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Rainwater harvesting, alternative to the water supply in Indian urban areas : The case of Ahmedabad in Gujarat

Amiraly, Akil; Prime, Nathalie; Singh, J.P. - HAL - 2004

Water scarcity is a characteristic of north-western states of India, such as Gujarat. Over time, the continuous increase of the population as well as the financial, administrative and technical deficiencies of the new supply system have lead to the deterioration of the water service in the city....

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Standards Applied to Water Use : An Attempt to Build up Dynamic Indicators

Buchs, Arnaud - HAL - 2008

Climate change, demographic concentration, new needs, sustainable development etc. are many examples of uncontrolled mutations in space and time, which impact on the degree of satisfaction of water needs in the world, and which call for a new analysis of the water issue. This new perspective, in...

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Water Crisis and Water Scarcity as Social Constructions. The Case of Water Use in Almeria (Andalusia, Spain)

Buchs, Arnaud - HAL - 2010

This article presents our research on a well-documented stylized fact : the social construction of water scarcity. Starting with the hypothesis that the study of water use standards offers a relevant frame of reference to deal with scarcity, this proposai suggests that water use is directly...

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Research and training in the Olifants and Limpopo basins of southern Africa

Rollin, D.; Morardet, S.; Lévite, H.; Sally, H. - HAL - 2006

L'article décrit la participation des chercheurs français, détachés à l'Institut international de la gestion des ressources en eau (IWMI) par le ministère français de l'Agriculture, aux travaux concernant les bassins hydrographiques de référence Olifants et Limpopo, entrepris dans le...

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Variable time scales, agent-based models, and role-playing games: The PIEPLUE river basin management game

Barreteau, O.; Abrami, G. - HAL - 2007

This article presents a specific association of a role-playing game (RPG) and an agent-based model (ABM) aimed at dealing with a large range of time scales. Applications to the field of natural resource management lead one to consider the short time scale of resource use in practice at the same...

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Happiness, habits and high rank: Comparisons in economic and social life

Clark, Andrew E. - HAL - 2008

, rendering conclusions regarding well-being policy less straightforward. …

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Is a public regulation of food price volatility feasible in Africa? An arch approach in Kenya

D'Hôtel, Elodie Maître; Cotty, Tristan Le; Jayne, Thomas - HAL - 2012

The 2007-2008 food crisis and current food price swings led economists to re-evaluate the potential for policy … policy to lower food price volatility does not depend on the nature of the policy instrument only, but also on the … tradition of public intervention, and by the persistence of highly volatile prices. The consistency of the policy use appears to …

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A consensus model of political decision-making

Swart, Harrie De; Eklund, Patrik; Rusinowska, Agnieszka - HAL - 2008

government is deﬁned as a pair consisting of a winning coalition and a policy supported by this coalition, where a policy … allow the criteria to be of unequal importance to a party. These criteria concern winning coalitions and policy issues …

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Acceptability factors to transport policy changes

Raux, Charles; Souche, Stéphanie - HAL - 2000

The authors have set out an analytical framework of the acceptability of pricing changes in the transport sector. This framework combines the dimensions of economic efficiency (to manage the demand efficiently), territorial equity (guarantee of accessibility), horizontal equity (user-pays...

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Around the World of cotton issues in ten months: a guide for navigation

Fok, Michel; Gourirand, Monica-Barbro - HAL - 2008

Cotton sectors are facing many issues which are quite well reported by online newspapers. Many issues are internal to the running of cotton sectors. They are little related to the international issue of market distortion, pertaining to the "cotton file" of the WTO. A number of issues impeding...

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