The Productivity Commission released its final research report into 'Rural Water Use and the Environment: The Role of … the efficient use of water, including for environmental purposes. The Commission suggests that governments should give … greater recognition to the integrated nature of water resources and use markets to more efficiently allocate water among …

Water scarcity has emerged as one of the major economic and environmental issues of this century. The Earth Summit (Rio … green economy policies in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication. The UN-Water Status Report on the … Application of Integrated Approaches to the Development, Management and Use of Water Resources which was launched, during the …

This article examines the phenomenon of local resistance to regulation by instruments in the water sector. Governance … observation of misuse of performance indicators by local actors in urban water systems in Europe. We assume that resistances have …

explicit the impact of water quality on production benefits and suggest a solution for sharing the gains of optimal pollution …