Showing 1 - 10 of 50
Water resources are unevenly spread in China. Especially the basins of the Yellow, Hui and Hai rivers in the North are …. Using a computable general equilibrium model this study estimates the impact of the project on the economy of China and the … China’s capital investment in infrastructure for the water South-North water transfer project is analyzed. Finally, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385373
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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008489614
irrigation is restricted to only a few areas, since most of the agricultural water is derived from surface resources. On the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005423071
During the past century, large hydraulic infrastructures have been considered as the most effective tools for increasing water supply and rationalise water management. According to this approach, large infrastructures are seen as catalysts for territorial development and economic progress. More...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005392541
and the government aimed at increasing community participation in the design and management of irrigation canals. The case …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385481
water allocation, irrigation policies, and climate change, among others water related issues. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010584500
We characterize how the size distribution of plants, within narrowly defined industries, changed in Italy over a ten-year time span, and relate this to the stock of civic capital at the provincial level. Data on plant size come from the 1991 and 2001 Italian censuses. Civic capital turns out to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904924
In essence, any international environmental agreement (IEA) implies cooperation of a form or another. The paper seeks … for logical foundations of this. It first deals with how the need for cooperation derives from the public good aspect of … the externalities involved, as well as with where the source of cooperation lies in cooperative game theory. In either …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005385392
budget period at a time. Under the two-part plan: (i) China, India, and other developing countries accept targets at Business … cooperation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009320996
The evolution of large-scale cooperation among genetic strangers is a fundamental unanswered question in the social … the endogenous enforcement of cooperation. Insofar as strongly reciprocal players are willing to costly sanction defectors …, cooperation flourishes. However, experimental evidence unambiguously indicates that not only defection and strong reciprocity, but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009321000