TY - JOUR
T1 - Social welfare losses from groundwater over-extraction for small-scale agriculture in Sri Lanka
T2 - Environmental concern for land use
AU - Athukorala, Wasantha
AU - Wilson, Clevo
AU - Managi, Shunsuke
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Department of Forest Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2017/12
Y1 - 2017/12
N2 - Quantity depletion and quality deterioration issues arising from the extraction of groundwater have been discussed in previous studies. However, the literature reveals no systematic analysis of the possible social welfare losses due to the cost of both quantity depletion and quality deterioration. This paper therefore investigates the long run welfare cost of using groundwater for agriculture by including both quantity depletion and quality deterioration costs simultaneously. This is achieved through an empirical study of onion farmers in Sri Lanka who use groundwater for their cultivation. A significant social welfare loss is found in terms of both groundwater quantity and quality deterioration costs and which is likely to increase over the long run. This is shown to have important long run implications for land use management.
AB - Quantity depletion and quality deterioration issues arising from the extraction of groundwater have been discussed in previous studies. However, the literature reveals no systematic analysis of the possible social welfare losses due to the cost of both quantity depletion and quality deterioration. This paper therefore investigates the long run welfare cost of using groundwater for agriculture by including both quantity depletion and quality deterioration costs simultaneously. This is achieved through an empirical study of onion farmers in Sri Lanka who use groundwater for their cultivation. A significant social welfare loss is found in terms of both groundwater quantity and quality deterioration costs and which is likely to increase over the long run. This is shown to have important long run implications for land use management.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jfe.2017.04.002
DO - 10.1016/j.jfe.2017.04.002
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85019922167
VL - 29
SP - 47
EP - 55
JO - Journal of Forest Economics
JF - Journal of Forest Economics
SN - 1104-6899
ER -