Agricultural Use of Groundwater: Towards Integration Between Agricultural Policy and Water Resources Management

299 Pages·2001·5.094 MB·English

by  Cesare Dosi (auth.), Cesare Dosi (eds.)

AGRICULTURAL USE OF GROUNDWATER
FONDAZIONE ENI ENRICO MATTEI (FEEM) SERIES ON ECONOMICS,
ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT
This se ries serves as an outlet for the main results of FEEM's research programmes in
the areas of economics, energy and environment.
The Scientific Advisory Board of the series is composed as folIows:
Kenneth J. Arrow
Department of Economics
Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
William J. Baumol
C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics
New York University, New York City, USA
Partha Dasgupta
Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Karl-Göran Mäler
The Beijer Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Ignazio Musu
University of Venice, Venice, Italy
Henry Tulkens
Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE)
Universite Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Domenico Siniscalco (Series Editor)
Director, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Milan, Italy
and
University of Turin, Turin, Italy
Giorgio Barba Navaretti (Series Associate Editor)
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei
and
University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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Agricultural Use of
Groundwater
Towards Integration Between
Agricultural Policy and
Water Resources Management
Edited by
CESARE DOSI
University 0/ Padova and Fondazione Eni E. Mattei
Springer-Science+Business Media, B.V.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data is available.
ISBN 978-90-481-5650-4 ISBN 978-94-015-9781-4 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-94-015-9781-4
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Table of Contents
PREFACE vii
CONTRIBUTORS ix
PART I
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1. Improving Agricultural Use of Groundwater: Policy
Issues and Further Research Directions
Cesare Dosi 3
PART 11
GROUNDWATER USE AND THE VALUE OF CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 2. Freshwater Availability and Groundwater Use in
Southern Europe
Cesare Dosi and Stefania Tonin 15
CHAPTER 3. Agricultural Impacts on Groundwater: Processes,
Modelling and Decision Support
Andrea Giacomelli, Ca rlo Giupponi and Claudio Paniconi 35
CHAPTER 4. Issues in the Valuation of Groundwater Benefits
Nir Becker and Stefania Tonin 77
CHAPTER 5. Misconceptions in Aquifer Over-exploitation:
Implications for Water Policy in Southern Europe
Nuria Hernandez-Mora, Ramon Llamas and Luis Martinez Cortina 107
PART III
GROUNDWATER QUALITY MANAGEMENT: REGULATION,
ECONOMIC INSTRUMENTS AND VOLUNTARY APPROACH ES
CHAPTER 6. Controlling Groundwater Pollution from Agricultural
Non-point Sources: an Overview of Policy Instruments
Cesare Dosi and Naomi Zeitouni 129
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CHAPTER 7. Voluntary and Compulsory Measures to Implement a
More Sustainable Agriculture in Water Catchment Areas
Ingo Heinz 157
CHAPTER 8. Negotiated Agreements Between Water Suppliers and
Farmers in the Context of Changing Water Networks in Europe
Hans Th.A. Bressers, Stefan M.M. Kuks and Geerten J.1. Schrama 169
CHAPTER 9. Negotiated Agreements on Groundwater Quality
Management: a Case Study of a Private Contractual Framework for
Sustainable Farming Practices
Mare Barbier and Eduardo Chia 195
PART IV
AGRICULTURAL POLICY AND WATER USE
CHAPTER 10. Agricultural Policy, Environmental Impacts and
Water Use Under Production Uncertainty
Giannis Karagiannis and Anastasios Xepapadeas 215
CHAPTER 11. Agricultural Subsidies, Water Pricing and Farmers'
Responses: Implications for Water Policy and CAP Reform
Javier Calatrava and Alberto Garrido 241
CHAPTER 12. Socio-economic and Institutional Factors Affecting
Water Resources Management in a CAP Framework
Felisa Cefia and Dionisio Ortiz 259
CHAPTER 13. The Environmental Impacts of CAP: An Overview
of the Present State of Knowledge and Research Needs
Floor Brouwer 275
INDEX 291
Preface
Groundwater is endangered and polluted in several ways. Conservation and
better management of this invisible resource should be a key ingredient of
water policies. This is especially true in those areas, such as southern European
regions, which are most affected by scarcity problems and competition between
fresh water uses and users.
Agriculture is an important user of groundwater not only in terms of abstrac
tions, but also in an incidental sense, by generating and/or releasing pollutants
such as salts, nitrates, and plant-protection products, altering groundwater
quality. Agricultural policies, traditionally directed towards other objectives,
are beginning to pay more attention to environmental considerations. However,
more effective initiatives are required to reduce the press ure upon groundwater
resourees and to achieve a better integration of agricultural and environmen
tal policies.
This volume has developed out of three workshops held as part of the
concerted action SAGA, 'Sustainable Agricultural Use of Aquifers in Southern
Europe: Integration between Agricultural and Water Management Policies'
