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Agriculture, Water Resources and Water Policies in Italy

Massarutto, Antonio - 1999

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 … analysis of the most important issues and ongoing policies. We show that the link between agriculture and groundwater is but …

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An economic drought management index to evaluate water institutions' performance under uncertainty and climate change

Iglesias, Eva; Garrido, Alberto; Gómez, Almudena - 2001

served by the supply system. An empirical application of EDMIs is performed for two irrigation districts in Andalusia …

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Discounting environmental effects in project appraisal

Percoco, Marco - 2002

The aim of this paper is to present an alternative methodology for discounting far distant future externalities genereted by an investment project: time-declining discount rates. First I present the experimental evidence on individuals' time-inconsistency. Second I consider the theoretical...

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The tradable permits approach to protecting the commons: What have we learned?

Tietenberg, Tom - 2002

This essay reviews the implementation experience with three main applications of tradable permit systems: air pollution control, water supply and fisheries management. Opening with a brief summary of the theory behind these programs and both the economic and environmental consequences...

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Environmental effects of consumption: An approach using DEA and cost sharing

Keiding, Hans - 2002

In the paper we propose an to evaluation of the environmental effects of consumption activities. The approach consists of two steps, namely (1) assignment of environmental effects to consumption activities, for which we propose to use the methods of (multidimensional) cost sharing, and (2) a...

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An option approach to water delegation

Clark, Ephraim A.; Mondello, Gérard - 1997

The problem that we address in this paper stems from the trend to delegation in the water management field. The problem that we address refers to the municipality's negotiating disadvantage in the face of some cartelized water management. We discuss the specific characteristics of the delegation...

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Water scarcity: Institutional change, water markets and privatization

Dosi, Cesare; Easter, William K. - 2000

A number of countries face water shortages because they need to make some basic changes in their water management. Policy options do exist. Most of them share the objective of treating water and water services as an economic good, by regulating private inefficient appropriation of open-access...

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Applications of Negotiation Theory to Water Issues

Carraro, Carlo; Marchiori, Carmen; Sgobbi, Alessandra - 2005

The purpose of the paper is to review the applications of non-cooperative bargaining theory to water related issues - which fall in the category of formal models of negotiation. The ultimate aim is that to, on the one hand, identify the conditions under which agreements are likely to emerge, and...

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Climate Change and the Stability of Water Allocation Agreements

Ansink, Erik; Ruijs, Arjan - 2007

We analyse agreements on river water allocation between riparian countries. Besides being efficient, water allocation agreements need to be stable in order to be effective in increasing the efficiency of water use. In this paper, we assess the stability of water allocation agreements, using a...

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Water Consumption and Long-Run Urban Development: The Case of Milan

Nosvelli, Mario; Musolesi, Antonio - 2005

Analyses of long run consumption series are rare in literature. We study the evolution of water consumption in Milan in the twentieth century. The objective is twofold: on one side, the univariate analysis tries both to assess the impact of relevant socio-economic and environmental changes on...

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