Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting

Introduction of all participants

Todd deferred the approval of last year’s meeting minutes.

8:30 a.m. Nick gave a brief introduction and welcome to the Water for Food Institute

9:00 a.m. Taro Mieno gave a research seminar titled “Price Elasticity of Groundwater Demand: Bias due to Incomplete Information”

9:45 a.m. Presentation by Glenn Schaible on “Revised ERS Data Product: Farm-Size Characteristics of U.S. Irrigated Agriculture”

• Will replace “Western Irrigation Data Product”
• Expected to be available on ERS website by end of the year
• 311 Excel spreadsheets summarizing farm-structural characteristics for U.S. irrigated agriculture across all 50 states, with totals for the 17 western States and all 50 states
• State-level data is the finest spatial resolution
• Gave a brief summary of some key summary statistics from the data

10:15 a.m. Break

10:40 a.m. Overview of W3190 scope & objectives by Dannelle Peck

• Project proposal is available online at http://www.nimss.org/projects/view/mrp/outline/16396
• Dannelle’s presentation is available at https://prezi.com/_d7rbkjnucqg/w3190-management-and-policy-challenges-in-a-water-scarce-world/
• Objective 1 is at the farm-level, Objective 2 is at the watershed-level, and objective 3 is at policy-level
• Important upcoming deadlines
  • October 2018: brainstorm next proposal
  • January 2019: proposal due
  • June 2019: respond to reviews
  • End of June 2019: final due
• Mark emphasized that milestones and impacts are very important to document. Especially important to document if the meeting each year provides multi-state collaborations.
• Make sure any stakeholder interactions are included in the report.
• It was noted that our team could benefit from more interdisciplinary perspective. Some commented that the budget only allows travel costs for one person. It was also noted that most of us work interdisciplinary already and so try and leverage those connections within the group.
• Glenn mentioned that reporting in only 170 characters is very difficult.
• Kristi volunteered to explore creating a website that would highlight impacts from the group. Texas A&M Agrilife information sheets provide an excellent template.
• Laura suggested a Choices issue would be excellent. However, there was a recent issue on water scarcity in Choices.
• Dannelle suggested that it needs to be clear in the report that several members contributed to a common output.

11:20 a.m. State reports.

Glenn ERS: Glenn distributed a longer hard copy version of his report. Every year ERS releases Agricultural Normalized Price Estimates. Mentioned book “Competition for Water Resources” that several W3190 members contributed to. Stacy Sneeringer released a report “Comparing Participation in Nutrient Trading by Livestock Operations to Crop Producers in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed” ERS-216. Marshall et al. have a report “Climate Change, Water Scarcity, and Adaptation in the U.S. Field Crop Sector” ERR-201. Ongoing projects: water scarcity, irrigation use, and USDA Conservation Programs; U.S. irrigated agriculture, a farm size analysis; and research on factors influencing adoption of irrigation production systems. ERS is working with USGS and University of Nebraska on the water scarcity component.

Eric Edwards, Utah: Some papers went from forthcoming to now published. Three working papers. 1) Role of irrigation on developing U.S. agriculture. After WWII there was a significant increase in productivity and most of this came from expansion of irrigation. Paper is available on his website. 2) Looked at conservation potential and compared with water development projects. 3) Working with Liebcap to understand where in California there are greater benefits from managing water. Where theory predicts larger common pool problems tend to have greater adjudication but some outliers that tend to have large bargaining costs. Because of last year’s meeting Eric and Kristi submitted an interdisciplinary grant proposal.

Cloe, Michigan State: Participated in a workshop on how water is managed in areas with an abundance of water. A white paper came out of the workshop. Working with hydrologist in California looking at reverse pumping (actively pumping water to increase recharge). Couple agriculture model with urban model, institutions, and hydrology. Estimating value of water in that National Forests provide to urban area in Southern California. Working with Todd and Jordan on grant proposal for groundwater. Several works in progress on markets for water pollution with empirical applications in Cheseapeke Bay and nutrient leaching in California.

Saichon, Michigan State: Interdisciplinary work on BMPs impact on water. Tools are being used by policymakers to try and enhance groundwater recharge. Experimenting in one watershed and going well and looking to expand to another watershed. Last year finished a grant that looked at climate change and hydrology models to create a tool for understanding future. Also looking at institutions in other states (in particular Nebraska) to get ideas for Michigan. Research in Thailand on ecosystem services. Michigan implemented a policy 8 years ago that limited withdrawals in order to protect streamflows.

