Water scarcity is an increasingly recurring problem for irrigated agriculture in Mediterranean regions. It is, therefore, necessary to establish technical and financial measures to enable irrigators to deal with this problem. This study presents a new index-based drought insurance scheme in an irrigation district in the Jucar river basin in Spain, a highly regulated water system. Three insurance scheme options were evaluated and, the values of the fair risk premiums, the maximum compensation, and the deductible franchise were established. These insurance schemes were designed in agreement with the preexisting drought system operating rules to reduce moral hazard and adverse selection. Risk-reducing and effective evaluation methods were used to determine the insurance coverage’s viability for irrigators: standard deviation gross margin, minimum gross margin, and RMSL. The proposed insurances were also evaluated using synthetic hydrological time series generated with a stochastic ARMA model through a basin-wide water resource simulation model developed in the DSS Shell AQUATOOL. Financial indicators, such as the basis risk and claim ratio were applied to analyze the economic feasibility for insurance companies. The results show that a suitable and efficient option is an early-bird contract combined with a trigger of emergency or alert state in a multi-year contract. This type of specialized insurance helps to fill the existing gap in traditional insurance schemes for irrigated crops and offered additional coverage to farmers under drought and water scarcity conditions.
En el número 16 de la revista Forma y Función (2003, pp. 310-323) publicamos una reseña del libro Ecrits de linguistique générale [ELG] de Ferdinand de Saussure. En cierta forma la reseña tenía un matiz apologético e invitaba a una lectura diferente de la obra del ginebrino tomando distancia del Curso de lingüística general [CLG], publicado por primera vez en 1916 y destacando además que dicho libro no había sido escrito por Ferdinand de Saussure. La novedad que aparentemente ofrecían los ELG se apoyaba en la idea [excluyente y polarizada] de que constituían de manera exclusiva el corpus auténtico y original de los propios escritos deSaussure sobre la lingüística general. Al volver a la reseña después de trece años, entendemos por qué la primera parte (pp. 310-315) se consagró y en ese momento no se pensó así al CLG: su existencia validaba los ELG y no al contrario como podía creerse (cf. Trabant, 2005). Y una manera de entender los Escritos es considerando las particularidades editoriales del Curso. No es el único camino pero vale la pena recorrerlo.
Con ocasión de la celebración de los treinta y tres años de la Facultad de Educación, hemos decidido reunir datos, recuerdos y reflexiones sobre una instancia académica-administrativa que tanto le ha aportado a la constitución interna de la Universidad Surcolombiana como a la región en donde se desarrolla. Es claro que estos apuntes no aspiran a ser un tratado histórico; su pretensión es más bien aportar referencias puntuales de cada uno de los momentos que ha vivido la Facultad.
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