Doctoral Dissertation: Public Welfare Values of Acequia Irrigation in New Mexico

博士论文：新墨西哥州 Acequia 灌溉的公共福利价值

• 批准号: 0617951
• 负责人: Nejem Raheem
• 金额: $ 1.08万
• 依托单位: University of New Mexico
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-08-15 至 2008-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0617951&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Public; Welfare; Values

Proposal No: 0617951 Institution: University of New Mexico NSF Program: ECONOMICS Principal Investigator: Raheem, Nejem Title: Doctoral Dissertation: Public Welfare Values of Acequia Irrigation in New Mexico ABSTRACTWater resources everywhere are of great value. Yet because they tend possess elements of common property, it is very hard to value the rights to water rights, especially in communities where water rights are communally owned. This doctoral dissertation research will use a novel, interdisciplinary approach to investigate and quantify aspects of public welfare values of traditional rural irrigation systems (acequias) in northern New Mexico. The investigation will implement a Contingent Valuation (CV) survey, Common Pool Resource (CPR) experiments, and biological assessment methods. While these methods are well established, this research is the first to combine all three to ascertain public welfare contributions of acequia irrigation. The research combines work from behavioral, environmental, and cultural economics as well as from conservation biology. The use of CV for valuing traditional agricultural practices is unusual. The PIs will partner with the New Mexico Acequia Association to access rural irrigators. To obtain the value of water, the PI will conduct a statewide CV survey to ascertain New Mexicans willingness to pay for water rights to remain in the hands of acequia owners and in acequia systems. With this willingness to pay, the research will investigate whether urban and rural residents respond differently to water prices. The research will provide insights into the cultural, economic, and biological factors that contribute to the attachment of people to acequias water, hence contribute to the public welfare of New Mexico. This result of this research will also illuminate the factors that affect the transfer of water rights, rural advocacy, water legislation, and rural education programs in New Mexico. Conflicts over water rights are universal; a better understanding of the contributions of established uses might help in crafting policies to reduce conflicts over water rights. As the west urbanizes, many groups and communities find themselves involved in negotiations about water allocation. The result of this will contribute to that dialogue as a first step in quantifying the welfare contributions of rural irrigation. Cultural valuation and research into the contributions of traditional resource use are strong and growing fields, and this research will contribute to those fields here in New Mexico. This funding will also support the research effort of a graduate student from a part of the US that receives relatively less of federal government research grants, thus it will contribute to the inclusion of under represented regions in NSF funded research.

提案编号：0617951 机构：新墨西哥大学 NSF 项目：经济学 首席研究员：Raheem, Nejem 标题：博士论文：新墨西哥州 Acequia 灌溉的公共福利价值 摘要 各地的水资源都具有巨大的价值。 然而，由于他们往往拥有公共财产的要素，因此很难评估水权的价值，特别是在水权为公共所有的社区。 本博士论文研究将采用一种新颖的跨学科方法来调查和量化新墨西哥州北部传统农村灌溉系统（acequias）的公共福利价值。调查将实施条件估价（CV）调查、公共池资源（CPR）实验和生物评估方法。虽然这些方法已经很成熟，但本研究首次将这三种方法结合起来，以确定 acequia 灌溉的公共福利贡献。该研究结合了行为、环境和文化经济学以及保护生物学的工作。使用简历来评估传统农业实践是不寻常的。 PI 将与新墨西哥州 Acequia 协会合作，为农村灌溉者提供服务。 为了获得水的价值，PI 将进行全州范围的 CV 调查，以确定新墨西哥人是否愿意为水权付费，以保留在 acequia 所有者和 acequia 系统中。 有了这种支付意愿，该研究将调查城乡居民对水价的反应是否不同。 该研究将深入了解导致人们对 acequias 水产生依恋的文化、经济和生物因素，从而为新墨西哥州的公共福利做出贡献。这项研究的结果还将阐明影响新墨西哥州水权转让、农村宣传、水立法和农村教育计划的因素。 水权冲突普遍存在；更好地了解既定用途的贡献可能有助于制定减少水权冲突的政策。 随着西部城市化，许多团体和社区发现自己参与了有关水分配的谈判。其结果将有助于对话，作为量化农村灌溉福利贡献的第一步。文化评估和对传统资源利用贡献的研究是强大且不断发展的领域，这项研究将为新墨西哥州的这些领域做出贡献。 这笔资金还将支持来自美国部分地区的研究生的研究工作，这些地区获得的联邦政府研究补助金相对较少，因此它将有助于将代表性不足的地区纳入 NSF 资助的研究中。