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We examine how scarcity pricing can be used to assist with urban water demand management in Sydney in low rainfall … periods using an estimated aggregate daily water demand function. Modelling shows that current water supplies and water prices … are inadequate to prevent Sydney reaching critically low water storage levels should there be a low rainfall period …
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provide a comprehensive view on the status and functioning of the Water Users' Associations in the State. It is argued that … to WUAs has not taken place, as most of the important functions like assessment, collection of water charges, sanctioning …
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Overtime per capita water availability in the world as well as in Pakistan has been declining. Water sources have … depleted and become polluted therefore, now water has become a scarce good. Resultantly, the inadequate water supply … to analyze the magnitude of awareness, perception, practices, and demand for safe drinking water. The study further …
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some policy questions that confront China, as a major resource-procuring economy seeking resource security through foreign …
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The paper briefly sets out factors behind Chinese demand for iron ore imports and the main features of China’s medium term resource consumption growth path. It then outlines the potential of major iron ore export countries to meet China’s medium term iron ore import demands. The...
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economy and political power. In the last twenty five years the economy of China, a nation of 1.3 billion, has grown by a … almost half of the world output and more than half world trade, with China accounting for half of that. In 2010, Chinaâ …
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This article analyses the motivation and impact of the 2009 intervention of the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA …
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€™s Republic of China (PRC), one of the important major assembly bases, confirms the existence of international production sharing … study also points out the importance of the People’s Republic of China and Thailand as assembly bases. It concludes that …
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-level export performance in Asia’s super exporter—The People’s Republic of China (PRC). While early studies suggested that …
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. Recent findings also indicate that imbalances between the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the United States are a …
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