Groundwater is a vital yet threatened resource in much of South Asia. This paper develops a model of groundwater … transactions under payoff uncertainty arising from unpredictable fluctuations in groundwater availability during the agricultural … 2 percent and accounts for less than 50 percent of all transactions costs in groundwater markets, it has a sizeable …

of South Asia's groundwater resources in the face of climate change and increasing reliance on the resource by dependent … aid reforms of groundwater governance and, thus, greater sustainability of groundwater; in addition, these management … socioeconomic settings with reference to key groundwater challenges. They provide insights and potential solutions, tailored to …

myopic competitive (common) exploitation of groundwater resources to a long-term efficient and sustainable allocation. A … groundwater) and (b) a social planner's model (representing the cooperative and sustainable allocation). The deviation of their … equilibrium state of this system. The two models are then applied in a typical rural area of Greece where groundwater is the only …

Groundwater currently provides 98 percent of all the drinking water supply in Bangladesh. Groundwater is found …. Yet, no national-scale, multi-hazard groundwater risk maps currently exist enabling water resource managers and policy … makers to identify areas that are vulnerable to public health. This paper develops, for the first time, groundwater risk maps …