Irrigator preferences for water recovery budget expenditure in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia

被引：33
作者：
Loch, Adam [1 ]
Wheeler, Sarah [1 ,2 ]
Boxall, Peter
Hatton-Macdonald, Darla [3 ]
Adamowicz, W. L. [2 ]
Bjornlund, Henning [1 ,4 ]
机构：
[1] Univ S Australia, Sch Business, Sch Commerce, Ctr Regulat & Market Anal, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia
[2] Univ Alberta, Dept Resource Econ & Environm Sociol, Fac Agr Life & Environm Sci, Edmonton, AB T6G 2M7, Canada
[3] CSIRO, Sustainable Ecosyst Sci, Urrbrae, SA, Australia
[4] Univ Lethbridge, Dept Econ, Lethbridge, AB T1K 3M4, Canada
来源：
LAND USE POLICY | 2014年 / 36卷
基金：
澳大利亚研究理事会;
关键词：
Economic analysis; Irrigator preferences; Water recovery; Budget allocation; POLICY;
D O I：
10.1016/j.landusepol.2013.09.007
中图分类号：
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号：
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要：
This study presents results from a survey of southern Murray-Darling Basin irrigators about the percentage of funds they would allocate towards a variety of current and hypothetical trade-off choices for recovering environmental water. The findings, allowing for state-based differentials, suggest irrigators marginally prefer infrastructure expenditure above the sum of a set of market-based options (namely water entitlement purchasing, temporary water market products and exit-based packages). However, their infrastructure preference weighting is less than current budget expenditure, and use of market-based options has higher support from irrigators than current policy recognises. Further, analysis of past and current infrastructure and market-based water recovery expenditures reveals large price-permegalitre disparities, which may be explained by diminishing marginal returns. Targeting expenditure in line with preferences of irrigators may result in increases in economic efficiency. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页码：396 / 404
页数：9
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