(FAIR5-CT97-3673) carried out with financial support from the Commis si on
of the European Communities, Agriculture and Fisheries (FAIR) RTD
programme.
The workshops brought together SAGA partners, as weil as other European
scholars working in different but complementary fields. The aim was to get a
picture of the interlinkages between agriculture, agricultural policies and
groundwater management, to review policy approaches and instruments for
improving management, and to identify further research directions.
I wish to thank all contributors and colleagues working on the behalf of
SAGA partners who have actively contributed to the preparation of this
volume. I am also grateful to three external referees for many helpful comments,
and to Roberta Ranzini, Dino Pinelli and Francesca Carobba for their assis
tance during the process that took us to the final manuscript.
Finally, I wish to thank the Commission for funding the workshops and the
preparation of this volume, whose content, however, does not necessarily reflect
its views and in no way anticipates the Commission's future policy in this area.
Cesare Dosi
VII
Contributors
Mare Barbier is a researcher in socio-economics and management sciences at
the National Institute for Agronomie Research (INRA), Grenoble, France.
Nir Becker is a senior lecturer of environmental and resources economics in
the Tel-Hai College (Israel), and a researcher at the Natural Resources and
Environmental Research Center (NRERC), University of Haifa, Israel.
Hans Th.A. Bressers is a professor in policy studies and environmental policy
and the scientific director of the Center for Clean Technology and
Environmental Policy (CSTM), University of Twente, the Netherlands
Floor Brouwer is head of the Research Unit on Environment and Technology
in the Agricultural Economics Research Institute (LEI), Wageningen
University, the Netherlands.
Javier Calatrava is a doctoral student and research assistant in the Department
of Agricultural Economics, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain.
Felisa Ceiia is a professor in agricultural economics and policy in the
Department of Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Policy, University of
C6rdoba, Spain.
Eduardo Chia is a senior researcher in agricultural economics at the National
Institute for Agronomie Research (INRA), Dijon, France.
Cesare Dosi is an associate professor in environmental economics and public
finance in the Department of Economics, University of Padova, and a senior
research fellow at the Fondazione ENI E. Mattei (FEEM), Milano, Italy.
Alberto Garrido is an associate professor in environmental and resource eco
no mies and microeconomics in the Department of Agricultural Economics,
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain.
Andrea Giacomelli is a researcher in hydrologie modelling and GIS at the
Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia (CRS4),
Cagliari, Italy.
Ca rIo Giupponi is a lecturer in the Department of Agronomy, University of
Padova, and a senior researcher in land use and natural resources manage
ment at the Fondazione ENI E. Mattei (FEEM), Milano, Italy.
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x Contributors
logo Heinz is a senior economist at the Institute for Environmental Research
(INFU), University of Dortmund, Germany.
Nuria Hernandez-Mora is researcher in land use and water resources manage
ment at the Fundaci6n Marcelino Botin, Madrid, Spain.
Giannis Karagiannis is a lecturer in agricultural economics and microeconomics
in the Department of Economics, University of Crete, Greece
Stefan M.M. Kuks is a senior research associate in the Center for Clean
Technology and Environmental Policy (CSTM), University of Twente, and
executive member of the Regge and Dinkel Waterboard, the Netherlands.
Ramon L1amas is a professor of hydrogeology in the Universidad Complutense
de Madrid, Spain, and a member of the board of directors of the International
Water Resources Association.
Luis Martinez Cortina is a researcher in groundwater management and model
ling at Fundaci6n Marcelino Botin, Madrid, Spain.
Dionisio Ortiz is a doctoral student and research assistant in the Department
of Agricultural Economics, Sociology and Policy, University of C6rdoba,
Spain.
Claudio Paniconi is a senior researcher in hydrology and environmental model
ling and head of the Environment Division of the Center for Advanced
Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia (CRS4), Cagliari, Italy.
Geerten J.I. Schrama is a senior research associate in the Center for Clean
Technology and Environmental Policy (CSTM), University of Twente, the
Netherlands.
Stefania Tonin is a research er in environmental economics and water resources
management at the Fondazione ENI E. Mattei (FEEM), Milano, Italy.
Anastasios Xepapadeas is a professor of economics in the Department of
Economics, University of Crete, and a senior research fellow at the Center
for Economic Research and Environmental Strategy (CERES), Athens,
Greece.
Naomi Zeitouni is a lecturer of environmental and resources economics in the
Department of Economics and a research er at the Natural Resources and
Environmental Research Center (NRERC), University of Haifa. Israel.
PART I
In trod uction