Laura, Missouri: Missouri is hiring 15 people in sustainability with some emphasis on water. Article on drought tolerant plants is revise and resubmit. Adoption of rain barrels with another student. Land Economics article that looks at transaction costs and participation in CRP, EQIP, and CSP. Looking at comparing water institutions in Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Iowa, and Illinois. Might be interested in adding Michigan after hearing Saichon’s report.

12:05 p.m. Lunch

12:55 p.m. Resumed state reports

Greg, Texas A&M Agrilife: Just started his position in August.

Kent, Arkansas: There are water scarcity issues in winter and spring especially. Projects on solving timing problem. Work on recovering water and storing. Issues with conjunctive water management. A project on return on investment of on-farm reservoirs. A project on off-farm water demand curve. A project looking at the effect of lateral flows on optimal control of groundwater.

Brian, New Mexico: Frank has a project on sustainable water use in El Paso Rio Grande area. Looks at conjunctive water use. Big issue is lawsuit on water use between Texas and New Mexico. Could someone estimate an optimal settlement with Texas? Would it be possible to solve common pool resource problem in proposing the settlement to Texas rather than having court hand down the solution? Salinity management issues as a multistate project with Texas. Interested in looking at how changes in irrigation technology affect return flow and implications for optimal water pricing. Brian is organizing a session on groundwater management at UCOWR.

Kristi and Dannelle, New Mexico: Also proposed a session at UCOWR. Starting to look at groundwater management strategies in a small region in Wyoming that overlies Ogallala Aquifer. Interested in having Mike Young from Australia speak to Wyoming producers. Also working on issues at headwaters of CO River. Trying to quantify the benefits from return flows from irrigation. Dannelle is serving as associate editor for Water Resources Research. Working on a project looking at agricultural management plan on an Indian Reservation. Another project that is a multistate EPSCoR related to climate change, bioenergy, land use, and water. Dannelle is leaving her position at Wyoming and joining ARS, USDA to be a director of a climate hub. Dannelle will still be stationed out of Wyoming.

Jordan, Stephan, and Chris, Colorado: Experiments related to water quality. Some work on well capacity effect on water use in Kansas. Another paper looking at land retirement programs for water conservation. Approached by a group of water users to understand the impact of water conservation policies. Looking at how price and quantity policies affect profits. Report is available on department website. Next step is to understand how groundwater users perceive the management policies. In the survey they are providing different levels of information about the impact of different policies. Hopeful that some conservation policies will actually be implemented. Involved in large CAP project from USDA looking at water use in Ogallala—multi-institutional and multistate. Lab experiments on water use. CGE model on competition for water and land use. Working with engineer that looks at water markets. There is a symposium for John Loomis on December 1. New position is open to fill his position.

Karina and Nick, Nebraska: Multistate work with Kansas looking at how institutions and hydrological conditions affect groundwater use and cropping patterns. In Nebraska, information is all at the district level so difficult to collect information. Working with ERS on project mentioned by Glenn. Trying to understand drivers of groundwater levels across the Ogallala Aquifer. Nebraska has some stream augmentation programs—a combination of water right retirement and engineering project. NRD spending money to buy out water rights. Lots of innovation going on at the district level. Tim Foster has created a freeware version of AquaCrop. Some workshops to learn how to use the tool are being planned.  Project with Environmental Defense Fund on water management. Projects on water transfers and water markets continuing. Looking to have a session on water trading in April. Will have money from USDA for students to travel to the meeting. Working with start-up companies to collect real-time data in the field. Can measure energy and water use real-time.

Nathan, Kansas: There are important policy innovations occurring in Kansas. One such innovation is a Local Enhanced Management Area in Sheridan County that restricts water use. Management plan was supported by farmers. Research looking at how farmers reduced their water use inside the management area compared to those outside the management area. Working on project joint with Nebraska to understand impact of institutions on water use. Has a grad student that just finished a dissertation using AquaCrop and understanding optimal water management under risk aversion with limited well capacity and how that optimal management varies across soils. Working with another grad student on dynamically optimal water extraction accounting for technical change and climate change. Another paper on additionality in Payment for Environmental Service contracts when the technology is diffusing.

