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We analyse the redistribution of a resource among agents who have claims to the resource and who are ordered linearly. A well known example of this particular situation is the river sharing problem. We exploit the linear order of agents to transform the river sharing problem to a sequence of...
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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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quantity of infrastructure and counts the highest shares of population living in poverty and without access to food, safe water … nexus. In order to give concrete insights to policy makers, this paper proposes a pragmatic approach to the nexus that … energy solutions. This is in line with a view of the nexus as a way of thinking, which can apply both at the level of policy …
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We analyse river sharing games in which a set of agents located along a river shares the available water. Using coalition theory, we find that the potential benefits of water trade may not be sufficient to make all agents in the river cooperate and acknowledge property rights as a prerequisite...
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distribution of resources, competition among its uses, ecosystems conservation, climate-related disasters and risks and several … security. Exploring such a relationship is truly important in order to help policy-makers in the development of adaptation and …
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Climate change is a pressing issue, affecting the lives of all people across the world. However, poorer and excluded communities are usually more affected, especially in low-income countries. Among them, women but particularly indigenous groups in rural areas seem to bear the bulk of the impacts...
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The approach of using existing data on economic values of local ecosystem services for an assessment of these values at a larger geographical scale can be called “scaling up”. In a scaling-up exercise, economic values from a particular study site are transferred to another geographical...
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