| Autor: | Richard D. Gibson, Paul N. Wilson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
| Předmět: |
Sustainable development
Water delivery Irrigation business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Geography Planning and Development Agricultural economics Irrigation district Agriculture Management of Technology and Innovation Debt Sustainability Economics Drainage Water resource management business Water Science and Technology Food Science media_common |
| Zdroj: | Irrigation and Drainage Systems. 14:121-138 |
| ISSN: | 0168-6291 |
| DOI: | 10.1023/a:1006249822234 |
| Popis: | The economic performance of a Central Arizona Projectirrigation district is determined by the economiccondition of the growers the district serves and theunderlying financial structure of the district. Inthe case of the Maricopa-Stanfield Irrigation andDrainage District, adverse economic conditions in theagricultural sector and a high debt obligationrelative to water sales called into question thefinancial sustainability of the district. Districtmanagement took positive steps, like the ManagementImprovement Program (MIP) and departmentrestructuring, to improve the economic performance ofthe water delivery system. These actions relied onthe shared understanding of the waterinterdependencies between agricultural and urban userswhich was obtained through the Diagnostic Analysis ofthe MIP. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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