2:15 p.m.: Mike Herrington’s report

2:45 p.m.: Break

2:55 p.m.: Continued state reports

Todd, Rhode Island: Publication in Land Economics on simple policies in a detailed economic-hydrologic model. Simple policies have poor distributional qualities. Local policies perform better. Simple groundwater markets may not perform well given hydrologic heterogeneity. Interested in dynamic groundwater markets. Looking at transboundary groundwater management. Finds that international basins are depleted faster. Interested in cognitive mechanism in natural resource use. Ran an experiment on common pool resource use under time pressure.

Mark, Colorado: Since late August has been interim Director of a program in Environment and Sustainability. Put together a session at AWRA on ecosystem valuation. Has been working on an optimization model on optimal payments for ecosystem services.

3:15 p.m. Minutes discussion

• Karina: several papers were submitted. Special issue will be published in the journal Water.
• Brian moved to accept the minutes
• Glenn seconded
• Last year’s minutes were approved

Discussion about location for next year’s meeting

• Todd said Rhode Island could host
• Kristi suggested Washington D.C. as a location and interact with policymakers. Glenn said ERS could host. Could invite USDA and NIFA. Glenn said that if you bring policymakers that you need to have a morning of presentations to make it worth their time or have them present. Glenn had some suggestions of people that we might want to invite.
• Jordan suggested we could tie in with another conference.
• Stephen suggested Sacramento area, but no host there.
• Kent asked if it would be possible to have short presentations in place of state reports.
• An alternative model is to pick a city without a host and just have a meeting.
• Todd suggested we put D.C. as the most likely location but we need more discussion about it.
• The main alternative discussed was having a meeting in Portland with the same timing as AWAR meeting.

Jordan moved for Kent Kovacs to be elected as Secretary

• Karina seconded
• Motion approved

Potential dates for next meeting

• October 12 or 19

Eric said the incoming editor of Choices is from Utah State so talk with Eric if interested in a special issue.

Todd was selected to lead a committee to determine the best options for a location for next year’s meeting.

Meeting adjourned

Objective 1

Dinar (California): 

 Grismer (California):

Michelson, Lacewell, and Ganjegunte (Texas):

Hendricks and Golden (Kansas):

Hurd (New Mexico):

Guilfoos (Rhode Island):

Peterson (Minnesota):

Peck and Hansen (Wyoming):

Paudel (Louisiana):

Cobourn (Virginia):

McCann (Missouri):

Brozović and Schoengold (Nebraska):

W3190 members in NE and KS are creating a database with disaggregated soil and climate data in order to estimate how these factors affect water use.

Singletary (Nevada):

[NSF-WSC grant #1360506]: The long-term goal of this 4-year funded research project is, through a collaborative modeling research design, to integrate and parameterize hydrological and atmospheric models to simulate changes in water flows caused by extreme drought events that (1) reduce Sierra Nevada snow-pack and (2) have the potential to hasten the timing of peak water flows as melting snowpack water moves from the mountains through arid regions and terminates in desert lakes/reservoir/wetlands. The Truckee-Carson River System in northwestern Nevada comprises the case study area.  In addition to the hydrological and atmospheric components, human decision-making is coupled with hydrologic and operational simulation models, in as much as these decisions have the potential to alter the timing and specific locations at which water is withdrawn from the system in drought periods, relative to water years that are not characterized by drought.  Outcomes of individual water use decisions in response to intermittent periods of drought can influence downstream water availability which would in turn affect hydrological outcomes, as well as constraints on downstream users and subsequent individual (ag firms or operations existing the industry) and regional economic outcomes.

[USDA-NIFA-AFRI #69007-23190]: This is a multi-state USDA competitively funded grant supported 5-year integrated research and outreach [Extension] project. Activities, outputs and short-term outcomes included: collaborating with project team members representing University of Nevada, Reno, University of Arizona, Utah State University, 1994 land grant colleges, and FALCON to establish research agenda/activities to achieve project goals; developing a research plan to support the project in partnering with tribal nations to characterize bio-physical and economic factors (and interactions) that influence water-use decisions and related market or non-market outcomes.

Objective 2

Dinar (California): Hydro-economic modeling to assess methods that address management of water in a drought stricken river basin with focus on ecosystem services.

