David Zilberman – Agricultural and Resource Economics
David Zilberman focuses on looking at the adoption of irrigation technology, how climate change increases variability of water supply, and the value of weather and irrigation information.
His projects include:
1) Adoption of drip irrigation technology in California. Showing that it gradually moved from high value to low value crops from areas with a low water holding capacity to high water holding capacity. Droughts and high water prices enhanced diffusion. Public-private collaboration in technology development enabled expanding the uses and value of the technology.
2) Climate Change-water storage and conservation. Identifying conditions when water conservation and storage complement each other, and other situations when they are substitutes.
3) The costs and benefits of the use of California’s irrigation management information system-CIMIS.
School: Letters and Science
Position Opportunities: GSR
Contact Information: zilber11@berkeley.edu
Point Person: David Zilberman
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