whole farm risk programming approach we show how much benefit farmers loose if the amount of water withdrawal permits is reduced. To avoid solutions that would possibly exceed the farmers’ risk tolerance, the apparently accepted standard deviation of the program’s total gross margin is used as an upper bound in the optimization. This should represent an observable reflection of the individua.... https://www.tib-op.org/ojs/index.php/gjae/article/view/1863

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
The Economic Valuation of Irrigation under Consideration of Risk and Changes in Water Withdrawal Permits ; volume:61 ; number:1 ; year:2012
German journal of agricultural economics ; 61, Heft 1 (2012)

Creator
Kellner, Ulla
Mußhoff, Oliver
Battermann, Henning W.

DOI
10.52825/gjae.v61i1.1863
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2409251011080.094164310811
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  • Kellner, Ulla
  • Mußhoff, Oliver
  • Battermann, Henning W.

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