Grismer (California):

Michelson, Lacewell, and Ganjegunte (Texas): Dry Year Options for meeting urban and agricultural water needs were examined for the Edwards Aquifer with five and ten year contracts. 

Hendricks and Golden (Kansas):

Bartholic, Garnache, and Seedang (Michigan):

Hurd (New Mexico): Modeling of climate change impacts on water and agricultural resources extended to the development of system dynamics modeling of climate-human-land use systems.

Gitau (Indiana): Long-term rainfall seasonality analyses revealed that dramatic changes can occur in seasonal rainfall even if no appreciable changes are discernible on an annual basis.

Guilfoos (Rhode Island):

Peterson (Minnesota): Co-edited (with J. Ziolkowska) and contributed synthesis chapter to the book Competition for Water Resources: Experiences and Management Approaches in the US and Europe

Schaible (USDA/ERS)

Peck and Hansen (Wyoming):

Paudel (Louisiana): Water management based on critical area well head level restriction can provide respite from excessive withdrawal of groundwater.

Mullen (Georgia):

Edwards (Utah): "Economic Insight from Utah’s Water Efficiency Supply Curve" submitted to W3190 themed special issue of Water edited by Kristi Hansen and Karina Schoengold

Brozović and Schoengold (Nebraska): We have been working to build a dynamic groundwater model that includes well-yield and more realistic producer decision-making. These efforts, including W3190 members from California and Nebraska as well as other collaborators including hydrologists and agronomists, have resulted in multiple presentations and publications.

Singletary (Nevada): Project team consensus is to utilize participatory research design to: 1) engage Great Basin region tribal communities in climate vulnerability/resiliency assessment; 2) collaboratively identify adaptation strategies viable for tribal nations and traditions that also serve to strengthen/sustain tribal economies through innovative water use; and 3) annually provide a structured participatory forum for tribal communities to share their ideas for methods to address emergent water management issues that are original to and appropriate to their individual tribal community cultural traditions and water resource management challenges and opportunities.

Colby (Arizona): Economic framework developed for analyzing value of advanced remote sensing data to measure and monitor water "savings" in irrigation forbearance agreements.

Tradeoffs estimated using empirical models for providing improved freshwater flows to Mexico Sea of Cortez marine ecosystems through fallowing of irrigated cropland.

Objective 3

Michelson, Lacewell, and Ganjegunte (Texas):

Hendricks and Golden (Kansas):

Bartholic, Garnache, and Seedang (Michigan):

Hurd (New Mexico): Interstate water policy and issues between Texas and New Mexico along the Rio Grande watershed assessed, developed joint interstate research plan and proposal.

Eiswerth (Colorado):

Schaible (USDA/ERS)

Yoder (Washington):

Hearne (North Dakota): The response of western North Dakota communities to expanded demand for industrial water, and residential water were reviewed and assessed. 

Edwards (Utah): USDA AFRI proposal: “Incentives, Markets, and Management to Sustain Water for Agriculture in the Upper Colorado River Basin” $5M, Under Review, with Kristi Hansen

Cobourn (Virginia):

McCann (Missouri):

Brozović and Schoengold (Nebraska):

(1) During the year, W3190 members from NE provided technical support and engagement on water economics and governance as requested to State Senators for a variety of bills and resolutions in the Nebraska state legislature, as well as to the Public Policy Center of California, the Environmental Defense Fund, the Washington State Department of Ecology, one of the California Groundwater Management Agencies, and to the CSG West Legislative Council on River Governance.

(2) W3190 members in NE have been working to understand the potential for formal and informal water transactions to provide risk management tools to producers in the West. Activities have included workshops to water managers and decision makers in multiple states, presentations, and publications.

(3) W3190 members in NE and KS have been collecting information on water use and water policies and local groundwater management areas. Activities have included data collection and visits with producers, policymakers, and staff.

Singletary (Nevada):

This objective will be accomplished as part of the participatory research and outreach activities, including an annual tribal summit featuring tribal water resource managers, agricultural producers and community leaders. The purpose of the summit is to exchange ideas, information, and solutions among tribal members while also sharing the results of project team research. During the reporting period the project team developed and implemented the second annual tribal summit to provide a structured venue for tribal leaders to share their own research and ideas concerning alternative water policy and management institutions and arrangements.

Colby (Arizona):

Model and empirically estimate costs and benefits associated with fallowing land to provide water for urban and environmental needs.

