Modeling water resources management at the basin level methodology and application to the Maipo River Basin

Executive summary -- Introduction -- The Chilean context and the study basin -- Introduction -- The Maipo River Basin -- Challenges for water allocation in the basin -- Modeling framework -- The river basin network -- Hydrologic processes -- Economic components -- Institutional framework -- Model im...

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1. Verfasser: Cai, Ximing (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Ringler, Claudia (VerfasserIn), Rosegrant, Mark W. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Washington DC Internat. Food Policy Research Inst. c 2006
Schriftenreihe:Research report / International Food Policy Research Institute 149
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Zusammenfassung:Executive summary -- Introduction -- The Chilean context and the study basin -- Introduction -- The Maipo River Basin -- Challenges for water allocation in the basin -- Modeling framework -- The river basin network -- Hydrologic processes -- Economic components -- Institutional framework -- Model implementation, solution, and calibration -- Integration of model components -- Data management -- Solving the model -- Summary -- Basin-optimizing solution and sensitivity analyses -- Basin optimizing solution -- Sensitivity analyses -- Summary on the basin-optimizing solution -- Water trade analysis -- Introduction -- Scenario analysis of water rights and markets -- Summary of water trading analysis -- Water use efficiency analysis -- Introduction -- Efficiency indicators -- Efficiency changes responding to economic incentives -- Local infrastructure improvement and water availability -- Summary on water use efficiency -- Irrigation technology choices -- Introduction -- Irrigation technology choices vs water prices and salinity -- Irrigation technology choice under hydrologic uncertainty -- Summary on irrigation technology choices -- Water vs. other inputs? Analysis based on a... -- introduction -- Calibration of a holistic economic-hydrologic model -- Calibration algorithms -- Conclusions on input substitutions -- Conclusions and recommendations -- Findings -- Some technical concerns -- Future work
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references
Beschreibung:XVII, 151 S.
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ISBN:0896291529
0-89629-152-9
9780896291522
978-0-89629-152-2