PMID- 12369403
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20030206
LR  - 20021008
IS  - 0301-4797 (Print)
IS  - 0301-4797 (Linking)
VI  - 65
IP  - 4
DP  - 2002 Aug
TI  - Establishing politically feasible water markets: a multi-criteria approach.
PG  - 411-29
AB  - A multiple criteria decision-making (MCDM) model to simulate the establishment of 
      water markets is developed. The environment is an irrigated area governed by a 
      non-profit agency, which is responsible for water production, allocation, and 
      pricing. There is a traditional situation of historical rights, average-cost 
      pricing for water allocation, large quantities of water used, and inefficiency. A 
      market-oriented policy could be implemented by accounting for ecological and 
      political objectives such as saving groundwater and safeguarding historical 
      rights while promoting economic efficiency. In this paper, a problem is solved by 
      compromise programming, a multi-criteria technique based on the principles of 
      Simonian logic. The model is theoretically developed and applied to the Lorca 
      region in Spain near the Mediterranean Sea.
FAU - Ballestero, Enrique
AU  - Ballestero E
AD  - Technical University of Madrid, Spain. eballe@esp.upv.es
FAU - Alarcon, Silverio
AU  - Alarcon S
FAU - Garcia-Bernabeu, Ana
AU  - Garcia-Bernabeu A
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - England
TA  - J Environ Manage
JT  - Journal of environmental management
JID - 0401664
SB  - IM
MH  - Agriculture
MH  - Conservation of Natural Resources/*economics
MH  - Cost Savings
MH  - Costs and Cost Analysis
MH  - Decision Making
MH  - *Environment
MH  - Policy Making
MH  - *Politics
MH  - Water Supply/*economics
EDAT- 2002/10/09 04:00
MHDA- 2003/02/07 04:00
CRDT- 2002/10/09 04:00
PHST- 2002/10/09 04:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2003/02/07 04:00 [medline]
PHST- 2002/10/09 04:00 [entrez]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Environ Manage. 2002 Aug;65(4):411-29.