Develop innovative water trading mechanisms for the southwestern U.S.

Evaluate federal and state  pilot water leasing programs to accomplish specific public objectives.

Kahil, M. T., J. Albiac, A. Dinar, E. Calvo, E. Esteban, L. Avella, M. Garcia-Molla,  The Debate on Water Policies: Evidence from Drought in Spain, Water, 8(2), 34. doi:10.3390/w8020034, 2016.

Kahil, M. T., A Dinar, J. Albiac, Cooperative Water Management and Ecosystem Protection under Scarcity and Drought in Arid and Semiarid Regions. Water Resources & Economics,13:60-74, 2016.

Tellez-Foster, A. Dinar, and A. Rapoport. Comparing Alternative Modifications of Energy Subsidies: The Case of Groundwater Extraction. UCR SPP Working Paper Series, July 2016, WP# 16-02.
 
Tellez-Foster, A. Rapoport, and A. Dinar. Groundwater and Electricity Consumption un-der Alternative Subsidies: Evidence from Laboratory Experiments. UCR SPP Working Paper Series, July 2016, WP# 16-03.

Tellez-Foster, A. Rapoport, and A. Dinar. Alternative Policies to Manage Electricity Subsi-dies for Groundwater Extraction: A Field Study in Mexico. UCR SPP Working Paper Series, July 2016, WP# 16-05.

Grismer, M.E. 2015. Use of shallow groundwater for crop production. UC - ANR Drought Tip Publication 8521. June.

Grismer, M.E. and K.M. Bali. 2015. Use of saline drain water for crop productions. UC - ANR Drought Tip Publication 8554. October

Jones, S., A.M. Michelsen, E. Evenson and D. Blodgett. 2015. The National Water Availability and Use Science Program.  IMPACT. American Water Resources Association. Middleburg, VA. Vol. 17(6): 18-20.

Sheng, Z., A.M. Michelsen and Y. Liu. 2015. Comparing Long-term Water Resources Planning for Two Large Cities: Houston and Shanghai. IMPACT. American Water Resources Association. Middleburg, VA. 17:1. January. Invited.

Sun, G., A.M. Michelsen, Z. Sheng, A.F. Fang, Y. Shang and H. Zhang. 2015.  Featured Collection Introduction: Water for Megacities - Challenges and Solutions. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 51(3):585-588. DOI:10.1111/1752-1688.12317.  

Garnache, C. (2015). “Fish, Farmers, and Floods: Coordinating Institutions to Optimize the Provision of Ecosystem Services.” Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. 2(3):367-399.

Garnache, C., Lopez, M.C., Pearson, A.L., Richardson, R.B., and Zwickle, A. (2015). “Institutional Analysis, Participatory Mapping, and Water Assessment for Sustainable Community Development in Tanzania.” Report to the Center for Advanced Study of International Development, Michigan State University. International Strategic Partnership Funding.

Seedang, Saichon and Chutima Noinard. 2015. Estimating the Economic Value of Ecosystems Services for Supporting the Implementation of Payments for Environmental Services and Bio-carbon Financial Mechanisms in Thailand Watershed Pilot Sites.  Under Project "Integrated Community-based Forest and Catchment Management through an Ecosystem Service Approach ".  Technical Report (Final Report). November, 2015. 220 pages. (Supported by Global Environmental Facility (GEF), Thailand Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MONRE), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)).

Kovacs, K., M. Mancini. 2017. “Conjunctive water management to sustain agricultural economic returns and a shallow aquifer at the landscape level.”  Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, forthcoming.

Hurd, Brian. 2015. Concepts and Methods for Assessing Economic Impacts from Climate Change on Water Resources. In The Handbook of Water Economics, Ariel Dinar and Kurt Schwabe (eds.), Edward Elgar Publishers. DOI

Fernald, A., Guldan, S., Boykin, K., Cibils, A., Gonzales, M., Hurd, B. H., Lopez, S., Ochoa, C. G., Ortiz, M., Rivera, J., Rodriguez, S., and Steele, C. M. (2015). Linked hydrologic and social systems that support resilience of traditional irrigation communities, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 19, 293-307, 2015. doi:10.5194/hess-19-293-2015.

