Water, Environmental and Agricultural Resources Economics (WEARE)

Associate Professor

Biography

Born in Utrera, Seville (1980), I obtained my PhD/Doctorate in Economy and Sustainability of Water at the University of Pablo de Olavide, Seville (Spain) and my Degree in Economics at the University of Seville (Spain).
Nowadays, I am a Lecturer in the Department of Applied Economics III at the University of Seville (Spain).

Research Interests

My research focuses on environmental economics as a whole, with an emphasis in the following main research lines:

• Economic analysis of water uses.
• Cost recovery of water services.
• Cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis.
• Sustainable water management
• Economic, social and policy issues in agricultural sector.
• Circular economy.

Maria del Mar’s current research projects include:

• FruitCREWS – COST ACTION CA21142. Fruit Crop REsponses to Water deficit and decision support Systems applications. https://cost-fruitcrews.eu/

Maria del Mar’s participation in previous research projects includes:

• P20-00837- Percepción y gestión de los bancos de agua como instrumento de mejora en la eficiencia del uso de los recursos hídricos en Andalucía (AQUAEBANK). Consejería de Economía, Conocimiento, Empresas y Universidad de la Junta de Andalucía. PAIDI 2020.
• National Project (UCO-FEDER 18 REF.126831 MOD.B). SEKECO: Evaluación de estrategias de adaptación a la sequía bajo el actual escenario de cambio climático. (2020-2021).
• National Project. ROC: Performance of water supply services and multi-objective asset management: contribution of the cost-benefit analysis, (2019). IRSTEA (National Research Institute of Science and Technology for Environment and Agriculture). Bordeaux (France).
• National Project. Cost-Benefit Analysis of Water Management Measures at Enza River Basin (Italy), (2019). University of Bologna (Italy).
• National Project (AGL2014-53417-R). EVAMODRE: Evaluation of irrigation modernization in the context of climate change: Assessing of current and future scenarios of Southern Spain basins, (2015-2018). University of Cordoba (Spain).
• European Project. SYWAG: System of Water Accounting in the Guadalquivir River Basin, (2014-2015). University of Cordoba (Spain).
• European Project. Establishment of a Peer Review Mechanism for the Improvement of Water Framework Directive Implementation, (2015).

Most relevant Peer-reviewed publications

Lozano, S. and Borrego-Marín, M.M. (2024). A metafrontier network DEA approach for water usage efficiency assessment in the light of SDG target 6.4, Environmental Science & Policy 160:103857 doi: 10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103857

Borrego-Marín, M.M., Berbel, J., Gómez-Limón, J.A. and Villanueva, A.J. (2021). Factores habilitantes y limitantes para el desarrollo empresarial de la Bioeconomía Circular. Análisis empírico para el caso de Andalucía, C3-BIOECONOMY: Circular and Sustainable Bioeconomy 2:19-36
doi: 10.21071/c3b.vi2.13468

Borrego-Marín, M.M., Expósito, A. and Berbel, J. (2020). A simplified hydro-economic model of Guadalquivir river basin for analysis of water-pricing scenarios, Water 12(7):1879
doi: 10.3390/w12071879

Delgado-Serrano, M.M. and Borrego-Marín, M.M. (2020). Drivers of innovation in groundwater governance. The links between the social and the ecological systems. Land Use Policy. 91:104368 doi: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.104368

Berbel, J., Borrego-Marín, M.M., Expósito, A., Giannoccaro G., Montilla-López N.M.and Roseta-Palma C. (2019). Analysis of irrigation water tariffs and taxes in Europe, Water Policy 21(4):806-825 doi: 10.2166/wp.2019.197

Berbel, J., Expósito, A. and Borrego-Marín , M.M. (2019). Conciliation of competing uses and stakeholder rights to groundwater: An evaluation of Fuencaliente aquifer (Spain) 35(5):830-846 International Journal of Water Resources Development doi: 10.1080/07900627.2018.1491392

Borrego-Marín, M.M., Berbel, J. (2019). Cost-benefit analysis of irrigation modernization in Guadalquivir River Basin. Agricultural Water Management. 212(2019):416-423 doi: 10.1016/j.agwat.2018.08.032

Gutiérrez-Martín, C., Borrego-Marín, M.M. and Berbel, J. (2017). The economic analysis of water use in the Water Framework Directive based on the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting for Water: A case study of the Guadalquivir river basin, Water 9(3):180 doi: 10.3390/w9030180

Borrego-Marín, M.M., Gutiérrez-Martín, C. and Berbel, J. (2016). Estimation of cost recovery ratio for water services based on the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting for Water. Water Resources Management 30(2):767-783 doi: 10.1007/s11269-015-1189-2

Borrego-Marín, M.M., Gutiérrez-Martín, C. and Berbel, J. (2016). Water productivity under drought conditions estimated using SEEA-Water. Water 8(4):138 doi: 10.3390/w8040138

Borrego-Marín, M.M. and Riesgo, L. (2016). Measuring the Sustainability of Water Plans in Inter-Regional Spanish River Basins. Water 8(8):342 doi: 10.3390/w8080342