The Effects of Volumetric Pricing Policy on Farmers’ Water Management Institutions and Their Water Use : The Case of Water User Organization in an Irrigation System in Hubei, China

We use original water user group (WUG) data from a reservoir irrigation system in China to examine the effect of water pricing policies on farmers’ water saving behaviors. The introduction of volumetric water pricing at the group level, to replace area-based pricing, induces institutional change to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kajisa, Kei, Dong, Bin
Format: Journal Article
Published: Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2018
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30135