Exploring the impacts of the inequality of water permit allocation and farmers' behaviors on the performance of an agricultural water market

doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126303

	Exploring the impacts of the inequality of water permit allocation and farmers' behaviors on the performance of an agricultural water market
	Du, Erhu 1; Cai, Ximing 2; Wu, Feng 3; Foster, Timothy 4; Zheng, Chunmiao 1
刊名	JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY
	2021-08-01
卷号	599 页码:16
关键词	Water permit allocation Gini coefficient Agent-based model Farmers' behaviors Agricultural water market
ISSN号	0022-1694
DOI	10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126303
通讯作者	Zheng, Chunmiao(zhengcm@sustech.edu.cn)
英文摘要	Water markets are considered as effective mechanisms to support efficient use of limited water resources and to increase crop production in agricultural systems. This study presents an agent-based modeling (ABM) framework to explore the performance of an agricultural water market under the joint influence of water permit allocation and farmers' behaviors. The ABM employs a power law function to simulate water permit distribution among farmers for any given level of inequality measured by the Gini coefficient. Farmers' irrigation behavior (i.e., sensitivity to soil dryness) and bidding behaviors (i.e., degree of rent seeking and learning rate coefficient) are explicitly incorporated into the ABM to represent farmers' decision-making in a water market based on double auction. Through a set of scenario analyses in a study area in Texas, we find that the water market performance to increase basin-level crop production is constrained by a joint effect of, especially the complex and non-linear interplay between the inequality of water permit allocation, farmers' behaviors, and hydrological conditions. The potential market performance is higher when water permits are more unequally distributed. The relative market performance is higher when the inequality of water allocation is at a moderate level. The modeling results can advance our understanding of the key contributing factors in market transactions, and provide policy implications to assess the comparative advantage between institutional development and farmers' behavioral change for improving market performance. This study also provides model implications for future research to draw more robust conclusions about market benefits in the real world.
资助项目	National Natural Science Foundation of China[51909118] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41861124003] ; U.S. Department of Agriculture
WOS关键词	TRANSACTION COSTS ; UNITED-STATES ; RIVER-BASIN ; RIO-GRANDE ; GINI INDEX ; MODEL ; IRRIGATION ; MANAGEMENT ; AUSTRALIA ; EFFICIENCY
WOS研究方向	Engineering ; Geology ; Water Resources
语种	英语
出版者	ELSEVIER
WOS记录号	WOS:000673486000029
资助机构	National Natural Science Foundation of China ; U.S. Department of Agriculture
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.igsnrr.ac.cn/handle/311030/164751]
专题	中国科学院地理科学与资源研究所
通讯作者	Zheng, Chunmiao
作者单位	1.Southern Univ Sci & Technol, Sch Environm Sci & Engn, State Environm Protect Key Lab Integrated Surface, Shenzhen, Peoples R China 2.Univ Illinois, Dept Civil & Environm Engn, Urbana, IL USA 3.Chinese Acad Sci, Ctr Chinese Agr Policy, Inst Geog Sci & Nat Resources Res, Beijing, Peoples R China 4.Univ Manchester, Dept Mech Aerosp & Civil Engn, Manchester, Lancs, England
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Du, Erhu,Cai, Ximing,Wu, Feng,et al. Exploring the impacts of the inequality of water permit allocation and farmers' behaviors on the performance of an agricultural water market[J]. JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY,2021,599:16.
APA	Du, Erhu,Cai, Ximing,Wu, Feng,Foster, Timothy,&Zheng, Chunmiao.(2021).Exploring the impacts of the inequality of water permit allocation and farmers' behaviors on the performance of an agricultural water market.JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY,599,16.
MLA	Du, Erhu,et al."Exploring the impacts of the inequality of water permit allocation and farmers' behaviors on the performance of an agricultural water market".JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY 599(2021):16.