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Dams are essential for water storage and hydropower generation, but change river flow patterns and endanger local … regarding installed hydropower capacity and dam location instead of the standard economic assumptions of such costs. Our results …
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that more educated women complied more with the program's water disinfection training, highlighting that even simple, low …-cost technologies require final users' compliance ("the last mile") to be effective. In the context of growing water scarcity …
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We study adoption by more than 150,000 households of an optional transitional water tariff implemented in the South …
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similar hydropower potential. Until mid-century, the availability of cheap local power from hydroelectric dams conveyed an …
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This paper presents a meta-analysis of variations in price and income elasticities of residential water demand … policy-making. It is also crucial for effective water demand management. We focus on theapplication of statistical methods to … empirical estimates of the price and income elasticity ofresidential water demand vary to such considerable extents. The set of …
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One of the policy options to increase the efficiency in the provision of scarce water resources is a reduction in … transaction costs in water chains by developing integrated forms of water management. Integrated water management in case of river … addressing the entire water chain, (4) integrated strategies regarding all water functions in relation to other relevant spatial …
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In this paper we consider the problem of sharing water from a river among a group of agents (countries, cities, firms …) located along the river. The benefit of each agent depends on the amount of water consumed by the agent. An allocation of the … water among the agents is efficient when it maximizes the total benefits. To sustain an efficient water allocation, the …
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theory in water management: People are reluctant to monetary transfers unrelated to water prices and game theoretic solutions … reduces the computational burden. Furthermore, water prices and property rights result from exploiting the Second Welfare …
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