TY - JOUR
T1 - Role of economic instruments in water allocation reform
T2 - lessons from Europe
AU - Rey, Dolores
AU - Pérez-Blanco, Carlos Dionisio
AU - Escriva-Bou, Alvar
AU - Girard, Corentin
AU - Veldkamp, Ted I.E.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the UK Natural Environment Research Council under the Historic Droughts Project (NE/L010070/1); AXA Research Fund under the BOOSTER BLUE Project (Economic Instruments For Sustainable Water Management And Resilient Growth In Water Stressed Areas); Climate-KIC Europe through the Climate Smart Agriculture Booster project AGRO ADAPT (Service for Local and Economy Wide Assessment of Adaptation Actions in Agriculture); and the EU 7th Framework Programme through the project Earth2Observe (grant agreement 603608). No new data were collected in the course of this research.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
Copyright:
Copyright 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2019/3/4
Y1 - 2019/3/4
N2 - A growing number of countries are reforming their water allocation regimes through the use of economic instruments. This article analyzes the performance of economic instruments in water allocation reforms compared against their original design objectives in five European countries: England, France, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands. We identify the strengths of, barriers to and unintended consequences of economic instruments in the varying socio-economic, legal, institutional and biophysical context in each case study area, and use this evidence to draw out underlying common guidelines and recommendations. These lessons will help improve the effectiveness of future reforms while supporting more efficient water resources allocation.
AB - A growing number of countries are reforming their water allocation regimes through the use of economic instruments. This article analyzes the performance of economic instruments in water allocation reforms compared against their original design objectives in five European countries: England, France, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands. We identify the strengths of, barriers to and unintended consequences of economic instruments in the varying socio-economic, legal, institutional and biophysical context in each case study area, and use this evidence to draw out underlying common guidelines and recommendations. These lessons will help improve the effectiveness of future reforms while supporting more efficient water resources allocation.
KW - economic instruments
KW - Europe
KW - Integrated Water Resources Management
KW - Water allocation
KW - water policy
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85040992427&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/07900627.2017.1422702
DO - 10.1080/07900627.2017.1422702
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85040992427
VL - 35
SP - 206
EP - 239
JO - International Journal of Water Resources Development
JF - International Journal of Water Resources Development
SN - 0790-0627
IS - 2
ER -