applied to analyze welfare and distribution effects of changing water prices in the Metropolitan Region of Sao Paulo. Results … between revenues for the water company and income distribution. Even though pro-poor price systems may not be as good for …, however, may have financial consequences for the water companies …

Water is a multidimensional issue, involving water availability, access to freshwater, spatial and temporal … other aspects. The water security approach manages such complexity and proposes a comprehensive view of human security in … relation to the water-related issues. Consequently, the solutions developed in order to face this multi-faceted concept should …

on the international competition between firms that produce energy-intensive goods. The second model highlights the role … of a globally integrated carbon-energy market. We calculate formulas for the leakage rates in both models and, through … leakage. We extend this model with endogenous energy-saving technology and international technology spillovers. This feature …

the market a decisive role in allocating resources. To have the market to play that role, getting the energy prices right … is crucial because it sends clear signals to both producers and consumers of energy. While the overall trend of China …'s energy pricing reform since 1984 has been moving away from the pricing completely set by the central government in the …

Future energy demand will be affected by changes in prices and income, but also by other factors, like temperature … annual regional demand for energy goods. Combining estimates of temperature elasticities with scenarios of future climate … change, it is possible to assess variations in energy demand induced (directly) by the global warming. We use this …

This paper presents an empirical study of energy demand, in which demand for a series of energy goods (Gas, Oil …-linearities and discontinuities emerge, making it necessary to distinguish between different countries, seasons, and energy sources …

This paper is a first attempt to investigate the effect of climate on the demand for different energy vectors from … on key consumption goods and primary factors such as energy vectors. This paper addresses these issues by means of a … demand of energy vectors as consumption goods and on their demand as primary factors. In general, residential demand responds …

spillovers between the energy and the non-energy sector, we show that the combination between environmental and knowledge …