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

建议编号：0617951机构：新墨西哥大学国家科学基金会项目：经济学首席研究员：拉希姆，内姆标题：博士论文：新墨西哥州水杉灌溉的公益价值研究无处不在的水资源具有很高的价值。然而，因为它们往往拥有共同财产的要素，所以很难评估水权的价值，特别是在水权属于集体所有的社区。这项博士论文研究将使用一种新的、跨学科的方法来调查和量化新墨西哥州北部传统农村灌溉系统(Acquias)的公益价值方面。调查将实施条件估值(CV)调查、公用池资源(CPR)实验和生物评估方法。虽然这些方法已经确立，但这项研究首次将这三种方法结合起来，以确定木杉灌溉的公益贡献。这项研究结合了行为经济学、环境经济学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。PIS将与新墨西哥州Acequia Association合作，获得农村灌溉者。为了获得水的价值，PI将在全州范围内进行CV调查，以确定新墨西哥人是否愿意为保留在Aequia所有者手中和Aequia系统中的水权付费。有了这种支付意愿，这项研究将调查城市和农村居民对水价的反应是否不同。这项研究将提供对文化、经济和生物因素的洞察，这些因素导致人们对水的依恋，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、农村倡导、水立法和农村教育计划的因素。关于水权的冲突是普遍存在的；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。随着西部的城市化，许多团体和社区发现自己卷入了关于水资源分配的谈判。这样做的结果将有助于这一对话，作为量化农村灌溉的福利贡献的第一步。文化价值评估和对传统资源使用的贡献的研究是强大的、不断增长的领域，这项研究将为新墨西哥州的这些领域做出贡献。这笔资金还将支持一名来自美国某个地区的研究生的研究努力，该地区获得的联邦政府研究拨款相对较少，因此它将有助于将代表性不足的地区纳入NSF资助的研究。

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.