Benjamin Turner, Vincent Tidwell, Alexander Fernald, Jose Rivera, Sylvia Rodriguez, Steven Guldan, Carlos Ochoa, Brian Hurd, Kenneth Boykin, and Andres Cibils. 2016. “Modeling acequia irrigation systems using System Dynamics: model development, evaluation, and sensitivity analyses to investigate socio-economic and biophysical feedbacks,” Sustainability, 8(10), 1019; doi:10.3390/su8101019

Eiswerth, M.E., R. Epanchin-Niell, K. Rollins, M.H. Taylor. Economic Modeling and the Management of Exotic Annual Bromus Species: Accounting for Ecosystem Dynamics, Ecological Thresholds, and Spatial Interdependencies. Chapter 15 in: Exotic Brome-Grasses in Arid and Semi-arid Ecosystems of the Western U.S.: Causes, Consequences, and Management Implications. Edited by M.J. Germino, J.C. Chambers, and C.S. Brown. New York, NY: Springer Publishing. 2016. pp. 429-456.

Gitau, M.W. 2016. Long-term seasonality of rainfall in the Southwest Florida Gulf coastal zone. Climate Research. DOI 10.3354/cr01399.

Guilfoos, T., Khanna, N., & Peterson, J. M. (2016). Efficiency of Viable Groundwater Management Policies. Land Economics, 92(4), 618-640.

Miao, H., Fooks, J. R., Guilfoos, T., Messer, K. D., Pradhanang, S. M., Suter, J. F., Trandafir, S., and Uchida, E. (2016). The impact of information on behavior under an ambient-based policy for regulating nonpoint source pollution. Water Resources Research. 52(5): 3294-3308.

Booth, P. L., Guilfoos, T., & Uchida, E. (2016). Endowment Effects and Drinking Water Quality. Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 45(02), 338-366.

Kim, C. S., & Guilfoos, T. (2016). The Effect of Cost-share Programs on Ground Water Exploitation and Nonpoint-source Pollution under Endogenous Technical Change. Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 45(02), 394-417.

Boslett, A., Guilfoos, T., & Lang, C. (2016). Valuation of expectations: a hedonic study of shale gas development and New York’s Moratorium. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 77, 14-30.

Delgado M., Guilfoos T., Boslett A. (2016) The Cost of Hydraulic Fracturing: A Hedonic Analysis. Resource and Energy Economics, 46, 1-22.

Ziolkowska, J.R. and J.M. Peterson, Editors. Competition for Water Resources: Experiences and Management Approaches in the US and Europe. Elsevier. 2016. ISBN: 978-0-12-803237-4


Peterson, J.M. Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Commonalities and Differences in the US and Europe. In J. Ziolkowska and J. Peterson, eds. Competition for Water Resources: Experiences and Management Approaches in the US and Europe. Elsevier. 2016. 

Peterson, J.M. and N. Hendricks. “Economics of Water.” K. Conca and E. Weinthal, eds. Oxford Handbook of Water Politics and Policy. Oxford University Press. 2016 (forthcoming).


Walter, J. and J.M. Peterson. “Strategic R&D and the Innovation of Products: Understanding the Role of Time Preferences and Product Differentiation.” Economics of Innovation and New Technology. In press.


Caldas, M.M., J.S. Bergtold, J.M. Peterson, and D. Earnhart. “Land-use Choices:  The Case of Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) re-enrollment in Kansas, USA.” Journal of Land Use Science. In press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1747423X.2016.1215563

Kulcsar, L.J., J. Aistrup, T. Bulatewicz, J.M. Peterson, S.M. Welch, and D.R. Steward. “Water and Society: Interdisciplinary Education in Natural Resources.” Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education 158(August 2016): 120-131. http://ucowr.org/files/Journal/Issues/158/158_Kulcsar_et_al.pdf

Schaible, Glenn. D., Marcel P. Aillery.  2016.  Challenges for U.S. Irrigated Agriculture in the Face of Emerging Demands and Climate Change. Chapter 2.1.1 in Competition for Water Resources: Experiences and Management Approaches in the US and Europe, eds. J. Ziolkowska and J. Peterson, Elsevier Publishing (September 30, 2016), at: http://store.elsevier.com/Competition-for-Water-Resources/isbn-9780128032374/.

Schaible, Glenn D.  2016.  ERS Agricultural Normalized Price Estimates.  [ERS Data Product (posted by 9/30/16), a congressionally-mandated ERS obligation.

