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dc.contributor.authorBof, Pedro Henriquept_BR
dc.contributor.authorMarques, Guilherme Fernandespt_BR
dc.contributor.authorTilmant, Amaurypt_BR
dc.contributor.authorDalcin, Ana Paulapt_BR
dc.contributor.authorOlivares, Marcelopt_BR
dc.date.accessioned2021-04-15T04:23:05Zpt_BR
dc.date.issued2021pt_BR
dc.identifier.issn2073-4441pt_BR
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10183/219963pt_BR
dc.description.abstractGiven its potentialities and characteristics, energy generation, food production, and water availability have a strong interdependency and correlation. Water is needed to produce energy and food, while energy is required to produce water and food. This nexus brings several challenges when scarce water resources must be allocated among competing uses, often in the form of unexpected tradeoffs. Addressing those challenges requires knowledge about the water–food–energy nexus and the associated tradeoffs to support water allocation and management decisions. Those tradeoffs are still not properly understood in the uncertain and stochastic context of water availability. When not properly accounted for, the results are conflicts, loss of investments, environmental impacts, and limited effectiveness of sectoral policies, all of which undermine a country’s development model relying on water and energy security. This paper addresses the competitive uses of recent irrigated agriculture expansion and existing hydropower production in a Brazilian watershed with water conflicts, assessing the economic tradeoffs and water values between energy and irrigated agricultural production under uncertainty. An explicitly stochastic hydro-economic model is used to determine water’s economic value and its variation in space and time. Results indicate that the agricultural benefits outweigh the potential energy losses, and the best course of action should explore an economically compensated reallocation strategy, upon negotiation among users, rather than imposing water supply cutbacks to the agriculture sector.en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfpt_BR
dc.language.isoengpt_BR
dc.relation.ispartofWater. Basel. Vol. 13, n. 6 (Mar. 2021), 25 p.pt_BR
dc.rightsOpen Accessen
dc.subjectWater resources economicen
dc.subjectRecursos hídricospt_BR
dc.subjectMarginal value of wateren
dc.subjectProdução de alimentospt_BR
dc.subjectGeração de energiapt_BR
dc.subjectEconomic tradeoffsen
dc.subjectIrrigaçãopt_BR
dc.titleWater-food-energy nexus tradeoffs in the São Marcos river basinpt_BR
dc.typeArtigo de periódicopt_BR
dc.identifier.nrb001124108pt_BR
dc.type.originEstrangeiropt_BR


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