Economic valuation of water and «willingness to pay» analysis with repect to tropical fruit production in southeastern Spain
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This work was performed as part of INIA Project SC99-061Fecha de publicación
2005Editorial
Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA)Cita bibliográfica
CALATRAVA LEYVA, J., SAYADI, S. Economic valuation of water and «willingness to pay» analysis with repect to tropical fruit production in southeastern Spain. Spanish Journal of Agricultural Research, 3 (1): 25-33. ISSN 1695-971-XRevisión por pares
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Valor económico del aguaFruticultura tropical
Disposición a pagar por agua
Economic value of water
Tropical fruit production
Willingness to pay for water
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[ENG] This paper reports a survey of how 64 tropical fruit growers from the Granada coast of Spain use and value their
water resources. This area produces crops of high added value. The agricultural demand for water is ever increasing
and is much greater than the actual supply. This problem is worsened by the infiltration of seawater into the aquifers
that provide most of the irrigation water for the area. Moreover, the population increases five-fold in the summer due
to tourism, further aggravating the problem of water scarcity. Technical innovations, especially the reuse of urban
wastewater, and economic solutions, namely increasing the price of water, have been proposed under the European
Union Water Framework Directive. The main questions in the survey are described and the responses analysed. The
productive, technological and resource management characteristics that determine the growers’ expressed willingness
to pay for the water they use, as well as their attitude towards ...
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