An important conclusion from the literature on hydropower is that if there are no other constraints than the available … water reservoirs for a year, and operating costs are ignored, the competitive (and socially optimal) outcome is … hydropower being non-concave. This non-concavity can be caused by short-run capacity limits either on exports and imports of …

equipped with hydropower generation facilities. The methodology is applied to the Lower Ebro River in Spain. The results show …

analyse the welfare effects of these reforms in Italy, with particular attention to water and energy goods. The first step is …

of water pollution deriving from mismanaged drilling and fracturing, absence of adequate regulation framework and …

by the utilities after two decades of reforms? We focus on electricity, gas, water, telephone in the EU 15 Member States …

Water resources are facing several stresses in terms of quantity and quality. These pressures are closely related to …, pollutant emissions, and water /wastewater treatment, among others. Considering the critical role that water plays for … agricultural production, any shock in water availability will have great implications for agricultural production, and through …

The model simulates on a 20-year horizon, a first phase of increase in the water resource availability taking into … (demographic growth). The results show that marginal cost water pricing (with a subsidy ensuring the survival of the water … increase. Unemployment drops and the sectors of rain rice, market gardening and drinking water distribution grow. In contrast …

The purpose of the paper is to review the applications of non-cooperative bargaining theory to water related issues …-cooperative bargaining models applied to water allocation problems found in the literature. Particular attention will be given to those …

Water resources are unevenly spread in China. Especially the basins of the Yellow, Hui and Hai rivers in the North are … rather dry. To increase the supply of water in these basins, the South-to-North Water Transfer project (SNWT) was launched …-to-North water transfer project to increase water supply. In the first group of scenarios additional supply implies productivity …

This paper provides an overview of the Italian water management system, with particular reference to the links between … agriculture and water resources, and emphasis on underground resources. Our objective is mainly descriptive at this level …; nonetheless, we try to evaluate patterns of interaction between agriculture and water resources policy from the point of view of …