Wallander, S., M. Aillery, and G. Schaible. Long-Term Response to Water Scarcity in California, Amber Waves Statistic: Farm Practices & Management, USDA/ERS (November 02, 2015), 6 p.

Schaible, G. and M. Aillery. More Efficient Irrigation Methods are being Adopted on Farmland in the Western U.S., ERS Chart of Note, USDA/ERS (January 6, 2016). 

Sneeringer, Stacy.  Comparing Participation in Nutrient Trading by Livestock Operations to Crop Producers in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, Economic Research Report (ERR-216), Economic Research Service, USDA (September 2016): 71 p.

Marshall, Elizabeth, Marcel Aillery, Scott Malcolm, and Ryan Williams.  Climate Change, Water Scarcity, and Adaptation in the U.S. Fieldcrop Sector, Economic Research Report (ERR-201), Economic Research Service, USDA (November 2015): 110 p.

Blevins, S., K. Hansen, G. Paige, and A. MacKinnon. 2016. “The True Value of Flood Irrigation: What’s Seen as Wasteful Water Use Has Hidden Benefits.” Western Confluence: Natural Resource Science and Management in the West. UW Ruckelshaus Institute publication, Laramie, WY, pp. 38-40.

Hansen, K. 2016. “Meeting the Challenge of Water Scarcity in the Western U.S.” In Competition for Water Resources: Experiences and Management Approaches in the US and Europe (J. Ziolkowska. and J. Peterson, editors). Elsevier: Cambridge, MA.

Kim, C.S., R.M. Adams and D. Peck. 2016. “Multiyear Discrete Stochastic Programming with a Fuzzy Semi-Markov Process.” Applied Mathematics 7:482-495.

Yoder, Jonathan, Michael Brady, and Joseph Cook. 2016.  Water markets and storage: Substitutes or complements for drought risk mitigation? Water Economics and Policy 2(2):21 pp.

Hearne, R. and F. Fernando. 2016. “Strategies for Community and Industry Water Management in the Oil Producing Region of North Dakota” Water 2016, 8, 331; doi:10.3390/w8080331

Hearne, R. and T. Prato. 2016. “Institutional Evolution of Missouri River Management.”  Water Policy.  18 (3) 619-634.

Amir Mani, Frank T-C. Tsai, Krishna Paudel.  2016. Mixed integer linear fractional programming for conjunctive use of surface water and groundwater.  Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management 142(11): 10.1061/(ASCE)WR.1943-5452.0000676

Krishna Paudel, Mahesh Pandit, and Roger Hinson. 2016. Irrigation Water Sources and Irrigation Application Methods Used by U.S. Plant Nursery Producers.  Water Resources Research DOI: 10.1002/2015WR017619 

Atreya, A., W. Kriesel, and J. Mullen. "Valuing Open Space in a Marshland Environment:  Development Alternatives for Coastal Georgia"  Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics (in press).

Edwards, E.C. 2016. “What Lies Beneath? Aquifer Heterogeneity and the Economics of Groundwater Management.” Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 3 no. 2, pp. 453-91.

Cobourn, K.M., L. Elbakidze, and S. Ghosh. 2016. “Conjunctive Water Management in Hydraulically Connected Regions in the Western U.S.” solicited chapter for inclusion in Competition for Water Resources: Experiences and Management Approaches in the U.S. and Europe, eds. J. Ziolkowska and J. Peterson

Speir, S. Pittman and D. Tomberlin. 2015. “Uncertainty, Irreversibility and the Optimal Timing of Large-Scale Ecosystem Restoration.” Frontiers in Marine Science 2: 101. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2015.00101.

Mieno, T. and Brozović, N., 2016, Price elasticity of groundwater demand: Attenuation and amplification bias due to incomplete information, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, in press.

Kuwayama, Y. and Brozović, N., 2016, Optimal management of environmental externalities with time lags and uncertainty, Environmental and Resource Economics, in press.

O’Keeffe, J., Buytaert, W., Mijic, A., Brozović, N., and Sinha, R., 2016, The use of semi-structured interviews for the characterisation of farmer irrigation practices, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, v. 20, 1911-1924, DOI: 10.5194/hess-20-1911-2016.

