Carmen Rupérez-Moreno

Carmen Rupérez-Moreno

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Academic Career Length

12Years (2015-Present)

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12 May 2017 in Water
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CRCarmen Rupérez-Moreno
Carmen Rupérez-Moreno
JULIO PEREZ SANCHEZJULIO PEREZ SANCHEZ
JULIO PEREZ SANCHEZ
Javier Senent-AparicioJavier Senent-Aparicio
Javier Senent-Aparicio
PFPilar Flores-Asenjo
Pilar Flores-Asenjo
CPCarmen Paz-Aparicio
Carmen Paz-Aparicio
Droughts and climate change in regions with profitable irrigated agriculture will impact groundwater resources with associated direct and indirect impacts. In the integrated water resource management (IWRM), managed aquifer recharge (MAR) offers efficient solutions to protect, conserve, and ensure survival of aquifers and associated ecosystems, as the Water Framework Directive requires. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the socio-economic feasibility of the MAR system in the overexploited Boquerón aquifer in Hellín (Albacete, Spain) under climate change and varying irrigation demand conditions. To assess, in monetary terms, the profitability of the MAR system, a cost-benefit analysis (CBA) has been carried out. The results for the period 2020–2050 showed that the most favourable situations would be scenarios involving artificial recharge, in which future irrigation demand remains at the present level or falls below 10% of the current irrigation surface, as these scenarios generated an internal rate of return of between 53% and 57%. Additionally, the regeneration of the habitat will take between 5 and 9 years. Thus, the IWRM with artificial recharge will guarantee the sustainability of irrigation of the agricultural lands of Hellín and will achieve water balance even in severe climate change conditions.

1 November 2015 in Science of The Total Environment
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CRCarmen Rupérez-Moreno
Carmen Rupérez-Moreno
JULIO PEREZ SANCHEZJULIO PEREZ SANCHEZ
JULIO PEREZ SANCHEZ
Javier Senent-AparicioJavier Senent-Aparicio
Javier Senent-Aparicio
PFPilar Flores-Asenjo
Pilar Flores-Asenjo