huji Department of Agricultural Economics and Management

Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Iddo Kan

Iddo Kan

List of Publications

Chapters in Books

  • Letey, J., Cardon G.E. and Kan, I. (2007), Irrigation efficiency and uniformity, p. 119-132. In: Lascano, R.J. and Sojka, R.E. (ed.), Irrigation of Agricultural Crops, 2nd ed. Agronomy monograph no 30, ASA-CSSA-SSSA Publishers, Madison, USA.

Articles in Refereed Journals

  • Banin, A., Han, F.X., Kan, I. and Cicelsky, A. (1997). Acidic volatiles and the Mars soil. J. Geophys. Res. 102(E6): 13,341-13,356.
  • Carlton, C.A., Albert, F.G., Combie, J., Banin, A., Yablekovitch, Y., Kan, I., Bondar, R.J., Hamilton, V.E., Jolliff, B.L., Kuebler, K., Wang, A., Lindstrom, D.J., Morris, P.A., V. Morris, R., Murray, R.W., Nyquist, L.E., Simpson, P.D.PI, Steele A. and Symes, S.J. (1999). Effects of sterilizing doses of Gamma radiation on Mars analog rocks and minerals, J. Geophys. Res. 104(E11): 27,043-27,066.
  • Ayalon, O. and Kan, I. 2001. The influence of solid waste treatment on land utilization. Karka 51: 130-153 (Hebrew).
  • Kan, I., Schwabe, K.A. and Knapp, K.C. (2002). Microeconomics of irrigation with saline water. J. Agr. Resour. Econ. 27(1): 16-39.
  • Kan, I. (2003). Effects of drainage-salinity evolution on irrigation management. Water Resour. Res. 39(12): 1377-1388.
  • Letey, J., Birkle, D., Jury, W.A and Kan, I. (2003). Model describes sustainable long-term recycling of saline agricultural drainage water. California Agriculture 57(1): 24-27.
  • Feinerman, E., Finkelshtain, I. and Kan, I. (2004). On a political solution to the NIMBY conflict. Am. Econ. Rev. 94(1): 369-381.
  • Kan, I. and Finkelshtain, I. (2004). Connections between political economics and environmental justice. Studies in Natural Resources and Environmental Management 2(1): 71-82 (Hebrew).
  • Schwabe, K.A., Kan, I. and Knapp, K.C. (2006). Drainwater Management for Salinity Mitigation in Irrigated Agriculture. Am. J. Agr. Econ. 88(1): 133-149.
  • Kan, I., Kimhi, A. and Lerman, Z. (2006). Farm Output, Non-Farm Income, and Commercialization in Rural Georgia. Elect. J. Agr. Dev. Econ. 3(2): 276-286.
  • Federman, R., Kan, I. and Ayalon, O. (2007). Recycling of organic solid waste in Israel – environmental and economic aspects. Studies in Natural Resources and Environmental Management 5: 37-52 (Hebrew).
  • Gogodze, J., Kan, I. and Kimhi, A. (2008). Land Reform and Rural Well Being in Georgia: 1996-2003. Projections 7: 26-41.
  • Kan, I. (2008). Yield Quality and Irrigation with Saline Water under Environmental Limitations: The Case of Processing Tomatoes in California. Agr. Econ. 38: 57-66.
  • Kan, I., Haim, D., Rapaport-Rom, M. and Shechter, M. (2009). Environmental Amenities and Optimal Agricultural Land Use: The Case of Israel. Ecological Economics 68(6):1893-1898.
  • Kan, I., Leizarowitz, A. and Tsur, Y. (2009). Dynamic-Spatial Management of Coastal Aquifers. Optim. Control Appl. Meth. (forthcoming)

Scientific Publications in Local Journals and Reports

  • Environmental Management & Consulting LTD (EMC). (1996). Externalities and direct costs of waste disposal methods. A Report for the Israeli Ministries of Finance, Environment, National Infrastructure and Internal Affairs (Hebrew, Editor of the report).
  • Kan, I., (1999). Economic Aspects. in Evra, Y. and Dov, M. (eds.), ISO 14000: A Guidebook for the Factory, Environmental Management & Consulting LTD (EMC), Manufacturers Association of Israel and the Ministry of the Environment. (Hebrew).
  • Schwabe, K.A., Knapp, K.C. and Kan, I. (2001). The economics of integrated drain water management in the Central Valley. in Salinity and Drainage Annual Report 2000-2001, UC Center for Water Resources, Riverside, California. pp: 97-104.
  • Kan, I, Rapaport-Rom, M. and Shechter, M. (2007). Assessing Climate Change Impacts on Water, Land-Use and Economic Return in Agriculture. Social Science Research Network (SSRN), Agricultural & Natural Resource Economics, Vol 11, No. 67: December 17, 2007.

