Declining agricultural production in rapidly urbanizing semi-arid regions: policy tradeoffs and sustainability indicators

In rapidly urbanizing semi-arid regions, increasing amounts of historically irrigated cropland lies permanently fallowed due to water court policies as agricultural water rights are voluntarily being sold to growing cities. This study develops an integrative framework for assessing the effects of po...

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Published in:	Environmental Research Letters
Main Authors:	André Q Dozier, Mazdak Arabi, Benjamin C Wostoupal, Christopher G Goemans, Yao Zhang, Keith Paustian
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	IOP Publishing 2017-01-01
Subjects:	agriculture urban buy and dry water rights partial equilibrium modeling sustainability
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aa7287