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Author Baum, Z.; Palatnik, R.R.; Kan, I.; Rapaport-Rom, M.
Title Economic Impacts of Water Scarcity Under Diverse Water Salinities Type Journal Article
Year (down) 2016 Publication Water Econs. Policy Abbreviated Journal Water Econs. Policy
Volume 02 Issue 01 Pages 1550013
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Abstract Exploitation of alternative water sources is expected to grow in the decades to come in water-stressed countries with fast population growth, especially in regions where a further decline of natural freshwater availability is expected due to climate change. Increasing utilization of non-freshwater usually leads to salinity build-up in fields and water sources as well as accumulation of various pollutants — both having a considerable impact on the suitability of non-freshwater for irrigation due to constraints associated with crop salinity tolerance and food safety regulations. We developed a linked Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) — farm-level model of a water economy with representation for multiple water types characterized by different qualities. We employ the model to assess the impact of water shortage on the Israeli economy, where steadily growing water scarcity leads to an increasing utilization of alternative water sources. We simulate water shortage scenarios based on the Long Term National Master Plan for The Water Economy developed by the Israeli Water Authority (IWA). The linked CGE — farm-level model provides a mechanism for estimating the Constant Elasticity of Substitution (CES) rates between different irrigation water types used in agriculture. This mechanism accounts for the effects of salinity on yields and takes into consideration food safety regulations for irrigating crops with treated wastewater. We demonstrate that, in contrast to previous studies, CES rates between different water types are not identical. The CES rates obtained in our study have relatively low values, which can be attributed to the constraints associated with crop salinity tolerance and food safety regulations. Our results reveal that water shortage can lead to a significant decline of Israel’s GDP, where a considerable part of the decline is attributed to the decrease in agricultural outputs. The magnitude of the impact depends on the underlying assumptions regarding future desalination capacity. To further study the effect of desalination, we run simulations under various desalination levels and examine its impact on the GDP. We also examine the extent to which the impact of water shortage is sensitive to CES rates between different irrigation water types.
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Author Palatnik, R.R.
Title Economic Impacts Of Water Scarcity Under Diverse Water Salinities Type Conference Article
Year (down) 2015 Publication Abbreviated Journal
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Area Expedition Conference Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental, and Resource Economists EAERE 21, Helsinki, Finland, 2015-06-24 to 2015-06-27
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Call Number MA @ admin @ Serial 2702
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Author Palatnik, R.R.
Title Economic Impacts Of Water Scarcity Under Diverse Water Salinities Type Conference Article
Year (down) 2015 Publication Abbreviated Journal
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Area Expedition Conference TradeM International Workshop, Securing Food Using Non-Conventional Water Sources, 2015-02-24 to 2015-02-24
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Call Number MA @ admin @ Serial 2703
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Author Palatnik, R.R.
Title Climate-dependent yields Type Report
Year (down) 2015 Publication FACCE MACSUR Reports Abbreviated Journal
Volume 6 Issue Pages D-T2.1
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Abstract In this report we summarize the contributions made by four groups to the subject of climate dependent yields. The first is by Waldemar Bojar, Leszek Knopik, Jacek Zarski, Cezary Slawinski, Piotr Baranowski and Wojciech Zarski on the subject of “the impact of extreme climate changes on the forecasted agriculture production”. It presents general characteristics of resources and outputs of agriculture in the Kujawsko-Pomorskie (K&P) and Lubelskie regions, based on statistical databases and the literature review. In this study, some statistically significant dependencies between the climatic parameters and yields of selected important crops in the abovementioned regions were worked out on the basis of empirical survey conducted in the University of Technology and Life Sciences and Institute of Agrophysics in Lublin. Efforts were taken to make integrated assessments of forecasted agricultural outputs influenced by climate extreme phenomena on the basis of the found dependencies’ yields – precipitation and the data coming from wide area model regional outputs such as prices, areas of farmland and yields. The second contribution is by Bojar W., Knopik L. and Zarski J. on the subject of “integrated assessment of business crop productivity and profitability to use in food supply forecasting”. It examines the proposals to build a model describing the amount of precipitation and taking into account periods without rain. This model is based on a mixture of gamma distribution and one point-distribution. The third contribution is by Iddo Kan on the Vegetative Agricultural Land Use Economic (VALUE) model. It discusses the sub-task with respect to crops of statistically estimating with statistical methods predictions of expected crop-yield contingent on climate, soil and production cost for use in existing trade models, or refined versions thereof, and how VALUE can contribute to this sub-task. The fourth contribution was made by Christoph Muller and Richard D. Robertson on the subject of “projecting future crop productivity for global economic modelling”. It supplies a set of climate impact scenarios on agricultural land productivity derived from two climate models and two biophysical crop growth models to account for some of the uncertainty inherent in climate and impact models. No Label
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Author Palatnik, R.R.
Title Assessing The Impact Of Climate Change On Agriculture And A Water Economy With A Diverse Mix Of Water Types – The Israeli Case Study Type Conference Article
Year (down) 2014 Publication Abbreviated Journal
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Area Expedition Conference Western Economic Association International 89th Annual Conference, Denver, USA, 2014-06-27 to 2014-07-01
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Call Number MA @ admin @ Serial 2701
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