Sharma, S. and Schoengold, K., 2016, Do Hypothetical Choices Indicate True Risk Preferences? A comparison of stated and revealed data on decisions over risky outcomes, Cornhusker Economics. Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Speir, C., Han, J. and Brozović, N., 2016, Spatial dynamic optimization of groundwater use with ecological standards for instream flow, Water Economics and Policy, DOI: 10.1142/S2382624X16500132.

Young, R.K. and Brozović, N., 2016, Innovations in groundwater management: Smart markets for transferable groundwater extraction rights, Technology and Innovation, v. 17, 219-226, DOI: 10.3727/194982416X14520374943220.

Kuwayama, Y., Young. R.K., and Brozović, N., 2016, Groundwater scarcity: Management approaches and recent innovations, in J. Ziolkowska and J. Peterson (eds.), Competition for Water Resources: Experiences and Management Approaches in the U.S. and Europe, in press, Elsevier.

Wheeler, S., Schoengold, K. and Bjornlund, H., 2016, Lessons to be Learned from Groundwater Trading in Australia and the United States in A. Jakeman et al. (eds.), Integrated Groundwater Management, in press, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-23576-9_20.

Montginoul, M., Rinaudo, J.D., Brozović, N., and Donoso, G., 2016, Controlling groundwater exploitation through economic instruments: Current practices, challenges and innovative approaches, in A. Jakeman et al. (eds.), Integrated Groundwater Management, in press, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-23576-9_22.

Awada, T., Brozović, N., and Koelsch, R., 2016, Implications of Climate Change on Nebraska’s Agriculture, Food and Water, in The Implications of Climate Change for Nebraska: Summary Report of Sector-Based Roundtable Discussions, Wilhite, D., and Morrow, K., School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, 55p.

Sun, S., J.P. Sesmero, and K. Schoengold (2016) “The Role of Common Pool Problems in Irrigation Inefficiency: A Case Study in Groundwater Pumping in Mexico” Agricultural Economics, 47(1): 117-127, available online 7-JAN-2016, DOI: 10.1111/agec.12214.

Brozović, N., 2015, What policy instruments help to manage agricultural groundwater use sustainably? in Drying Wells, Rising Stakes: Towards Sustainable Agricultural Groundwater Use, OECD Studies on Water, OECD Publishing, Paris, http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/9789264238701-en.

Foster, T., Brozović, N., and Butler, A.P., 2015, Why well yield matters for managing agricultural drought risk, Weather and Climate Extremes, DOI: 10.1016/j.wace.2015.07.003.

Foster, T., Brozović, N., and Butler, A.P., 2015, Analysis of the impacts of well yield and groundwater depth on irrigated agriculture, Journal of Hydrology, v. 523, 86-96, DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2015.01.032.

Singletary, L., Sterle, K.a, & Simpson, K. a (2016). Assessing the Climate Resiliency and Adaptive Capacity of the Truckee-Carson River System: Results of a Survey of Local Organizations. UNCE Special Publication [SP-16-03]. Reno, NV: University of Nevada, Reno - Cooperative Extension.

Bonnie Colby, “Water Trading Innovations: Reducing Agricultural Consumptive Use to Improve Adaptation to Scarcity,” chapter in Competition for Water Resources: Experiences and Management Approaches in the US and Europe, edited by Jadwiga Ziolkowska and Jeffrey Peterson, November, 2016

Dari Duval and Bonnie Colby, “Colorado River Flows and the Fisheries Economy of the Upper Gulf of California”, Ecological Engineering, 2016

Ashley Kerna, Bonnie Colby, and Francisco Zamora, Valuing Environmental Flows in Mexico’s Colorado River Delta, Water Economics and Policy, in press.

Andrew Clarke, Bonnie Colby and Gary Thompson, Seasonal Elasticities of Household Water Demand: Application of the Stone-Geary Model Under an Increasing Block Rate Structure, Land Economics, forthcoming, 2017.

Bonnie Colby, Water Linkages beyond the Farm Gate: Implications for Agriculture, Federal Reserve Bank Economic Review, November, 2016.

Bonnie Colby, Lower Rio Grande Groundwater Banking White Paper, Report to New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission, November, 2015

Using Surveys to Inform Design and Implementation of System Conservation Programs, Dr. Bonnie G. Colby, Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Arizona January, 2016 (approx. 130 pages) 

Developing System Conservation Programs: A Guide For The Bureau Of Reclamation And Partner Organizations, January, 2016 (approx. 120 pages)