The irrigations of public initiative in the river basin of Guadalquivir : an economical analysis

• Author : Noelina Rodriguez Ferrero
• Year : 2001
• Language : Spanish
• Type :    biblio
• Document ID :    201

Abstract

Economic analysis of the models of water management in Spain. In the first part (chapters 1-2), is an overlook of certain concepts about water and a presentation is made of the water policy in Spain during the XXth century. The second part (chapter 3) studies, in the first
place, the organism of river basin, the Hydrographic Confederation of the Guadalquivir and the different organs that compose it, classified according to their function. In the third and last part (chapter 4), that constitutes the fundamental contribution of this work, the economic effects induced by the use of the water in the selected twenty-two irrigated zones of public initiative in the river basin of the Guadalquivir are studied, the causes and
consequences of an inefficient management, very far from the economic rationality, are analyzed.