Title: Optimisation of water pricing in the Greek agricultural sector

Authors: Eleni Zafeiriou

Addresses: Department of Rural Development, Democritus University of Thrace, Orestiada 682 00, Greece

Abstract: The agricultural sector is a dominant one in the Greek economy and thus attracts the scientific interest. Water is significant for a cultivation's productivity and consequently for the agricultural income. Water pricing as a result has become a subject of extended study. The present study refers to the Greek agricultural economy and suggests a macroeconomic model, through which the optimisation of water pricing is surveyed as the sole policy instrument tool implemented.

Keywords: water pricing; optimisation; agricultural economy; agriculture; farming; Greece; macroeconomic models.

DOI: 10.1504/IJGE.2013.058553

International Journal of Green Economics, 2013 Vol.7 No.4, pp.348 - 357

Published online: 13 Sep 2014 *

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