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	Author	Nicklin, K.; Challinor, A.
	Title	Addressing uncertainty in model input and evaluation data			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2016	Publication		Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages
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	Publisher		Place of Publication	Berlin (Germany)	Editor
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN		ISBN		Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference	International Crop Modelling Symposium iCROPM 2016, 2016-05-15 to 2016-05-17, Berlin, Germany
	Notes				Approved	no
	Call Number	MA @ admin @			Serial	4894
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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	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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	Language	English	Summary Language		Original Title
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	Series Volume		Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	2382-624x	ISBN		Medium	Article
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes	TradeM			Approved	no
	Call Number	MA @ admin @			Serial	4656
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	Author	Leogrande, R.; Lopedota, O.; Vitti, C.; Ventrella, D.; Montemurro, F.
	Title	Saline water and municipal solid waste compost application on tomato crop: Effects on plant and soil			Type	Journal Article
	Year	2016	Publication	Journal of Plant Nutrition	Abbreviated Journal
	Volume	39	Issue	4	Pages	491-501
	Keywords	ftnotmacsur
	Abstract	A field experiment was conducted in Southern Italy to evaluate the effects of different water quality and fertilizers on yield performance of tomato crop. In mineral nitrogen (N) fertilizer and irrigation with fresh water (Electrical Conductivity, EC, = 0.9 dS m⁻¹) (FWF); mineral N fertilizer and irrigation with saline water (EC = 6.0 dS m⁻¹) (SWF); municipal solid waste (MSW) compost and irrigation with fresh water (EC = 0.9 dS m⁻¹) (FWC); MSW compost and irrigation with saline water (EC = 6.0 dS m⁻¹) (SWC). At harvest, weight and number of fruits and refractometric index (°Brix) were measured, total and marketable yield and dry matter of fruit were calculated. The results indicated that MSW compost, applied as amendment, could substitute the mineral fertilizer. In fact, in the treatments based on compost application, the tomato average marketable yield increased by 9% compared with treatments with mineral fertilizer. The marketable yield in the SWF and SWC treatments (with an average soil EC in two years to about 3.5 dS m⁻¹) decreased respectively of 20 and 10%, in respect to fresh water treatments. At the end of the experiment, application of compost significantly decreased the sodium absorption rate (SAR) of SWC treatment in respect of SWF (−29.9%). Significant differences were observed among the four treatments both on soil solution cations either exchangeable cations. In particular compost application increased the calcium (Ca) and potassium (K) contents in saturated soil paste respect to the SWF ones (31.4% and 59.5%, respectively). At the same time saturated soil paste sodium (Na) in SWC treatment recorded a decrease of 17.4% compared to SWF.
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	Call Number	MA @ admin @			Serial	4991
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	Author	Wilson, A.
	Title	Emerging infectious disease challenges			Type	Conference Article
	Year	2016	Publication		Abbreviated Journal
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	Area		Expedition		Conference	STAR-IDAZ (Global Strategic Alliances for the Coordination of Research on the Major Infectious Diseases of Animals and Zoonoses) Foresight workshop on Emerging Infectious Disease Challenges, 2014-06-16 to 2014-06-16
	Notes				Approved	no
	Call Number	MA @ admin @			Serial	4895
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	Author	Olesen, J.E.
	Title	Socio-economic impacts – agricultural systems			Type	Book Chapter
	Year	2016	Publication		Abbreviated Journal
	Volume		Issue		Pages	397-407
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	Publisher		Place of Publication		Editor	Quante, M.; Colijn, F.
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	Series Editor		Series Title	North Sea Region climate change assessment	Abbreviated Series Title
	Series Volume	Regional Climate Studies	Series Issue		Edition
	ISSN	1862-0248 (series)	ISBN	978-3-319-39745-0 (eBook), 978-3-319-39745-0 (hardcover)	Medium
	Area		Expedition		Conference
	Notes				Approved	no
	Call Number				Serial	4828
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