Three Essays on Energy Inputs, Technology, and Conservation Policy in Irrigated Agricultural Product...

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" Three Essays on Energy Inputs, Technology, and Conservation Policy in Irrigated Agricultural Production "
Hrozencik, R. Aaron Suter, Jordan F.

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1105279
Doc. No	:	TLpq2305832550
Main Entry	:	Hrozencik, R. Aaron
	:	Suter, Jordan F.
Title & Author	:	Three Essays on Energy Inputs, Technology, and Conservation Policy in Irrigated Agricultural Production\ Hrozencik, R. AaronSuter, Jordan F.
College	:	Colorado State University
Date	:	2019
student score	:	2019
Degree	:	Ph.D.
Page No	:	140
Abstract	:	This dissertation explores the role of energy inputs, irrigation technology, and conservation policy in irrigated agricultural production. In the first chapter, I utilize empirical and simulation modeling to understand the impact of non-linear energy pricing on groundwater use decisions in the Republican River Basin of Colorado. The second chapter empirically investigates how peer effects and resource availability influence a producer's choice to adopt a resource-conserving irrigation technology using data from the Trifa Plain of Morocco. The third chapter develops a hydroeconomic model which pairs groundwater demand with a physical model of resource dynamics to quantify how a groundwater conservation policy implemented within a subsection of the Republican River Basin of Colorado creates resource and input market spillovers.
Subject	:	Agricultural economics
	:	Economics
	:	Environmental economics