Water is a multidimensional issue, involving water availability, access to freshwater, spatial and temporal … other aspects. The water security approach manages such complexity and proposes a comprehensive view of human security in … relation to the water-related issues. Consequently, the solutions developed in order to face this multi-faceted concept should …

applied to analyze welfare and distribution effects of changing water prices in the Metropolitan Region of Sao Paulo. Results … between revenues for the water company and income distribution. Even though pro-poor price systems may not be as good for …, however, may have financial consequences for the water companies …

Many water allocation agreements in transboundary river basins are inherently unstable. Due to stochastic river flow …, agreements may be broken in case of drought. The objective of this paper is to analyse whether water allocation agreements can be … self-enforcing. An agreement is modelled as the outcome of bargaining game on river water allocation. Given this agreement …

The current Water Abstraction License (WAL) regime in Italy is no longer flexible enough to cope with the challenges … of bottom-up conflict resolution mechanisms at a basin scale; a water pricing scheme that does not reflect the cost of … water conveyance and use, and does not encourage efficient water allocation; and the lack of a central WAL register, which …

planning in the field of sustainable water management within the Mediterranean Basin by establishing a network between the … theoretical potential as tools for the identification of optimal water resource management regimes in the Mediterranean basin …, thus helping policy makers (PMs) to bring the principles of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) into practice …

This paper deals with the comparative analysis of different policy options for water resources management in three … implementation and is supported by the use of three different software packages dealing with water allocation budget, water quality …

We present an axiomatic approach to the reallocation of water rights among economic sectors. Reallocation may be … appropriate when the current schedule of water allocation is considered unfair. Our proposed approach is based on the combination … of initial water rights, sectors' claims to water, and an exogenous ordering of these sectors. We apply sharing rules …

analytical reflections are build upon a gap between the European Water Framework and the Flood Directives that, despite their … many interconnections and commonalities, differ in the focus (or lack of) on underlying causal factors. Thus, the Water …

This article aims to investigate some aspects of the social process related to water resources management and gender … relations. Given that gender and water management are interrelated issues exposed to a growing attention at the international … Technology for Sustainable Water Resources Management in the Mediterranean), a Co-ordination Action funded by the European …

We analyse agreements on river water allocation between riparian countries. Besides being efficient, water allocation … agreements need to be stable in order to be effective in increasing the efficiency of water use. In this paper, we assess the … stability of water allocation agreements, using a game theoretic model. We consider the effects of climate change and the choice …