Conference Proceedings

  • Kadishi, N., Kan. I., Shechter, M. and Zeitouni, N. Changes in rainfall-distribution patterns: The impact on agriculture in Israel. ICCAP WS, February 17-18 2005, Kyoto, Japan.
  • Gogodze, J., Kan, I. and Kimhi, A. Development of individual farming in Georgia: Descriptive analysis and comparisons. Privatization, Liberalization, and the Emergence of Private Farms in Georgia and Other Former Soviet Countries; An International Workshop, June 21-22, 2005, Tibilisi, Georgia.
  • Kan, I. and Kimhi, A. Land reform, cropland allocation decisions, and crop yields in Georgia. Privatization, Liberalization, and the Emergence of Private Farms in Georgia and Other Former Soviet Countries; An International Workshop, June 21-22, 2005, Tibilisi, Georgia.
  • Kan, I. Ayalon, O. and Federman, R. Economic analysis of compost production in Israel, ISWA annual Congress 2006. October 1-5, 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Active Participation in Scholarly Conferences, Colloquium Talks and other Invited Addresses

  • The 6th Occasional California Workshop on Environmental and Resource Economics, Economics of integrated drainwater management in the western San Joaquin Valley, with Schwabe, K.A. and Knapp, K.C., October 26-27, 2001, Sacramento, California.
  • Solid Waste Logistics Workshop; The Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, Solid waste logistics, with Evra, Y., November 11, 2001, Jerusalem, Israel.
  • UC Annual Salinity/Drainage Conference, New drainage disposal strategies at the regional scale: A preliminary economic analysis, with Schwabe, K.A. and Knapp, K.C., March 26-27, 2002, Sacramento, California.
  • 2nd World Congress of Environmental and Natural Resource Economists, Economics of integrated drainwater management, with Schwabe, K.A. and Knapp, K.C., June 24-27, 2002, Monterey, California.
  • The Israel Society for Ecology & Environmental Quality Sciences, 32th Annual Conference Solid waste logistics, with Evra, Y., December 17-18, 2002, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
  • The Economics of Water and Agriculture; An International Workshop in Honor of Professor Yoav Kislev, Drainage salinity development and agricultural management, December 18-20, 2002, Rehovot, Israel.
  • The 2nd Israeli-Palestinian-International Conference, Economic assessment of impacts and adaptability to regional climate change: Water & agriculture, with Shechter, M., Haim, D., Kadishi, N. and Zeitouni, N., October 10-14, 2004, Antalya, Turkey.
  • Land Use and Land Cover Change (LUCC) Workshop: Integrated Assessment of the Land System: The Future of Land Use, Climate-change effects on open-space land use in Israel (poster session), with Shechter, M. and Azaria, O. October 30-28, 2004, Amsterdam, Holland.
  • ICCAP Workshop, Economic assessments of climate change impact on agriculture in a semi-arid region, with Shechter M., February 17-18, 2005, Kyoto, Japan.
  • The Israel Society for Ecology & Environmental Quality Sciences, 8th International Conference, Climate change effects on the vegetative agriculture in Israel (poster session), with Rapaport-Rom, M. and Shechter, M., May 30 – June 1, 2005, Rehovot, Israel.
  • The Israeli Economic Association, 21th Annual Conference, Climate change effects on agricultural land use in Israel, with Rapoport-Rom, M. and Shechter, M. May 23, 2005, Ma'aleh Hahamisha, Israel.
  • The Israeli Economic Association, 22th Annual Conference, Economic analysis of compost production in Israel, with Ayalon, O. and Federman, R., May 30, 2006, Ma'aleh Hahamisha, Israel.
  • Third World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists, Economic analysis of climate-change impacts on agricultural profitability and land use: The case of Israel, with Rapoport-Rom, M. and Shechter, M., July 3-7, 2006, Kyoto, Japan.
  • ISWA annual Congress 2006, Economic analysis of compost production in Israel, with Ayalon, O. and Federman, R., October 1-5, 2006, Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • 15th European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE) Annual Conference, Economic analysis of climate-change impacts on agricultural profitability and land use: The case of Israel, with Rapoport-Rom, M. and Shechter, M., June 27-30, 2007, Thessaloniki, Greece.
  • Workshop on Understanding Relations in Nature and Economy: An Application to the Rural Countryside, Agricultural amenities and optimal irrigation and land use, with Haim, D., Rapaport-Rom, M. and Shechter, M., May 31 – June 2, 2007, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
  • Bi-National workshop Israel – The Netherlands: Management of Conflicts between Nature Conservation and Agriculture, Agricultural amenities and optimal land use, with Haim, D., Rapaport-Rom, M. and Shechter, M., September 7-8, 2007, The Hague, The Netherlands.
  • 16th European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE) Annual Conference, Agricultural amenities and optimal land use – the case of Israel, with Haim, D., Rapaport-Rom, M. and Shechter, M., June 25-28, 2008, Gutenberg, Sweden.
  • The ENSEMBLES project, EC FP6, Workshop on socio-economics drivers of climate change, Impact assessment of climate change on agriculture: Econometric-process analysis under partial equilibrium, with Kimhi, A. and Shraberman, K., Ca’ Foscari University Venice, Italy, 11 – 12 December 2008.

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