IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ags/pugtwp/332758.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Combining the best of two worlds - An integrative water modelling approach

Author

Listed:
  • Luckmann, Jonas
  • Reznik, Ami
  • Feinerman, Eli
  • Finkelshtain, Israel
  • Grethe, Harald
  • Kan, Iddo

Abstract

This paper presents a generic and flexible modelling approach combining a water focused computable general equilibrium model (STAGE_W) with a non-linear mathematical programming model for the water sector (MYWAS). The advantage of this setup is that it allows to consider economy-wide effects of changes in the water sector, while considering topography and infrastructural limitations of water supply which affect regional provision costs. Further our approach considers a flexible set of different water qualities. The two models are linked by exchanging changes of result variable vectors in an iterative process. We apply our approach to study the case of the water-energy-food nexus in Israel. A large share of the potable water consumption in Israel stems from desalination and wastewater recycling. Although both activities are considered as viable means to reduce pressure on the already overused aquifers, they are highly energy intensive and thus expansive. Recently, three large gas fields have been discovered in the Mediterranean Sea close to the Israeli coast. Their exploitation is expected to considerably decrease domestic energy prices. This in turn will make the production of energy-intensive commodities including desalinated and recycled water cheaper. The economy wide effects of this shock are analyzed in this paper.

Suggested Citation

  • Luckmann, Jonas & Reznik, Ami & Feinerman, Eli & Finkelshtain, Israel & Grethe, Harald & Kan, Iddo, 2016. "Combining the best of two worlds - An integrative water modelling approach," Conference papers 332758, Purdue University, Center for Global Trade Analysis, Global Trade Analysis Project.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:pugtwp:332758
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/332758/files/9808.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Sherman Robinson & Arthur Gueneau, 2013. "An Integrated Modeling Framework for Analyzing Water-Economy Links," EcoMod2013 5499, EcoMod.
    2. Zvi Baum & Ruslana Rachel Palatnik & Iddo Kan & Mickey Rapaport-Rom, 2016. "Economic Impacts of Water Scarcity Under Diverse Water Salinities," Water Economics and Policy (WEP), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 2(01), pages 1-22, March.
    3. Siddig, Khalid & Grethe, Harald, 2014. "No more gas from Egypt? Modeling offshore discoveries and import uncertainty of natural gas in Israel," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 136(C), pages 312-324.
    4. Reznik, Ami & Huber-Lee, Annette & Joyce, Brian & Feinerman, Eli & Finkelshtain, Israel & Kan, Iddo & Fisher, Franklin, 2014. "Understanding the Economics of Water in Israel: the Multi-Year Water Allocation System Model," Discussion Papers 290034, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Agricultural Economics and Management.
    5. Palatnik, Ruslana Rachel & Baum, Zvi & Kan, Iddo & Rapaport-Rom, Mickey, 2016. "Economic Impacts of Water Scarcity under Diverse Water Salinities," Conference papers 330173, Purdue University, Center for Global Trade Analysis, Global Trade Analysis Project.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Teotónio, Carla & Rodríguez, Miguel & Roebeling, Peter & Fortes, Patrícia, 2020. "Water competition through the ‘water-energy’ nexus: Assessing the economic impacts of climate change in a Mediterranean context," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 85(C).
    2. Yerushalmi, Erez, 2018. "Using Water Allocation in Israel as a Proxy for Imputing the Value of Agricultural Amenities," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 149(C), pages 12-20.
    3. Dario Aversa & Nino Adamashvili & Mariantonietta Fiore & Alessia Spada, 2022. "Scoping Review (SR) via Text Data Mining on Water Scarcity and Climate Change," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(1), pages 1-13, December.
    4. Ortuzar, Iban & Serrano, Ana & Xabadia, Àngels, 2023. "Macroeconomic impacts of water allocation under droughts. Accounting for global supply chains in a multiregional context," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 211(C).
    5. Hala Abu-Kalla & Ruslana Rachel Palatnik & Ofira Ayalon & Mordechai Shechter, 2020. "Hoard or Exploit? Intergenerational Allocation of Exhaustible Natural Resources," Energies, MDPI, vol. 13(24), pages 1-20, December.
    6. Griffiths, Steven, 2017. "A review and assessment of energy policy in the Middle East and North Africa region," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 102(C), pages 249-269.
    7. Li, Wei & Lu, Can, 2019. "The multiple effectiveness of state natural gas consumption constraint policies for achieving sustainable development targets in China," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 235(C), pages 685-698.
    8. Ruble, Isabella, 2017. "European Union energy supply security: The benefits of natural gas imports from the Eastern Mediterranean," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 105(C), pages 341-353.
    9. Siddig, Khalid & Grethe, Harald & Abdelwahab, Noura, 2016. "The natural gas sector in post-revolution Egypt," Journal of Policy Modeling, Elsevier, vol. 38(5), pages 941-953.
    10. Jaume Freire-González & Christopher A. Decker & Jim W. Hall, 2017. "A Scenario-Based Framework for Assessing the Economic Impacts of Potential Droughts," Water Economics and Policy (WEP), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 3(04), pages 1-27, October.
    11. Na Li & Xiaojun Wang & Minjun Shi & Hong Yang, 2015. "Economic Impacts of Total Water Use Control in the Heihe River Basin in Northwestern China—An Integrated CGE-BEM Modeling Approach," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 7(3), pages 1-19, March.
    12. Noel, Lance & Sovacool, Benjamin K., 2016. "Why Did Better Place Fail?: Range anxiety, interpretive flexibility, and electric vehicle promotion in Denmark and Israel," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 94(C), pages 377-386.
    13. Girma T. Chala & Abd Rashid Abd Aziz & Ftwi Y. Hagos, 2018. "Natural Gas Engine Technologies: Challenges and Energy Sustainability Issue," Energies, MDPI, vol. 11(11), pages 1-44, October.
    14. Athanasios Dagoumas & Floros Flouros, 2017. "Energy Policy Formulation in Israel Following its Recent Gas Discoveries," International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy, Econjournals, vol. 7(1), pages 19-30.
    15. Al-Riffai, Perrihan & Breisinger, Clemens & Mondal, Md. Hossain Alam & Ringler, Claudia & Wiebelt, Manfred & Zhu, Tingju, 2017. "Linking the economics of water, energy, and food: A nexus modeling approach," MENA working papers 4, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
    16. Lu, Weiwei & Su, Meirong & Fath, Brian D. & Zhang, Mingqi & Hao, Yan, 2016. "A systematic method of evaluation of the Chinese natural gas supply security," Applied Energy, Elsevier, vol. 165(C), pages 858-867.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:pugtwp:332758. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/gtpurus.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.