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Record W2380641781 · doi:10.1142/s2382624x16500144

Improving Allocative Efficiency of Scarce Water in Southern Alberta

2016· article· en· W2380641781 on OpenAlexaffabout
Md Kamar Ali

Bibliographic record

VenueWater Economics and Policy · 2016
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicWater resources management and optimization
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Lethbridge
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAllocative efficiencyIrrigationCroppingWater resource managementScope (computer science)Water useWater resourcesEconomicsAgricultural economicsEnvironmental scienceNatural resource economicsDeficit irrigationBusinessIrrigation managementAgricultureGeographyComputer scienceMicroeconomics

Abstract

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Using a positive mathematical programming (PMP) model with improved ‘wide-scope’ calibration, this study demonstrates how allocative efficiency of scarce water could be improved in the Bow- and Oldman River Sub Basins (BRSB and ORSB) of Southern Alberta, where 12 irrigation districts, two cities and three major industrial/commercial users withdraw bulk of the surface water for irrigation, municipal, industrial and commercial needs. Earlier studies ironically neglected the larger ORSB even though it is subject to the same water licensing and regulation policies as the BRSB. The inclusion of nine irrigation districts and non-irrigation users of ORSB enables this model to estimate allocative efficiency gains in a more comprehensive manner than before. Results indicate that ORSB has a relatively less elastic water demand curve primarily due to its more reliance on irrigation and less water saving/supply options. It is also less responsive to allocations with alternative policies as reflected in net returns, land use and cropping pattern changes due to its less elastic water demand.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.332
Threshold uncertainty score0.667

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.004
GPT teacher head0.165
Teacher spread0.161 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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